Sarah Pizzini

Graduated in Chemical Sciences at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2013 and licensed to practice as a chemist, I deal mainly with anthropogenic impact assessment on the environment, environmental and food contamination, development and validation of analytical methods in mass spectrometry and related hyphenated techniques.

From 2013 to 2019 I have worked as an analytical environmental chemist as Research Scientist at the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes (CNR–IDPA Venice); from 2019 to 2022 I have worked in the same position at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics of Ca’ Foscari, of which I am Honorary Fellow in the Scientific Disciplinary Sector CHIM/01 – Analytical Chemistry since 2014. In 2022 I joined the Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology (CNR–IRBIM Ancona) as a Researcher.

My research interests encompass the determination of persistent and emerging organic contaminants in different environmental matrices and biota, their sources and pathways toward remote and polar regions; the effects of climate change on the re-emission in the environment of pollutants and anthropogenic tracers; the past climate reconstructions through organic proxies of Sea Surface Temperature; the reconstruction of the pollution history through the determination of legacy contaminants in ice cores and other environmental archives.

Involved in several research projects, I authored peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, communications to congresses, and scientific reports. I did teaching activities and held the co-advisor and tutor position in 13 degree theses in Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Chemistry and Technologies.

As a winner of the Arctic Field Grant 2021 with the project In-flame – INputs of FLuorinated compounds from Arctic MElting, I attended a research expedition at the Svalbard islands in cooperation with the Norsk Polarinstitutt of Tromsø-Longyearbyen.