Bio
About
Simone Giachello is a Ph.D. naturalist and passionate nature photographer from Northern Italy, with a soft spot for herpetofauna and montane habitats.
Born in Milan, his love for nature has been strong since childhood but truly blossomed during his university years when he approached nature photography and began traveling around Italy, discovering a, for him, unexpected biodiversity. After completing his master’s degree in Natural Sciences, he couldn’t resist the call of the mountains and moved from the city to a village in the heart of the Bergamasque Alps, where he found his locus amoenus.
Researcher
Nature conservation has played a key role in shaping his career and life. Simone worked as a post-doc researcher in ecology and zoology at the University of Milan, where he studied how high-altitude ecosystems and amphibian populations are impacted by anthropogenic threats such as climate change, habitat degradation, and invasive species, with the aim of developing effective conservation strategies. He loves merging scientific research with hands-on field experience to raise awareness in the general public by showcasing the beauty of nature through photography and guided excursions and trips.
Nature Guide and Photographer
The love for nature always inspired Simone to share his enthusiasm with other people, so at the age of 24 he started working as a nature guide in the beautiful Danube Delta in Romania. Now, he is a certified guide collaborating with international travel agency and associations, organizing nature trips in several parts of the world. Simone is also a passionate photographer and enjoys documenting the species and the habitats he comes across during his travels. Once in a while, he is able to convice a jury that his pictures are somewhat good.
Explorer
His work and passion have taken him around Italy and the world, from the cave systems of Sardinia to the Sahel of Mauritania, from the snowy peaks of the Alps to the Arctic glaciers of the Svalbard archipelago, from the cloud forests of Costa Rica to the desert of Southern Morocco. Whether it’s a brief one-day excursion or a one-month expedition, he thrives on exploring remote areas in search of rare and elusive species but also loves to rediscover and appreciate the beauty of the most common ones we have right outside our door. Yet, what he cherishes most is not just finding the target species, but experiencing the immense variety of habitats that blanket our planet.
