During my childhood, I developed a great attraction for everything that involved aquatic environment, and time told me that I was right, and biology has become one of the most important things in my life.
I obtained a degree in biological sciences at ‘Alma Mater Studiorum’ University of Bologna (Italy), and a master’s degree in marine biology at the same university. To prepare my master thesis I carried out an internship at Fiorenza Micheli’s laboratory at the Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey (Stanford University, CA, U.S.A.), one of the most important laboratories concerning marine ecology.
In my years of study, I had the privilege to take part in cooperations between different universities. In fact, my MS thesis: ‘Effects of multiple sources of disturbance in rocky benthic assemblages of some localities of Salento, Apulia’, has been carried among different universities: Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna, Università del Salento in Lecce, and Stanford University in Monterey.
From May to Septembre 2014 I participated as collaborator in a mesocosm experiment led by AArhus University (Denmark) and UVic-‐UCC (University of Vic, Catalunya) about a possible top-‐down effect in the trophic chain of lake Myvatn, Iceland.
I finished my PhD training in January 2022 at UVic University at GEA group, defending a thesis with the title: Environmental and biotic factors influencing the size structure of the aquatic communities in Mediterranean ponds’. Currently I am working as a postdoc researcher at PONDERFUL project.