WHO ARE WE?

CHIARA PAPETTI

Associate Professor

Associate Professsor in Ecology at the Department of Biology of the University of Padua. Her main research interest is the evolution of Antarctic fish. She has also studied other marine organisms, such as the clam Chamelea gallina and the scomber and has collaborated with several other international scientists to study, e.g. jellyfish population genetics in the Mediterranean and the tuna population genomics at world-wide scale. Chiara has spent several periods abroad, including two years and a half at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmoltz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, (Germany) for her Marie Curie intra-European scholarship, in collaboration with the group of ecophysiology by Prof. Hans-Otto Pörtner. Chiara has participated in four sampling campaigns in Antarctica between 2010 and 2018. Recently, Chiara is interested in the role of evolutionary biology in the conservation and management of marine organisms of commercial interest, for which she wants to focus on (rapid) evolution phenomena induced by anthropic pressure and environmental changes.

LUCA SCHIAVON

PhD student in Biosciences (Ecology, Evolution and Conservation)

Luca's research interest is in the population genetics of Antarctic fishes, in particular in the genus Chionodraco. He is focusing on the pattern of differentiation and dispersal of their populations and, in particular, he is exploring the possibility of hybridization among the three species of the genus. In the past, he dealt with the striped venus Chamelea gallina and he assessed the genetic variability of this highly exploited clam in the Adriatic Sea.