Marine biologist and oceanographer, Serena got three degrees from different universities: the undergraduate in Biological Sciences at the University of Genova, the master in marine biology at the University Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, another master in 'Applied Physical Oceanography' at the University of Malta. She studied in detail the algae reproduction as well as the anchovies reproduction, while her specialisation as a marine biologist was about the study of the Sperm whales' acoustic. She wanted to protect the oceans and who lives in them, therefore in Malta she specialised into the study of the plastic pollution, with the use of a drone, deriving from an oceanic input as well as from humans, as a definition of a non education about the environment. Furthermore, her desire to know more in detail about other cetaceans species brought her for different summer seasons to Husavik, Iceland, working as a whale watching guide. From the humpback whales and the blue whales to the curiosity of knowing more about the ice, while looking at the glaciers in Iceland. Since then, she became a PhD student at the University of Ca' Foscari of Venice, in collaboration with the University of Milan-Bicocca, where she is studying the RICE ice core, in particular the fossils that she is finding into the core and the reason why they are there.

Director of Research at CNR-ISP
He is interested in determining rates of aquatic processes involving sediment particles, using radioactive tracers and time-series sediment traps. Particle dynamics is then applied to the study of the effects of climate change on the marine and polar environment, such as: a) biogeochemical cycles of organic C and biogenic silica in the Southern Ocean, Fram Strait and Mediterranean Sea; b) Late Quaternary paleoceanographic reconstructions using biogenic and radionuclide components; c) estimates of atmospheric CO2 growth rate in remote and polar ocean; c) particle transport by dense water cascading down to the deep marine realm; e) historical reconstruction of the sediment pollution of lacustrine and coastal environments in highly populated and remote polar areas.
Participation at EC and national projects. PI of projects funded by industry and ONR. PI or WP leader in Antarctica and Arctic projects. CNR scientific contact in EU-ARICE and EU-INTERACT III. Experience >30 years of oceanographic campaigns with 90 participations (18 as Chief Scientist) in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Southern Ocean and Arctic ocean. Scientific coordinator of marine activities during 2 Italian expeditions in Antarctica. He is the pro-tempore Director of the Institute of Polar Sciences of the Italian CNR (CNR-ISP).
He is author or co-author of ca. 100 scientific papers published on ISI journals with Impact Factor, ca. 60 scientific papers published on no-ISI journals, 7 chapters of book, 30 technical reports and cruise reports. Citation number amounts to about 2500, with a Hirsch factor (h-factor) of 27 (font Scopus).

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She got her Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences at the University of Messina in 2006. Actually, she is member of the Committee for the Collection and Management of Antarctic samples of the PNRA-MIUR, and of the Executive Committee of the CUR for the study of Extreme Environments and Extremophiles Francesco Maria Faranda (University of Messina).
She collaborated with the University of Messina for the scientific management of the Italian Collection of Antarctic Bacteria of the National Antarctic Museum (CIBAN-MNA).
She participated to sampling campaigns in Antarctic and Arctic areas, as well as to oceanographic cruises in the Mediterranean. She is actively involved in national and international research projects in the fields of microbial ecology (diversity and function of prokaryotes) of polar environments, biotechnology of cold-adapted bacteria (e.g.,. search for xenobiotic degraders and biomolecule producers) and bacterial interactions. She is particularly interested in the bacterial association with benthic filter-feeders, and in the relationships between prokaryotes and chemical contamination.
She is author or co-author of more than 70 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, among which Physics of Life Reviews, Scientific Reports, Biotechnology Advances, Science of the Total Environment, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, PLOS One, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, and several book chapters. She is peer-reviewer for international journals on ecology and microbiology, and scientific reviewer for project proposals for international polar agencies. She is member of the open-access journals Microorganisms (Section Microbial Biotechnology) and Diversity (Section Microbial Diversity), and Review Editor for “Frontiers in Marine Sciences: Marine Biotechnology”.

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She attained the master’s degree with honours in Applied and Environmental Geology at the University of Turin in 2010, with a thesis entitled Distribution, origin and consequences of fluoride content in groundwater in an area of the central sector of the Ethiopian Rift. She specialized in the collection, analysis and dissemination of data in developing countries and in geological and hydrogeological mapping and modelling through GIS data management. The working experience in the Alpine environment allowed the deepening into pedological and geochemical subjects. She worked as study grant holder on the Nunataryuk EU-funded Horizon 2020 project, coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, that aims to assess arctic permafrost thaw and study how it contributes to climate change.
Present position: PhD Student at University Ca' Foscari Venezia, PhD in Polar Sciences; title of proposal: Modelling the fate of POPs distribution in permafrost: combine large scale to local perspective.