Junior Assistant Professor in Ecology at the Marine Science Group (BIGEA – UniBo). I am a Molecular Biologist and my research activity primarily focuses on the molecular response of marine organisms to environmental stressors, in terms of regulation of gene expression, epigenetics and eco-physiology. I also study population genetics and the mechanisms behind the adaptation of marine organisms along environmental gradients. Currently, I study the interactions between climate change, emerging contaminants, and their effects on marine biodiversity, in particular on benthic calcifying organisms in the Mediterranen Sea, along natural pH gradients. Previously, my research activity focused on the study of the molecular and physiological response of seagrasses to multiple stressors (related to both climate change and local anthropogenic impacts), the mechanisms responsible for local adaptation along natural gradients, population genetics and epigenetics (DNA methylation).