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Research, Editorial & Community Coordinator

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Mario Marcolongo

Research, Editorial & Community Coordinator

Evidence synthesis · editorial coordination · research participation · community engagement · AI-assisted tools

Italy · EU/EEA work-authorised · Open to sponsored international relocation and B2B engagementsmariomarcolongo.com[email protected]LinkedInGitHub

Research, editorial and community coordinator with paid scientific content and English-to-Italian localization experience inside a 36.5M-view science-communication brand, plus long-running public-source and structured-data work. Work includes primary-literature verification, original long-form article creation, scientific and technical localization, archival recovery, claim review, public-health monitoring, sensitive research facilitation and public verification processes; audience metrics describe the production environment, not a personal audience.

Selected evidence

80Published content contributions55 YouTube videos · 4 articles · 21 short-form pieces
55+Research initiatives coordinatedVerification, metadata and public participation records
4,317Auditable public contributionsArticle creation · scientific localization · archives · source review
2022–25Sensitive research facilitationRemote focus groups with autistic participants

Relevant experience

Science Writer & Fact-Checker / Website Manager (WordPress)

Entropy for Life · Independent contractor
Official Entropy for Life work record ↗
Jun 2023 — Present
  • Support a small recurring science-communication team across 80 documented published contributions: 55 YouTube videos · 4 articles · 21 short-form pieces.
  • Research, fact-check and localize predominantly English-language scientific evidence into accurate Italian scripts, articles, data visualizations, slides, on-screen assets and short-form materials, adapting terminology and explanatory structure for the audience.
  • Designed and built entropyforlife.it in WordPress and manage its responsive design, publishing, OVHcloud hosting, DNS, SSL and technical SEO.

Founder & Project Lead

Yourself to Science™
Website ↗FAIRsharing ↗
Aug 2024 — Present
  • Founded and independently coordinate a public directory that helps people discover more than 55 opportunities to participate in research.
  • Designed editorial inclusion criteria, verification and update workflows, explanatory content, licensing boundaries and public documentation.
  • Use project-management, issue-tracking and AI-assisted implementation workflows to prioritize tasks, troubleshoot problems and maintain releases.
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Additional relevant experience

Volunteer Research Assistant & Focus-Group Co-Facilitator

Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation (DPSS), University of Padua · supervised by Marta Panzeri
Research-support case study ↗Marta Panzeri ↗University department ↗
Nov 2022 — 2025
  • Served as lead or co-facilitator across approximately 4–5 recorded Zoom focus-group sessions, typically lasting 1–2 hours, with autistic participants discussing sensitive sexuality and relationship topics.
  • Co-developed the protocol, including pseudonymous naming, explicit recorded consent, optional captions and written-chat participation, timed turn-taking, scripted prompts, recording boundaries and two-person facilitation handoffs.
  • Supported participant recruitment, bibliographic research and technical preparation; contributed to structuring participant experience and accessibility considerations and coordinated with Marta Panzeri, researchers and a second volunteer facilitator. Participant information remains confidential.

Additional evidence

Published editorial record

Named author or co-author on public Entropy for Life articles, including a continuously updated H5N1 situation tracker.

Public-source investigation and archival verification

Created an original 18,351-byte English article and developed Italian science and technology articles through translation, terminology adaptation and source enrichment; separately maintained a consumer-genomics privacy record and recovered unavailable public documents.

Sensitive research-support case

Self-reported facilitation and protocol work in a University of Padua project. The public thesis corroborates the project and methodology but does not identify the individual facilitators.

Capabilities

Editorial production, localization & public-source researchEvidence research, long-form explanatory writing, English-to-Italian scientific and technical localization, archival source recovery, claim checking, source documentation, public-record reconciliation, editorial feedback, content preparation and production troubleshooting
Project coordinationIndependent prioritization, overlapping workstreams, issue tracking, progress documentation, release coordination and follow-through
Community engagementParticipant recruitment, sensitive-topic moderation, accessibility-aware communication, two-person facilitation handoffs and support for distributed communities
Localization and digital communicationsEnglish-to-Italian scientific localization, terminology and contextual review, professional writing, WordPress publishing, website maintenance, technical SEO and content presentation
AI-assisted toolsUse AI for research, drafting, implementation support and quality checks, with human verification of results
Performance-aware content packagingThumbnail concepts, visual hierarchy and attention structure informed by click-through rate, watch time, retention and current platform best practices.

Best-fit role families

  • Editorial-production support and public-source research with multilingual scientific localization
  • Evidence-synthesis program coordination
  • Research community engagement and learning-program support
  • Scientific communications and publication support

Education & credentials

  • Information Technology — Open UAS Path Studies (120 ECTS) — Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Aug 2026–Present; bachelor's-level ICT studies in software development, databases, Unix/Linux, data structures and algorithms, networking, cloud computing, cybersecurity and applied AI. Eligible to apply to the BEng IT programme after completing 120 ECTS (admission not yet granted).
  • GALENOS Crowd Evidence Synthesis Training — Cochrane Crowd & GALENOS, 2026
  • Career Essentials in Generative AI — Microsoft & LinkedIn, 2024
  • Italian — native. English — C1 overall (EF SET 68/100); advanced technical reading and professional writing, with practical English-to-Italian scientific localization and cross-language content-quality work.
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