ABOUT PIETRO
Pietro Trabucchi has been focusing his research interests on topics such as motivation, stress management and resilience, leadership and team performance for over two decades.
Professor at the Department of Neuroscience and Movement Sciences of the University of Verona, he is responsible for research on the psychology of activities in extreme environments at CeRiSM, the Verona-Trento Interuniversity Research Center on human performance.
He was the Sports Psychologist for various Olympic Teams: Cross Country Skiing (Turin 2006), Triathlon (Sydney 2000) and Rowing (Rio 2016) as well as having worked for years with the National Ultramarathon Teams.
He has also taught workshops in motivation and stress management for various private companies.
Mountaineering
enthusiast, since 1999 he organized and trained expeditions aimed at achieving
world records on the highest peaks in the world. He himself summiter of Mount
Everest from the north face in 2005 with the "Everest Vitesse"
expedition, and was summiter in various other expeditions (Elbrus, Aconcagua,
Kilimanjiaro, Denali).
In 2016 he organized the "Alaska Stress Challenge" scientific
expedition with a climb to Denali, the highest peak in North America.
In 2019 he completed Greenland crossing from west to east, using skies and
pulling his pulka in 27 days, together with five companions of an international
team focused on producing research on stress-management.
He has raced and finished both the Tor des Geants and the PTL 4 times; and Yukon Artic and "Rock and Ice Ultra" in the Canadian Arctic.
He has published several scientific papers dedicated to the mechanisms of adaptation to stress in extreme environments and in grueling competitions in international journals such as "Frontiers in Physiology"; and some books on the theme of resilience and motivation, including the bestseller "Resisto dunque sono", presented on the popular TV show "Che tempo che fa".
He lives in Valle d'Aosta with his two daughters, Beatrice and Martina who have chosen the path of professional sport.
BEATRICE  MARTINA |
