Mattia is a quantitative marine ecologist specialising in the multiscale functioning of marine ecosystems and serves as a remote trophic modelling consultant for the Reef-Ocean Connectivity Knowledge Hub (ROCKNHub) at KAUST. Originally from Italy, he completed his B.Sc. at the University of Milan and M.Sc. at the Polytechnic University of Marche before pursuing a PhD at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research and the University of Bremen in Germany. From 2024 to 2026, he held a postdoctoral position at CRIOBE in Perpignan, France. His research bridges empirical data with advanced Bayesian modeling to resolve complex ecological patterns, driven by a strong commitment to Open Science, reproducible research, and open-source software development.