• Doctor in Agronomy
• Senior Scientist at the Institute of Biometeorology (IBIMET) of the Nationale Research Council

• Scientific responsible of the research line "Global change and physiology of natural and cultivated plants".
• Italian responsible for the bilateral project Italy/Argentina "Interaction between light and hormones in the regulation of shoot growth".
• Scientific responsible for the PAT/CNR program "Analysis and researches for the agroindustrial system" (PROMETAVIT).
• Scientific responsible of the Ciba-IBIMET research program "Light spectral quality effects on the photomorphogenic processes in plants
• Referee of international scientific journals (JCR): Physiologia Plantarum; Plant Growth Regulator; Atmospheric Chemistry and Physic; Journal of Plant Growth Regulation; New Phytologist; Environmental and Experimental Botany; Journal of Plant Physiology
  
• Scientific responsible of IBIMET project:
  

    - The role of plants in urban environment   
    - Characterization of metabolic and biosynthetic processes for the quality improvement of production.
    - Physiological and biochemical parameters in the correlation between resistance and tolerance to biotic and abiotic factors.

• Scientific collaborattion of research projects:
  

    - MIPAF research program "Plant protection throught molecular markers" (PROMAR).
    - Biatex 2  Project "Atmosphere-Biosphere Exchange of Pollutant" Subproject- EUROTRAC (European Experiment on the Transport and Transformation of 
    - Environmentally Relavant Tree Gas Constituents in teh Troposphere over Europe)
    - European Project MEDEFLU "European Community Fluxes in Mediterranean Area)
    - European Project FUTURE_VOC "Biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emission of European forests under CO2 levels: influence on compound
      composition and source strength"
    - PianosaLab Projec "Development and implementation of a ground stationto study the greenhouse gas exchange from vegetation and atmosphere"
    - MIUR-FISR Carboitaly project " Innovative instruments for the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol: Italian measurement network & national prediction
      system of forest and agricultural carbon sink and national-scale assessment of productivity and carbon sequestration of Italian forests".
    - MIUR Project "Mediterranean forests and drought:mechanism of resistance and vulnerability"
    - MIUR project "Innovative techniques for the remote sensing of vegetation carbon balance"
    - MIUR project "Molecular and hormonal bases involved in the switch of the cellular fate and in the totipotency of higher plants"
    - CRPV Project "Strategie di prevenzione per la savlvaguardia della produzione di actinidia affetta da fprme croniche di deperimento lignicolo (carie ed
      elefantiasi)

• Research interests:

- Atmosphere/biosphere exchange
- Ecophysiological studies on volatile organic compound emission (VOC) from vegetation at plant and ecosystem scale
- Global change.
- Plant physiology and ecophysiology
- Auxin and abscisic acid biosynthesis and metabolism and association with various aspects of plant, bacteria and fungal development
- Phytohormones as intermediates between light signal and morphogenesis

• Selected pubblications

1. Baraldi R., Cristoferi G., Facini., Facini O., Lercari B., 1992. The effect of light quality in Prunus cerasus. I. Photoreceptors involved in internode elongation and leaf expansion in juvanile plants. Photochem. Photobiol., 56(4):541-544.
2. Rossi F., Baraldi R., Lercari B., 1993. Photomorphogenic effects on in vitro rooting of Prunus rootstock GF 655-2. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 32:145-151.
3. Baraldi R., Cohen J.D., Bertazza G., Predieri S., 1993. Uptake and metabolism of indole-3-butyric acid during the in vitro rooting phase in pear cultivars (Pyrus communis) Acta Hort. 329:289-291.
4. Baraldi R., Rossi F., Facini O., Fasolo F., Rotondi A., Magli M., Nerozzi F., 1994. Light environment, growth and morphogenesis in a peach tree canopy. Physiol. Plant. 91:339-345
5. Rapparini F., Baraldi R., Bertazza G., Predieri S., Branzanti B., 1994. Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation of micropropagated fruit trees. J. Hort. Science 69(6)1101-1109
6. Baraldi R., Bertazza G., Bregoli A., Fasolo F., Rotondi A., Predieri S., Serafini-Fracassini D., Slovin J.P., Cohen J.D., 1995. Auxins and polyamines in relation to differential in vitro root induction on microcuttings of two pear cultivars. J.Plant Growth Regul. 14:49-59. Pubbl.
7. Bertazza G., Baraldi R., Predieri S., 1995 Light effects on in vitro rooting of pear cultivars of different rhizogenic ability. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 4:139-143
8. Baraldi R., Bertazza G., Bogini J., Luna V., Bottini R. 1995 The effect of light quality on Prunus cerasus II. Changes in hormone levels in plants grown under different light conditions. Photochem. Photobiol., 63(4):800-803
9. Rapparini F., Baraldi R., Bertazza G. 1996. Growth and carbohydrate status of Pyrus communis L. plantlets inoculated with Glomus sp. Agronomie, 16:563-571
10. Biondi S., Lenzi C., Baraldi R., Bagni N. 1997. Hormonal effects on growth and morphology of normal and hairy roots of Hyoscyamus muticus. Accettato dal J. Plant Growth Regul.
11. Volmaro C., Ponton M., Luna V., Baraldi R., Bottini R. 1998. Blue light effects on hypocotyl elongation of etiolated seedlings of Lactuca sativa (L) cv Grand Rapids related to exogenous growth regulators and endogenous IAA, GA3 and abscissic acid. Plant Growth Regul. 26:165-173.
12. Baraldi R., Rapparini F., Rotondi A., Bertazza G. 1998 Effects of simulated light environments on growth and leaf morphology of peach plants. J. Hort. Science and Techn. 73(2): 251-258
13. Pellegrini, Bettini, La Scala, Boscherini, Baraldi R., Cristoferi G., Buiatti 1998 Modification of competence for response to Fusarium oxysporum sp lycopersici in tomato cell. Increased tolerance of plants regenerated from high polysaccharide selected cells. J. Genetic and Breed. 52: 233-241
14. Rapparini F., Rotondi A., Baraldi R., 1999. Blue light regulation of the growth of Prunus persica plants in a long term experiment: morphological and hystological observations. Trees, 14: 169-176
15. Baraldi R., Rapparini F., Rossi F., Latella A., Ciccioli P., 1999. Volatile organic compound emissions from flowers of the most occurring and economically important species of fruit trees. Phys. Chem. Earth (B) vol. 24(6): 729-732
16. Bastian F., Rapparini F., Baraldi R., Piccoli P., Bottini R. 1999. Inoculation with Acetobacter diatrophycus increases glucose and fructose content in shoots of Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench. Symbiosis, 27(2): 147-156
17. Predieri S., Rapparini F., Baraldi R. 1999. Detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by fruit trees in tissue culture. ISHS "Methods and Markers for Quality Assurance in Micropropagation", Irlanda, Agosto, pp 212-213
18. Lobello G., Fambrini M., Baraldi R., Lercari B., Pugliesi C. 2000 Hormonal influence on photocontrol of the protandry in the genus Helianthus. J. Exp. Bot. 51(349): 1403-1412
19. Rapparini F., Predieri S., Baraldi R. 2000. Emission of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) by tissue cultures of "Colt" and "GF 677". Submitted to Acta Hortic.
20. Baraldi R., Rapparini F., Pietrini F., Loreto F, G. Di Marco. 2000. Il progetto PianosaLab: Emissione di composti organici volatili dalla vegetazione della macchia mediterranea. Editrice Universitaria Udinese Srl. ISBN 88-8420-059-8. pp 91-99.
21. Rapparini F., Baraldi R. and Facini O. 2001. Seasonal variation of monoterpene emission from Malus domestica and Prunus avium. Phytochemistry (57): 681-687
22. Baraldi R., Rapparini F., Loreto F., Pietrini F., Di Marco G. 2001. Emissione di composti organici volatili dalla vegetazione della macchia mediterranea. Il progetto PianosaLab, Forum, Ed. Uni. Udinese, Udine, 51:99
23. Loreto F., Centritto M., Baraldi R., Rapparini F. and Liu S. 2002. Emission of isoprenoids from natural vegetation in the Beijing region (Northen China). Plant Biosystems, 136 (2)
24. Liang B., Baraldi R, and F. Rapparini. 2003 Study on diurnal variation of terpenoid compounds emitted by Pistacia lentiscus and its emission rate. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium 39 (4): 517-521.
25. Baraldi R., Rapparini F., Oechel W. C., Hastings S. J., Bryant P., Cheng Y. & Miglietta F. 2004. Monoterpene emission responses to elevated CO2 in a Mediterranean-type ecosystem. New Phytologist, 161: 17-21.
26. Rapparini F., Baraldi R., Miglietta F. & Loreto F. 2004. Isoprenoid emission in trees of Quercus pubescens and Quercus ilex with lifetime exposure to naturally high CO2 environment. Plant Cell & Environment 27 (4): 381-391.
27. Baraldi R., Vaccari F.P., Colom M.R., Cotrufo MF. And D’Acqui LP. 2004. The Pianosa_LAB: An integrated research project to assess the carbon bilance of Pianosa island. J. Medit. Ecology, 5(1): 5-13
28. Ciccioli P., Baraldi R., Mannozzi M., Rapparini F., Nardino M., Maglietta F., Brancaleoni E., Frattoni M. 2004. Emission and flux of terpenoids released from the terrestrial ecosystems present in the Pianosa island. J. Medit. Ecology 5(1): 41-51
29. Baraldi R., Rapparini F., Facini O., Spano D., Duce P. 2006. Isoprenoid emissions and physiological activities of Mediterranean macchia vegetation under field conditions. J. Medit. Ecology 6(1):3-9
30. Fambrini M., Monsignori E., Rapparini F., Cionini G., Michelotti V., Bertini D., Baraldi R., Pugliesi C. 2006. Stem fascinated, a recessive mutation in sunflower (Helianthus anuus), alters plant morphology and auxin level. Annals of Botany, 98:715-730
31. Antognoni F., Zheng SP., Pagnucco C., Baraldi R., Poli F., Biondi S. 2007. Induction of flavonoid production by UV-B radiation in Passiflora quadrangularis tissue culture. Fitoterapia 78: 345-352
32. Baraldi R., Isacchi B., Predieri S., Marconi G., Vincieri FF., Bilia AR., 2008. Distribution of artemisinin and bioactive flavonoids from Artemisia annua L. during plant growth. Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 36: 340-348