Our Faculty are at the forefront of research in the Extreme Environments and Astrobiology

Researcher in Physiology, interested in the regulation of energy balance and metabolic adaptative changes of the whole organism and individual organs in response to different stimuli related to food consumption.

Associate Professor in Ecology interested in plant adaptation to multiple stresses and plant surviving in extreme environments.

Associate Professor of Zoology. He carries out his research activity at the Department of Biology dealing with evolutionary topics in species of conservation and management interest. He is particularly interested upon specific adaptations in populations under strong selective pressures.

Associate professor in hygiene interested in the anthropocene implications in a one-health perspective

Assistant Professor in Organic Chemistry, interested in surface glycolipids and polysaccharides from extremophiles

Associate professor in genetics, interested in sex determination of insects of economic interests and insects from extreme environments

Associate professor in organic chemistry, interested in the chemistry and photochemistry of natural and synthetic melanins. Within this context, part of the research activity is focused on the study of the main transformations of PAHs under experimental conditions of astrochemical and prebiotic relevance.