I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management of UC Berkeley, affiliated with the EVO Lab. I started my Ph.D. in 2022 as a Fulbright Scholar. I earned my undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Florence (Italy) obtaining a BS in Forestry and Environmental Science; an MS in Reception of Migrants: Legislation, Social Integration Policies, and Health Issues; as well as an MS in Forest System Sciences and Technologies. My main research interests are Forest Health with special emphasis on interactions between plants and microbial communities.

My Expertise

• Forest Health
• Molecular Ecology
• Mycology
• RNA seq and gene expression
• Computational biology

My Updates

📌 I am expected to complete my Ph.D. in Spring 2027 and am actively seeking postdoctoral opportunities. If you work at the interface of forest health, microbial ecology, and plant-microbe interactions — let’s connect at edoardo_scali@berkeley.edu.

May 2026 🌺 This summer I will be in Hawaiʻi for two months conducting fieldwork on Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death (ROD), in collaboration with the USDA Forest Service and the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. I will be investigating the holobiont associated with healthy and diseased ʻōhiʻa trees across disease gradients.

May 2026 I have been awarded the Summer 2026 Research Funding Grant by the ESPM Department and the Vinciguerra Fund Award by the Fulbright Commission to support my dissertation research.

Apr 2025 I am honored to announce that the Robert Van Den Bosch Memorial Scholarship Fund will support my research for the Spring 2025 semester.

Spr. 2025 I have been awarded the William Carroll Smith Fellowship for the Spring 2025 semester.

Fall 2024 I have been awarded the Forestry Endowment Fund and the Dr. Glenn Gardner Hahn Endowment Fund fellowships for the Fall 2024 semester.