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Paola Grenni
Place and date of birth: Pordenone, Italy 5th September 1968
1992: Degree in Natural Science – Trieste University, – (Italy)
2011 Ph.D in Environmental Science
Senior Researcher at Water Research Institute – National research Council (IRSA-CNR), Area della Ricerca di Roma 1 Montelibretti, Via Salaria Km 29,300 CP10 00016 Monterotondo (ROME) – ITALY; Tel: +39 06 90672785; Fax: +39 06 90672787
E-mail: grenni@irsa.cnr.it
Since 1993, her main interest has been microbial ecology; she worked at ENEA casaccia and Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Since 2000 she has been worked at Water Research Institute as Assistant Researcher and in 2009 she has been a Permanent Researcher. Her main interest are microbial ecology and ecotoxicology of soil, surface and groundwater; in particular she has been involved in national and international projects on soil and groundwater contamination (pharmaceuticals; PCB; pesticides and their transformation products; fertilizers; metals; surfactants; chemical mixtures) and water quality models; recently, she has been involved in Projects aimed at the characterization of soil microbial community of the rhizosphere in phytoremediation-soil restoration. Experimental activity has included the application of methods for assessing microbial abundance, viability, activity, biomass and diversity, including molecular methods such as Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH), PCR, qPCR,etc.