Maria Belen Sathicq

An Argentinean biologist, living and working in Italy, Maria Belen has a BSc in Biology, from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and a PhD from the same University specialising in water quality assessment. Before arriving at the Molecular Ecology Group (IRSA-CNR) she worked on the use of phytoplankton as a pollution indicator, with emphasis on cyanobacteria. Currently she has an AXA postdoctoral fellowship with her project ENEAS, which aims to understand the role of microplastics in the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria in the Tyrrhenian Sea.