Sara Pirroni

Consultant Aquatic Ecologist

United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Consultant Aquatic Ecologist at AECOM
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • APEM Ltd (Full-time · 1 yr 7 mos)
    • Fisheries Consultant
      Jan 2024 - Sep 2024 · 9 mos

      The role involves conducting consultancy work (writing RAMS, reports, tenders and costing, analyses of fishing data). Moreover, my role involves conducting fieldwork in freshwater habitats across the UK such as electric fishing, seine netting, water sampling, CSO assessments and flow gauging.

    • Field Scientist
      Mar 2023 - Dec 2023 · 10 mos

      The role involves conducting fieldwork in freshwater habitats across the UK. Duties include fishing (electrofishing and seine netting), use of power boats, invertebrate sampling (kick and sweep), CSO assessment, flow gauging, water sampling, writing RAMS,risk-assessments, tenders

  • Royal Holloway, University of London (3 yrs 6 mos)
    • PhD in Biological Sciences
      Sep 2019 - Feb 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      My PhD focused on investigating the role of parasites and environmental variables on the invasive success of eastern mosquitofish in Europe to aid in identifying effective management strategies for this species and conservation actions of native threatened biota such as Mediterranean killifish. Duties included writing research grants and risk-assessment reports, conducting meta-analysis, managing funding and invoices, obtaining permits, establishing new collaborations, organising and carrying out lab work and extensive fieldwork in Italy involving fish capture, maintenance and behavioural trials (2D video animations, mate choice, lateralization, feeding and competition), supervising students, publications and presenting results at domestic and international scientific conferences.

    • Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant
      Jan 2020 - Dec 2022 · 3 yrs

      Assistance of students in using lab instruments and statistical software, generating research questions and performing experimental analyses in the lab and in the field on a variety of taxa

  • Au pair at AuPairWorld
    Nov 2015 - Mar 2016 · 5 mos

  • Dottoressa in biologia at Università di Cagliari
    Oct 2011 - Jul 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Laurea triennale in Biologia