Dr Luigi Cao Pinna

  • Research Associate (Statistics)

Biography

Undergraduate studies in Biology from Roma Tre University. Master's degree in biodiversity and ecosystem management from Roma Tre University that led to a PhD in studying Patterns of alien species invasion in Mediterranean Europe. During my PhD, I explored the species distribution modelling technique and was particularly interested in niche shifts for alien species. 

 

Research interests

I am a Research Associate on the GALLANT project applying advanced statistical machine learning techniques to help Glasgow become a thriving and ecologically sustainable city. 

My main research interests are: 

  • Machine learning techniques and specifically sentiment analyses
  • Niche shift studies
  • Ecology of alien species 

Research groups

Publications

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2024

Cao Pinna, L. , Miller, C. and Scott, M. (2024) Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Hidden Markov Models to Identify Public Perception of Sustainability in Social Media Data. In: Developments in Statistical Modelling, 38th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (IWSM 2024), Durham, UK, 14-19 Jul 2024, pp. 14-20. ISBN 9783031657221 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-65723-8_3)

Cao Pinna, L. , Gallien, L., Pollock, L. J., Axmanová, I., Chytrý, M., Malavasi, M., Acosta, A. T. R., Campos, J. A. and Carboni, M. (2024) Plant invasion in Mediterranean Europe: current hotspots and future scenarios. Ecography, 2024(5), e07085. (doi: 10.1111/ecog.07085)

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Articles

Cao Pinna, L. , Gallien, L., Pollock, L. J., Axmanová, I., Chytrý, M., Malavasi, M., Acosta, A. T. R., Campos, J. A. and Carboni, M. (2024) Plant invasion in Mediterranean Europe: current hotspots and future scenarios. Ecography, 2024(5), e07085. (doi: 10.1111/ecog.07085)

Conference Proceedings

Cao Pinna, L. , Miller, C. and Scott, M. (2024) Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Hidden Markov Models to Identify Public Perception of Sustainability in Social Media Data. In: Developments in Statistical Modelling, 38th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (IWSM 2024), Durham, UK, 14-19 Jul 2024, pp. 14-20. ISBN 9783031657221 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-65723-8_3)

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Prior publications

Article

Flavio Marzialetti, Giacomo Grosso, Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta, Marco Malavasi, Luigi Cao Pinna, Marcelo Sternberg, Sharad Kumar Gupta, Giuseppe Brundu, Maria Laura Carranza (2025) Dunes under attack: untangling the effects of landscape changes on Iceplant invasion (Carpobrotus spp., Aizoaceae) in Mediterranean coasts NeoBiota Crossref. (doi: 10.3897/neobiota.98.132805)

Martina D'Agostino et al. (2024) Best practices, errors, and perspectives of half a century of plant translocation in Italy Conservation Biology Luigi Cao Pinna. ISSN 1523-1739 (doi: 10.1111/cobi.14233)

Silvia Giulio, Luigi Cao Pinna, Marta Carboni, Flavio Marzialetti, Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta, Emmanuel Garbolino, Tommaso Jucker (2022) Invasion dynamics and potential future spread of sea spurge across Australia’s coastal dunes Journal of Biogeography Crossref. (doi: 10.1111/jbi.14308)

Silvia Cascone, Marta Gaia Sperandii, Luigi Cao Pinna, Flavio Marzialetti, Maria Laura Carranza, Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta (2021) Exploring Temporal Trends of Plant Invasion in Mediterranean Coastal Dunes Sustainability Crossref. (doi: 10.3390/su132413946)

Luigi Cao Pinna et al. (2021) The biogeography of alien plant invasions in the Mediterranean Basin Journal of Vegetation Science Crossref. (doi: 10.1111/jvs.12980)

Giulio, S., Pinna, L.C., Carboni, M., Marzialetti, F., Rosario Acosta, A.T. (2021) Invasion success on European coastal dunes Plant Sociology Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 22801855 (doi: 10.3897/PLS2021581/02)

Bonari, G. et al. (2021) Shedding light on typical species: Implications for habitat monitoring Plant Sociology Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 22801855 (doi: 10.3897/pls2020581/08)

Scarparo, G., Wolton, R., Molfini, M., Cao Pinna, L., Di Giulio, A. (2020) Comparative morphology of myrmecophilous immature stages of European Microdon species (Diptera: Syrphidae): Updated identification key and new diagnostic characters Zootaxa Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 11755334 11755326 (doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.2.2)

Teaching

Semester 2

Data Analysis Skill (MSc)


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