I am a naturalist with a master's degree in Nature Sciences and a strong interest in studying ecosystem dynamics. Before the PhD I focused my research on amphibians, one of the most threatened groups of animals, analysing population dynamics to identify the causes of their decline. With my research, I aim to contribute to increasing our knowledge of how climate change is impacting biodiversity in high-altitude ecosystems.

I aim to understand how belowground communities develop along the ecological successions occurring after glacier retreat, with a particular focus on successional patterns and on the drivers influencing the changes in biodiversity. To do that, I am using a dataset composed by a wide range of soil organisms (bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals), collected in 1448 soil samples from 48 glacier forelands all around the world.