Master degree in Physics at the Padova University. Researcher at CNR since 1988. The main research activity is on the field of Earth Observarion, carried out using active instruments (Synthetic Aperture Radar-SAR, scatterometer), to monitor the sea surface, with the main focus on the meteorological processes at meso and micro scales (below 5 km) and on the extraction geophysical parameters from the SAR images. He is involved in alpine glaciers modelling, to study their evolution under the different scenarios of the climate change.
He coordinated projects with ESA (European Space Agency) and is co-investigator in projects of ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana). At present he is Principal Investigator of IsCSK4MOSAiC, an ASI and CNR project, to provide to the artic expedition MOSAiC (mosaic-expedition.org, September 2019-September 2020) SAR images of CosmoSkyMED in near real time.
He is associated professor of Remote Sensing at the Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran.

Current position: retired

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Researcher at the Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) since July 2020. Previously researcher at the University Ca’ Foscari Venice (Italy) and at the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA). He received his PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University Ca’ Foscari Venice (Italy), after a thesis entitled “Habitat distribution models for the management of fishery and conservation concern species in lagoon environment”. His work was carried out in the framework of different EU (FP7, Horizon 2020, Interreg) and Italian (PRIN) projects, and his main research topics are: 1) analysis of the spatial distribution of plant and animal species in coastal water bodies; 2) Community ecology in transitional water ecosystems; 3) Use of fish fauna assemblages as indicators of ecosystem ecological status; 4) Ecological models for food webs analysis; 5) Climate change effects on aquatic ecosystems.

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Laura Zucconi Galli Fonseca (h-index 33) is Associate Professor in Botany from 2005. She has been involved in Antarctic Research projects from 1992 both as PI or responsible of RU, as well as in projects in other extreme environments, as the Arctic (INTERACT-Horizon 2020) and Alps (PRIN 2015, PRIN 2019, PRIN 2022). She joined the 2014 Arctic expedition (Ny-Ålesund) and six Italian Antarctic Expeditions (XIX, XXVI, XXXI, XXXIII, XXXV, XXXVII), appointed by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) as Scientific Coordinator of the research activities carried out at the Italian Base during the XXVI, XXXV, and XXXVII Expeditions. Member of the Editorial Board of Section ‘Extreme Microbiology’ in Frontiers in Microbiology. Guest Associate Editor of two topics for Frontiers in Microbiology and two topics for Biology (MDPI).
Her scientific activity focuses on microbial ecology, in particular on Antarctic soil and cryptoendolithic communities distribution, biodiversity and adaptation to different stresses. In the last years, her research is being extended in a deeper analysis of soil microbial communities through molecular approaches, to describe the effects of environmental conditions on their composition, functionality and adaptability. Her research activities range among different fields: systematic and taxonomy of filamentous fungi, ultrastructural morphology, molecular biology, astrobiology, adaptive responses to stress conditions – including real and simulated space conditions – of both single species and whole fungal communities.

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