Alessandro Piccolo (born 7 July 1951 in Rome) is an Italian chemist and agricultural scientist, with particular expertise in soil science.
He received the Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Life Sciences of Prague, Czech Republic in 2009.
[1][2][3][4] He has published more than 300 peer reviewed scientific papers and he is ranked among the top Italian scientists (http://www.topitalianscientists.org/Top_italian_scientists_VIA-Academy.aspx).
In 1978 he spent as a Fulbright fellow a research period at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he also obtained a degree in agricultural chemistry.
From 1980 to 1983 he served in Ethiopia as an expert of the United Nations organization FAO at the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research.