Affiliation: University of L’Aquila, Environmental Sciences section, Dept. MeSVA

Marika Pellegrini is a Postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Microbiology. She graduated with the highest qualification in Biology from the University of L'Aquila (Italy). She completed her PhD in Food Sciences from the University of Teramo, along with performing 6 months of research experience at the IPOA laboratory of the University of Miguel Hernández de Elche (Spain). She received her PhD with honours and the Doctor Europaeus certification in 2018. Since 2018 she works at the Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology (University of L’Aquila). Her main research projects are on the selection, characterization, and exploitation of beneficial bacteria for sustainable productions (bio-agriculture, biopolymers, and bioremediation) and molecular characterization of environmental biomes. She has published 30 scientific articles in several international journals, in which she appears as the first author or as the corresponding author. She is the manager of several national scientific projects and supervises the laboratory activities of research fellows and residents.