The Italian National board is made up of 6 postdocs and PhD students from different Italian institutions
Postdoctoral researcher: Institute of Polar Sciences – National Research Council of Italy.
Research fields: Glaciology, Remote Sensing
Graduated in Natural Sciences, he carried out a PhD about the ablation areas in Antarctica by remote sensing applications and now deals with the analysis of Bio-Geo Albedo feedback at the Antarctic Ice-Sheet margins
PhD student: 2nd year in Institutions and Politics, Catholic University of Milan
Research fields: History of International Relations
His PhD project focuses on the role played by Italy in Arctic exploration, with particular regard to the relation between polar expeditions and diplomacy.
Master Student: University of Genoa
Research fields: Antarctic marine ecology, machine learning.
He is a Master’s student in Marine Biology and at the University of Genoa, and his thesis work focuses on the application of machine learning for the study of the Antarctic ecosystem.
Postdoctoral Researcher: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Research fields: Contaminants in Polar Regions and the Alps.
She is a geologist with a M.Sc. in Climate Change from the University of Copenhagen and a Master in Environmental Risk from the Technical University of Madrid. Her PhD project focused on the presence, transport, and fate of emerging contaminants in polar regions.
PhD student: Polar Science, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Research fields: ice cores, trace elements.
Her PhD project is focused on the analysis of organic compounds and trace elements present in ice cores to reconstruct the evolution of the anthropogenic footprint.
PhD student: 3rd year in Environmental, Geological and Polar Sciences and Technologies. University of Siena.
Research fields: Marine Ecology
Graduated in Marine Sciences at the University of Genoa. During the PhD she worked on Antarctic Echinoderms using morphological and molecular approach and on the analysis of convergent evolution and cryptic diversity in Ophiuroids.
PhD student: 3rd year in Polar Sciences. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Research fields: Geophysics, Polar Geomorphology
Graduated in Exploration and Applied Geophysics, at the University of Pisa. Her PhD project focuses on geophysical data processing and interpretation to detect geomorphological structures formed on the seafloor during advance and retreat phases of Antarctic Ice Sheet after the Last Glacial Maximum.