PhD student at the IRBIM-CNR, under the “Innovative Technologies and Sustainable Use of Mediterranean Sea Fishery and Biological Resources” (FishMed-PhD) program. My research focuses primarily on the effects of seawater warming and acidification on the ecology and biology of calcifying marine organisms such as corals and molluscs. My PhD project is focused on the effect of increasing seawater acidity on the bioaccumulation of contaminants by Mediterranean corals and the effect of the interannual variability of the fluvial runoff and different environmental conditions on the growth and bioaccumulation of contaminant in an economically relevant Adriatic clam.