Job Description
Giulio is a Research Scientist of the Climate Change Science Group at Forest Research. His broad role is to help understand the impact of climate and other environmental changes on forests, and how trees and forests can improve our environment and provide ecological, environmental and societal benefits. He specialises in field monitoring of trees, environmental parameters and greenhouse gas fluxes.
Biography
Giulio Curioni obtained a BSc and MSc degree at the University of Milano-Bicocca (IT) in Environmental Sciences and Technology with specialisation in soil science, and a PhD at the University of Birmingham (UK) in Engineering on shallow geophysics. He was involved in engineering and environmental projects using new methods and technologies for measuring soil physical properties (e.g. soil moisture) and later managed environmental research data from a world-leading large-scale FACE (Free Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment) forest experiment at the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR).
Giulio joined Forest Research in 2023 working on a project investigating the resilience of native UK tree broadleaved species to historical drought events using dendrochronology.
Affiliations
Birmingham Institute of Forest Research
British Soil Science Society
Giulio Curioni
BSc, MSc, PhD
Scientist - Climate Change
Climate change
Northern Research Station
Roslin Midlothian EH25 9SY
Peer reviewed journal articles
Quick, S. E., Curioni, G., Harper, N. J., Krause, S., & MacKenzie, A. R. (2025). Water usage of old-growth oak at elevated CO2 in the FACE (Free-Air CO2 Enrichment) of climate change. Biogeosciences, 22(6), 1557–1581. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-1557-2025
Delpierre, N., Garnier, S., Treuil‐Dussouet, H., Hufkens, K., Lin, J., Beier, C., Bell, M., Berveiller, D., Cuntz, M., Curioni, G., Dahlin, K., Denham, S. O., Desai, A. R., Domec, J., Hart, K. M., Ibrom, A., Joetzjer, E., King, J., Klosterhalfen, A., … Soudani, K. (2024). Phenology Across Scales: An Intercontinental Analysis of Leaf‐Out Dates in Temperate Deciduous Tree Communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(12), e13910. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13910
Norby, R. J., Loader, N. J., Mayoral, C., Ullah, S., Curioni, G., Smith, A. R., Reay, M. K., Van Wijngaarden, K., Amjad, M. S., Brettle, D., Crockatt, M. E., Denny, G., Grzesik, R. T., Hamilton, R. L., Hart, K. M., Hartley, I. P., Jones, A. G., Kourmouli, A., Larsen, J. R., … MacKenzie, A. R. (2024). Enhanced woody biomass production in a mature temperate forest under elevated CO2. Nature Climate Change, 14(9), 983–988. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02090-3
Rabbai, A., Barba, J., Canducci, M., Hart, K. M., MacKenzie, A. R., Kettridge, N., Curioni, G., Ullah, S., & Krause, S. (2024). Fertilization-induced greenhouse gas emissions partially offset carbon sequestration during afforestation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 199, 109577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109577
Rabbai, A., D.E. Wendt, G. Curioni, S.E. Quick, A.R. MacKenzie, M.D. Hannah, N. Kettridge, S. Ullah, K.M. Hart, and S. Krause. ‘Soil Moisture and Temperature Dynamics in Juvenile and Mature Forest as a Result of Tree Growth, Hydrometeorological Forcings, and Drought’. Hydrological Processes 37, no. 6 (2023): e14919. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14919.
Bannister, E.J., M. Jesson, N.J. Harper, K.M. Hart, G. Curioni, X. Cai, and A.R. MacKenzie. ‘Residence Times of Air in a Mature Forest: Observational Evidence from a Free-Air CO2 Enrichment Experiment’. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 23, no. 3 (2023): 2145–65. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2145-2023.
Du, H., L. Wei, V. Dimitrova, D. Magee, B. Clarke, R. Collins, D. Entwisle, M. Eskandari Torbaghan, G. Curioni, R. Stirling, H. Reeves, A.G. Cohn. ‘City Infrastructure Ontologies’. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 104 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2023.101991.
Wilkinson, P.B., J.E. Chambers, P.I. Meldrum, O. Kuras, C.M. Inauen, R.T. Swift, G. Curioni, S. Uhlemann, J. Graham, and N. Atherton. ‘Windowed 4D Inversion for near Real-Time Geoelectrical Monitoring Applications’. Frontiers in Earth Science 10 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.983603.
MacKenzie, A.R., S. Krause, K.M. Hart, R.M. Thomas, P.J. Blaen, R.L. Hamilton, G. Curioni, et al. ‘BIFoR FACE: Water–Soil–Vegetation–Atmosphere Data from a Temperate Deciduous Forest Catchment, Including under Elevated CO2’. Hydrological Processes 35, no. 3 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14096.
Hart, K.M., G. Curioni, P. Blaen, N.J. Harper, P. Miles, K.F. Lewin, J. Nagy, et al. ‘Characteristics of Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment of a Northern Temperate Mature Forest’. Global Change Biology 26, no. 2 (2020): 1023–37. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14786.
Eskandari Torbaghan, M., G. Curioni, F. Hayati, A.C.D. Royal, D.N. Chapman, P.R. Atkins, and C.D.F. Rogers. ‘Investigating the Relationship between Trenching Practice and Road Deterioration Using a Field Trial’. Infrastructure Asset Management 7 (19 February 2020): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.19.00052.
Dashwood, B., D. Gunn, G. Curioni, C. Inauen, R. Swift, D. Chapman, A. Royal, P. Hobbs, H. Reeves, and J. Taxil. ‘Surface Wave Surveys for Imaging Ground Property Changes Due to a Leaking Water Pipe’. Journal of Applied Geophysics 174 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2019.103923.
Faroqy, A., A.C.D. Royal, G. Curioni, D.N. Chapman, and N.J. Cassidy. ‘Monitoring Fine-Grain Soil Loading with Time-Domain Reflectometry’. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 146, no. 6 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002253.
Curioni, G., D.N. Chapman, A.C.D. Royal, N. Metje, B. Dashwood, D.A. Gunn, C.M. Inauen, et al. ‘Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) Potential for Soil Condition Monitoring of Geotechnical Assets’. Canadian Geotechnical Journal 56, no. 7 (2019): 942–55. https://doi.org/10.1139/cgj-2017-0618.
Mihai, A.E., A.G. Gerea, G. Curioni, P. Atkins, and F. Hayati. ‘Direct Measurements of Tree Root Relative Permittivity for the Aid of GPR Forward Models and Site Surveys’: Near Surface Geophysics 17, no. 3 (2019): 299–310. https://doi.org/10.1002/nsg.12043.
Curioni, G., D.N. Chapman, L.J. Pring, A.C.D. Royal, and N. Metje. ‘Extending TDR Capability for Measuring Soil Density and Water Content for Field Condition Monitoring’. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 144, no. 2 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001792.
Curioni, G., D.N. Chapman, and N. Metje. ‘Seasonal Variations Measured by TDR and GPR on an Anthropogenic Sandy Soil and the Implications for Utility Detection’. Journal of Applied Geophysics 141 (2017): 34–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2017.01.029.
Dou, Q., L. Wei, D.R. Magee, P.R. Atkins, D.N. Chapman, G. Curioni, K.F. Goddard, et al. ‘3D Buried Utility Location Using a Marching-Cross-Section Algorithm for Multi-Sensor Data Fusion’. Sensors (Switzerland) 16, no. 11 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3390/s16111827.
Thring, L.M., D. Boddice, N. Metje, G. Curioni, D.N. Chapman, and L. Pring. ‘Factors Affecting Soil Permittivity and Proposals to Obtain Gravimetric Water Content from Time Domain Reflectometry Measurements’. Canadian Geotechnical Journal 51, no. 11 (2014): 1303–17.
Curioni, G., D.N. Chapman, N. Metje, K.Y. Foo, and J.D. Cross. ‘Construction and Calibration of a Field TDR Monitoring Station’. Near Surface Geophysics 10, no. 3 (2012): 249–61. https://doi.org/10.1002/nsg.103001.