Francesco Polazzo is PhD student in the Ecotoxicology group at the IMDEA Water Institute of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid. Francesco is part of the ITN project ECORISk2050. Within this project, he is studying how climate change in combination with others drivers of environmental change (pesticides, eutrophication, changes in hydrology) affect the stability and the vulnerability of aquatic communities.

Career

• since 2019 - PhD student at the IMDEA Water Institute (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain)
• 2018-2019 - Internship at the faculty of Ecology of the University of Innsbruck (Austria)
• 2015-2018 - MSc in Global change ecology, Faculty of life science, University of Trieste (Italy)
• 2012-2015 - BSc in Biology, Faculty of life science, University of Trieste (Italy)