Sarah PIZZINI

Graduated in Chemical Sciences (Class LM–54) at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice in 2013 and licensed to practice as a chemist in 2016, I deal mainly with anthropogenic impact assessment on the environment, environmental and food contamination, development and validation of analytical methods in mass spectrometry and related hyphenated techniques.

Honorary Fellow at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics (DAIS) in the Scientific Disciplinary Sector CHIM/01 – Analytical Chemistry since 2014. From 2013 to 2019 I have worked as an analytical environmental chemist as Research Scientist at the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes of the Italian National Research Council (CNR–IDPA Venice); from 2019 to 2022 I have worked in the same position at the DAIS. In 2022 I joined the Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology of the Italian National Research Council (CNR–IRBIM Ancona) as a Researcher.

My research interests encompass the determination of persistent and emerging organic contaminants in different environmental matrices and biota, their sources and pathways toward remote and polar regions; the effects of climate change on the re-emission in the environment of pollutants and anthropogenic tracers; the past climate reconstructions through organic proxies of Sea Surface Temperature; the reconstruction of the pollution history through the determination of legacy contaminants in ice cores and other environmental archives.

Involved in several research projects, I published scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals, book chapters, communications to national and international congresses, and scientific reports. I did teaching activities and held the co-advisor and tutor position in 13 degree theses in Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Chemistry and Technologies.

As a winner of the Arctic Field Grant 2021 with the project In-flame – INputs of FLuorinated compounds from Arctic MElting, I attended a research expedition at the Svalbard islands in cooperation with the Norsk Polarinstitutt of Tromsø-Longyearbyen.