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.

Master’s degree in Marine Biology at the University of Padova; PhD student at the University of Bologna (FishMed-PhD).
Since 2015 he has been working on national fishery monitoring programs, within the EU-Data Collection Framework, funded by scholarships of Ancona National Research Council (CNR). From 2015 he also has been participating in marine research activities of the Padova University, at the Hydrobiological Station of Chioggia. His fields of interest are inherent to the biological life cycles of commercial fish species of the Mediterranean and the Antarctic areas (notothenioids). In particular, he investigated reproductive traits of these species thought histological analyses of gonads, age structure/growth cycle by means of otoliths’ readings and some trophic features using the stomach content analyses.
He collaborated in more than 10 scientific trawl surveys in Italian water and joined the 38th Italian expedition to Antarctica (2022/2023).

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Environmental scientist, graduated at the University of Bologna.

Since 2022 she is PhD student in Polar Science at the university Ca'Foscari (Venice), with a focus on the photochemistry of mercury at snow-air interface in polar regions.