Lodovico Galleni, is professor of general zoology and of environmental ethics at the University of Pisa (Italy).  As a zoologist his main research field was chromosomal evolution in animals and the connections between karyotype rearrangements with speciation. He is also looking for the different implications of this theory with the Science and Theology relationships and with environmental ethics. He is a member of the Council of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT), of the European Advisory Board of the Center of Theology and Natural Sciences of Berkeley (California) and he is co-ordinator of the section on biology of the International Research Area on Foundations of Sciences (IRAFS) of the Pontifical University of Lateran. He is co-ordinator of the Etruscan Local Group, part of the Local Societies Initiative of the Metanexus Institute.