Loris is a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
His Master’s degree dissertation dealt with the relation between morphological and genetic variability of two species of lizard inhabiting the Tuscan Archipelago (Italy).
His main interests concern conservation biology and biogeography of reptiles. His studies are mainly focused on how ecological conditions, especially within insular context, affect the adaptive and evolutionary dynamics of the species, using the lizards of the genus Podarcis as model organisms.