Pietro is a researcher and practitioner of agroecology, whose work intersects STS, with environmental humanities and political ecology of agriculture. His current research focuses on compost experimentalism and agroecological reparation; for this purpose he is devising farm-based, transdisciplinary, and participatory approaches in collaboration with farmers, scientists, activists, educators, facilitators and artists. His thesis is weaving the frictions and fictions of soil sciences, practices and materialities with the emergent imaginaries of ‘contemporary agroecology’.

Pietro is a PhD candidate at COSMOS, Centre for Social Movement Studies, in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Scuola Normale Superiore, in Florence, Italy. In 2026 he is a visiting researcher at the History of Consciousness department at University of California, Santa Cruz. Previously he earned his B.A. in Development Studies & History from SOAS (University of London), and M.A. in Transcultural Studies from the University of Heidelberg in the research group “Agrarian alternatives and Agroecological Futures in South Asia”. His work has been published in Geography Notebooks and Ecologia Politica. Pietro is co-founder and co-editor of the blog and independent journal Epidemia.

Research interests: agroecology; compost: technoscience; soil-food-web; ecological reparation; experimental practice; non-scalability; experimentality; transdisciplinarity;