I’m an evolutionary biologist and herpetologist with a strong interest in population genetics, ecology and evolution. My research concerns the study of causes that lead to intraspecific variation, promoting the evolution of polymorphism and finally speciation. I use to address these tasks with integrative molecular and ecological approaches. The model organisms I mainly deal with are reptiles, particularly lizards, and amphibians, mainly frogs. My researches focus mainly on Palearctic taxa (lacertids, anguids, geckos and water frogs), but I work also on Malagasy (mantellids) and Eurasian (skinks) groups. During my scientific career I have been interested in various research projects concerning the evolutionary history and population genetic structure of several reptile and amphbian taxa, particularly directed towards the study of phylogeographic frameworks and intra-specific polymorphisms.