Researcher at Biomolecular Science Department of the University of Urbino. I have a degree in Biological Sciences and I received my Ph.D. degree in Environmental Science at the University of Urbino, in 2010.  Scientific skills: molecular ecology of marine phytoplankton communities, population genetic analysis of toxic marine phytoplankton, development of molecular techniques for the quantification of toxic microalgal species, monitoring campaigns, metabarcoding molecular data analysis of marine plankton. I provide support for teaching activities of Ecology courses.