37th-cycle Ph.D. candidate in polar sciences at Ca' Foscari University Venice and summa cum laude graduate in environmental chemistry at the University of Turin. The PhD project is focused on the study of photochemical activity of natural and anthropogenic compounds in alpine and polar snow.

Research associate at CNR-ISP, Bologna.
B.Sc. in Geology (2014) at the University of Bologna, M.Sc. degree (2016) in Earth Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland and PhD (2021) in geochemistry at ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany.
His research is centred around the study of biogeochemical cycling of nutrients in the modern marine environment, and their reconstruction in the geological past. His study addresses some fundamentals aspects of the nitrogen cycle and its interconnections with the trophic structure of marine food webs and ocean oxygenation. In particular, he works on the development and application of geochemical methods aimed at analysis and interpretation of the nitrogen isotope composition (15N/14N) of organic matter trapped within the biomineral crystalline matrix of fossils and modern organisms, as well as on organic matter from phytoplankton and zooplankton and seawater nitrate.
He has been studying and working in research institutes abroad for a total of 8 years and he is currently associated as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. He is involved in 8 publications on international journals, 2 chapters books of the International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) and 17 abstracts. He obtained a scholarship award from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and research funding from the International Long Term Ecological Research (ILTER) network and the Max Planck Society. He participated in IODP expedition 383 to the Antarctic Ocean aboard R/V JOIDES Resolution.
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ISP's research activities take place, mainly though not exclusively, in Antarctica and the Arctic, where snow and ice are the dominant aspect of the landscape. These regions, more than others, are affected by climate change. Understanding the history of our planet, and how human activities, from the origins of the first civilizations to the present day, have influenced ecosystems, by interacting and modifying the delicate balances that govern the earth's climate system, is the challenge we face. The history enclosed and preserved in ice and, going even further back in time, in sediments, even in times before the appearance of man, is an important topic addressed by ISP researchers.

Mute witnesses of these changes are the polar biological communities: on them the anthropic impact can be devastating. It is essential to improve our knowledge of their current state, to understand their evolution, with a view to future research missions in space. In fact, some polar habitats represent important terrestrial laboratories for astrobiological studies.

All these activities, and many others, are deepened in the thematic areas that characterize the institute.

Degree M.Sc. in Geology (University of Trieste). PhD in Environmental Sciences-Marine Sciences in 1996 (University of Parma). Scientific coordinator in the Department of Mathematics and Geosciences at Trieste. Since 2000, he has been the scientific manager of the Trieste section of the Antarctic Museum. Delegate of the Rector in the National Scientific Council of the National Antarctic Museum from 2003 until its inauguration in June 2004. He coordinated and supervised the scientific and design activities for the National Antarctic Museum's exhibition center, of which he is the current Deputy director. He has been a visiting researcher at the FRAM Center in Tromso, the British Antarctic Survey, and The Science Museum “Principe Felipe” and the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia. As a micropaleontologist, he is involved in the analysis of ostracod and testate amoebae faunas in Antarctic, southern oceans, and high-altitude lakes for the analysis of late Quaternary paleoclimatic variations and for the historical reconstruction of anthropogenic impact in lake and coastal environments.
He currently coordinates the paleontological task force of the project Antarctic Ice Sheets' dynamics: new data from provenance and paleontological analysis of IODP374 and DSDP Leg28 cores in the Ross Sea.