"A PhD student in physical oceanography at the Italian National Research Council in La Spezia, Italy. Her research area is the Mediterranean Sea, where she is focused on the climatic effects of changing circulation, and experimental and modelling studies, in particular on dynamic processes influencing the water massesÂ’ characteristics and distribution, the interannual variability in the Western Mediterranean Sea with regard to physical and biogeochemical properties of the different water massesÂ’, water and nutrients exchanges.