Andrea Pieroni

A dual citizen of Italy and Germany, Pieroni holds a Master of Pharmacy from the University of Pisa, Italy (1993), and a PhD in Medical Botany and Phytochemistry from the University of Bonn, Germany (1998). His current research focuses on perceptions and uses of plants for food and medicine among linguistic "minorities" in southern Italy, in the Balkans and among migrant communities (Eastern Europeans, South-Asians, Turks and Andeans) in Europe. Pieroni was the P.I. of the RUBIA Project (Circum-Mediterranean ethnobotanical and ethnographic heritage in traditional technologies, tools, and uses of wild and neglected plants for food, medicine, textiles, dying, and handicrafts), funded by the European Union in 2003-2005. His many publications include: Travelling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Migrations (with I. Vandebroek, 2007) and Eating and Healing: Traditional Food as Medicine (with L.L. Price, 2006). He has served as the Vice-President and President of the International Society of Ethnobiology (2008-2010) and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine.

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