Master's degree in Exploration Geology (University of Rome "La Sapienza"), PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change (Cà Foscari University of Venice, OGS Trieste and University of Otago, New Zealand) funded by the Italian National Research Program in Antarctica (PNRA). Current position: research fellow at the Institute of Polar Sciences of the CNR (CNR-ISP) in Bologna. Previously assistant researcher at the geochemistry laboratory of the University of Otago in New Zealand.
Currently the research concerns the study and characterization of the terrestrial organic carbon along the Adriatic margin through stable carbon isotopes and organic markers as part of the PRIN-PASS 2017 Project.

Associate professor at Ca' Foscari Unvierity of Venice (Italy) since 2019. He holds a PhD degree in Chemistry at Ca' Foscari (2011). The research interests have been focused on the development of electroanalytical methods for sensing and imaging (SECM). Since 2013, the research activity has been focused on the development of analytical methods mainly based on GC/MS and their application in environmental science and palaeoclimatology. He has been the coordinator of the project of Ateneo 2015 "The last tree standing" and of the project INSIDE in the framework of the programme SPIN 2018. Ha has been coordinator unit of the project Evasion in the framework of the PNRA 2016 programme. The research activity led to the pubblications of 39 papers with more than 400 citations (H-index 12). Since 2019 he is member of the editorial board as academic editor of the journal PlosONE and referee of a number of scientific journals.
Since 2013 he has in charged the teaching activity in Climate of the Past (Environmental Science), Chemical Methods for Cultural Heritage Materials (Conservation Science and Technology for Cultural Heritage) and Analytical Chemistry (Chimica e Tecnologie Sostenibili).
Since 2016 he has been member of the Didactic Board and member of the Quality Assurance (AQ) Board in Conservation Science and Technology for the Cultural Heritage at University Ca’ Foscari of Venice. Member of the PhD Program in Environmental Science of University Ca’ Foscari of Venice and Member of the Joint Committee Professors – Students (Commissione Paritetica Docenti – Studenti CPDS)

CTER IV - Staff at the CNR since 1983, always in the field of computer science.
Previously: - 1997 she joined the Technical-Scientific Secretariat of the Antarctic Program, a structure of the CNR (Italian National Research Council) pertaining to the Central Directorate, dealing with the Internet network and related services, carrying out tasks of administrator of Linux systems, of designer and administrator of relational databases, as well as designer and manager of the whole web, including the development of code for the integration of Web technologies and Database consolidating the use of the platform (LAMP-Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and continuing the design of integrated Web/Database systems.
In 2000 she is part of the CNR Polar Research Network, POLARNET taking care of the CNR website www.polarnet.cnr.it. She participates in the European Polar Consortium as Web project manager, database administrator, database design and programmer within the EUROPOLAR TASK 2.2 (EPICOM) Synthesis of European Polar Infrastructure Utilization and Strategic Management of National Assets.
In 2006 the Polarnet network, was integrated in the Earth and Environment Department of CNR (CNR-DSSTTA). Since then and until the first months of 2020 she has overseen the Department’s website. From March 2013 she manages the twitter profile of CNR-DSSTTA.
Since October 1st, 2019 she has been part of the Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP) - Research Area of Rome-Tor Vergata
Current activities
- Webmaster of the site www.isp.cnr.it
- social media manager - Twitter profile of the Department of Earth System Sciences and Technologies for the Environment - CNR
- webmaster of the site www.iodp-italia.cnr.it
- webmaster of the site artico.cnr.it
- scouting activities on the net
- account management on Social Media aggregation platforms: Timeline, Wakelet

Graduate in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology in 1991 at the University of Florence, in 1998 Philosophy Doctor in Environmental Science with the thesis Study of Antarctic ecosystem by ice core chemical analysis. Since 1999 she has a permanent position at the Department of Chemistry - University of Florence. In 2013 and 2017 she obtained the National Abilitation for Professor in Analytical Chemistry and in 2017 she obtained the National Abilitation for full Professor in Analytical Chemistry.
Now she works on the application of innovative highly performance analytical methods for the determination of ions and metals in environmental matrices, mainly aerosols, snow and ice. The research activity is focused on the study of the atmospheric aerosol sources and transport processes in areas with different anthropogenic impact, with particular attention to polar areas (Arctic, Antarctica) and marine areas in the central Mediterranean basin. An important part of her research activity is the study of the cycles of natural substances, the anthropogenic contributions and the aerosol-climate interaction for present time, by aerosol measurements, and for the past by chemical analysis of ice cores drilled in Antarctica. She is Editor of the following Journal/issue:
- Special issue jointly organized between Biogeosciences and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric deposition in the low-nutrient-low-chlorophyll (LNLC) ocean: effects on marine life today and in the future.
- International Journal Environmental Research and Public Health – Section “Environmental Chemistry and Technology” (IF 2018 = 2.468).
She is author/co-author of 117 and 122 publications from ISI Web of Science and Scopus respectively and she has H-index of 30.