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Francesco Polazzo

visiting PhD student

Portrait of Francesco Polazzo

visiting PhD student

IMDEA Water institute

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Interests

Effects of multiple disturbances on ecological stability Vulnerability of aquatic ecosystem to climate change Community ecology

Education

  • MSc in Global change ecology, 2015-2018
    University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
  • BSc in Biology, 2012-2015
    University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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)

Publications (1)

A modelling approach to assess climate change impacts on taxonomic and functional diversity of European stream macroinvertebrates: Implications for water quality monitoring (2024) · Ecological Indicators, 166, 112404

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