My career

March 2023 - to date: Tenure Track Principle Investigator
at the Department of Coastal Systems, Royal Netherland Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Netherland.

October 2019- 2022: ISblue Post-doctoral Fellow in Marine Trophic Ecology
at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR), France. More information here

January 2018- September 2019: Post-doctoral Fellow in Marine Biology and Biogeochemistry, Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Adviser: Dr. Sarah Fawcett 

January-December 2017: Post-doctoral Fellow in Marine Biology, Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Advisers: Prof. Isabelle Ansorge.

April 2015- December 2016: Post-doctoral Fellow in Marine Biology, Rhodes University, South Africa in collaboration with the University of Cape Town. Advisers: Prof. Christopher McQuaid and Prof. Isabelle Ansorge.

Qualification

2012- 2015: PhD degree in Marine Biology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Topic. Supervisors: Prof. Christopher McQuaid and Dr. Margaux Noyon. 

2010: Master Degree in Marine Biology, obtained with distinction at the University of Pisa, Italy. Topic.  Supervisors: Prof. Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Dr. Elena Maggi. 

2008: Bachelor Degree in Ecological Science and Biodiversity, obtained with distinction at the University of Pisa, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi.