Senior scientists


Italian team

Nadia Bazihizina

Assistant Professor,  Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Andrea Coppi

Associate Professor,  Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Federico Cappa

Assistant Professor,  Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Federico Martellozzo

Associate Professor,  Department of Economics and Management, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Antonella Castagna

Associate Professor,  Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Università degli Studi di Pisa

Marco Santin

Postdoc researcher,  Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Università degli Studi di Pisa



Portughese team

Luísa Custódio

Principal Researcher, Centro de Ciências do Mar do Algarve





Spanish team

José Antonio Hernández Cortés

Principal Research, Group of Fruit Biotechnology, Department of Fruit Breeding, CEBAS-CSIC, Spain 

Pedro Díaz Vivancos


Senior Researcher CSIC


Gregorio Barba Espín 


Contracted Researcher Ramón y Cajal Program 


Polish team

Katarzyna Hrynkiewiczn 

Professor, Department 
of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Veterinary Science, Nicolaus 
Copernicus University, 

Bliss Ursula Furtado

Assistant Professor, Department 
of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Veterinary Science, Nicolaus 
Copernicus University, Torun

Dominika Theim 

Investigator and Technical Assistant, Department 
of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Veterinary Science, Nicolaus 
Copernicus University

Kristine Petrosyan

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of 
Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Veterinary Science, Nicolaus 
Copernicus University. Guest Researcher, Centre for Environmental 
Sciences, Hasselt University, Belgium.

Tunisian team

Karim Ben Hamed

Principal Research, Centre of Biotechnolgy of Borj Cedria 95 Tunisia 2050 Hammam Lif





Imed Riadh Farah

Professor, Manouba School of Engeneering, Manouba University

Ali Ben Abbes

Manouba School of Engeneering, Manouba University



Dutch team

Katarzyna Negacz

Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 

Ananya Tiwari

Postdoc researcher, Department of Environmental Policy Analysis,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam