Laura Selbmann, MSc in Biological Sciences, PhD in Biological Evolution and Biochemistry, Associate Professor at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo. Regular guest at the Westerdijk Institute, The Netherlands from 2004 to 2010. Member of the Life Science Group of the Scientific Committee for Research in Antarctica (SCAR) since 2021. Member of MIRRI-Italia (Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure) since 2019. Since 2009 Scientific Director of the Italian National Museum of Antarctica (MNA), Mycological Section, Genoa, Italy. Her main field of study concerns microorganisms from extreme environments and in particular fungi, coordinator of many national and international projects (PNRA, PRIN, ASI, JGI, EMSL). He has participated in 4 Italian Antarctic expeditions (2010-11, 2015-16, 2018-19 and 2021-22), both at the "Mario Zucchelli" Station and the US "McMurdo" Station. He has dedicated his professional life to the study of Antarctic microbial cryptoendolithic communities to investigate their evolution and adaptation during extremes and explore them as early warning systems to monitor the effect of climate change. To date he has described more than 20 new fungal genera and more than 50 new fungal species, most of which from Antarctica. He has published > 140 articles and 4 book chapters. H index 41 Scopus; >8k citations.
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After receiving her Bachelor's degree in Geology from the University of Trieste and her Master's degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Innsbruck, she completed a PhD in palaeoclimate modelling at the University of Trieste and the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). She has since conducted research at ICTP, CNR-ISP, and the University of Quebec in Montreal, focusing on climate-cryosphere interactions in the Alps and the Arctic, spanning from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to future scenarios. She has participated in several scientific expeditions in the Himalayas, Greenland, and the Central-Eastern Alps and is actively engaged in outreach activities

glaciologist with a degree in Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences from the University of Innsbruck, where she specialised in the study of the energy balance of cold-based Alpine glaciers. Her main research interest is the evolution of glacial albedo in the accumulation areas of Alpine glaciers, which are progressively turning into ablation areas due to climate change. She worked for the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research (Austrian Academy of Sciences, ÖAW), developing algorithms for analysing weather station data and participating in the glaciological monitoring of Jamtalferner. Outside of academia, she is vice-president of the Austrian section of Girls* on Ice, where she acted as leader and scientific instructor on the 2024 expedition. She also collaborates with Protect Our Winters Italia, delivering workshops in schools and writing articles for L'Altramontagna.

Senior Research Fellow within the European H2020 project Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice Core: 1.5 Myr of greenhouse gas -climate feedbacks.
MSc in Geophysical Sciences (University of Catania) and PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change (Ca' Foscari-Venice).
His research line focuses mainly on two topics: i) the reconstruction of past climatic and environmental conditions based on ice core records and ii) the study of the chemical and physical properties of the seasonal snowpack in the Arctic environment.
He is currently involved in the analysis of glacial archives from polar and alpine regions (i.e. ice cores, snow, and firn), using mass spectrometry techniques for trace elements determination. He is particularly interested in the study of halogens (bromine and iodine) in glacial records, and their link with seasonal sea ice fluctuations, as well as the study of biogeochemical cycles of heavy metals, organic compounds, black carbon, mercury, and microplastics in the Arctic cryosphere. Since 2018, he has been part of the Italian team of Ice Memory, an international research project aimed at preserving the climate signal recorded in mountain glaciers around the world. Since 2019, he has been responsible for the long-term chemo-physical snow monitoring program in Ny-Ålesund (Svalbard). During the 2023-24 and 2024-25 drilling seasons, he participated in the international research project Beyond Epica Oldest Ice at Little Dome C (LDC) in the Antarctic plateau, where he contributed to the processing of the extracted ice core. In his career, he has participated in numerous scientific expeditions to polar regions, including the Arctic (Svalbard, Alaska), Antarctica (LDC), as well as high altitude alpine areas (>4200m), and subterranean glacial environments. He has contributed, as first author or co-author, to more than 20 scientific articles published in international peer-reviewed journals.

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