Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland
I am an environmental chemist with six years of experience in research and development of new analytical methods for the identification of trace elements and organic compounds in snow and ice using various analytical techniques, including ICP-MS and UHPLC-HRMS. Driven by my experience in project writing and management, I secured two highly competitive international research grants, which involved me in coordinating logistics in the Arctic and collaborations among four research institutions. I published more than 19 scientific papers in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, eight of them as first author. I have a special talent and passion for teaching and student mentoring as I believe in the importance of inspiring the youngest generations in environmental and climate-related topics by nurturing their critical thinking and creativity. Driven by my passion for science communication, I independently produce a weekly podcast on Spotify, and I manage a scientific Instagram page, reaching more than 5k followers.
Principal Investigator of the Spark project Ice2Ocean, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (100.000 CHF) • Keynote speaker at the CH-QUAT annual meeting • Managing fieldwork activities in the Arctic (Svalbard): P.I. for the SNOWFAS field campaign (100.000 NOK) • Participation to international conferences with oral and poster contributions (EGU25, ICCE25) • Invited lecturer at ICAT2025 School (University of Copenhagen)
Lead the research project “Reconstruction of pre-industrial to industrial changes of organic aerosols from glacier ice cores” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and independently coordinated inter-university collaborations between the University of Bern and the University of Frankfurt. • Data analysis and publication of results in high-ranking peer-reviewed scientific journals • Grant writing for highly competitive calls (SNF Spark, SNF Starting Grant, ERC Starting Grant) • International collaborations with the University of Frankfurt to perform pioneering non-target screening studies on Greenland ice cores • Laboratory management
Lead the research project “Reconstruction of pre-industrial to industrial changes of organic aerosols from glacier ice cores” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and coordinated intra-laboratory collaborations within the Paul Scherrer Institute. • Processing and cutting ice samples in cold-room (-20°C) • Participation to field campaigns in the Swiss Alps (Mount Rose) as participant within the international Ice Memory project and Svalbard Archipelago (Ny-Alesund) as principal investigator within the BioProxies project. • Developed a new method for the non-target screening analysis of ice-core samples with UHPLC-HRMS (Orbitrap) • Grant writing for highly competitive calls (SNF Starting Grant, Arctic Field Grant) • Principal Investigator of the project “BioProxies” funded by the Norwegian Research Council (Arctic Field Grant, 90.000 NOK) • Co-supervision of PhD Student from the University of Bern • Co-supervision of a master student from the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice • Teaching assistant for the course “Atmospheric Chemistry” in 2021 and 2024 at the University of Bern • Outreach activities and responsible for relations with media (The Guardian, Reuters, BBC, RSI) • Attendance to international scientific conferences (AGM, IPICS, ICCE, SWISS POLAR DAY, EGU, COP26) • Writing and publishing scientific paper on high-rank peer-reviewed journals
Lead scientific research for the development and application of analytical method for the identification of soluble iron species and halogens (bromine, iodine) in ice cores, using advanced continuous flow analysis method and ICP-SFMS • Analytical method development • Teaching assistant for the Ca’Foscari-Harvard Summer School • Writing and publishing scientific papers on high-rank peer-reviewed journals • Fieldwork activities in Greenland (EGRIP) and Svalbard (Ny-Alesund) where I was Station Leader of the Italian Arctic Station Dirigibile Italia • Italian delegate for the Ice Memory project at the UNESCO: presentation of the project to international stakeholders to obtain the UNESCO endorsement.