Monica Tolotti

Monica Tolotti is a researcher at the Research and Innovation Centre (CRI) of the Edmund Mach Foundazione (FEM, Italy) since 2004. She expert of subalpine and Alpine lakes and her studies contributed to the knowledge of planktonic and benthonic algal communities, and of the role of environmental variables as ecological drivers for numerous remote Alpine lakes. Her present activity is focussed on a) the discrimination of effects of climate change and human impact (such as eutrophication, hydroelectric exploitation, atmospheric contamination) on the ecological evolution of subalpine and Alpine lakes through the study of sediment geochemical and biological proxies; b) the effects of mountain permafrost thawing on chemistry and biodiversity of Alpine headwaters. In fact, the glacial component is predicted to drastically reduce during the next few decades, and to be gradually substituted by mountain permafrost in the role of hydrological, geochemical and biological driver of headwater dynamics.

Monica Tolotti got her Master at the University of Padua (Italy) and her PhD in Natural Sciences at the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck (Austria) in 2000. From 2000 to 2004 she worked as a project assistant at the University of Innsbruck, participating at several FP7 EU projects. During the last five years she participated and coordinated several local and EU projects, tutored Master and PhD students, organized congresses and special sessions of international congresses. She is author of >40 ISI end peer reviewed papers, book chapters and monographies, and of >80 contributions at national and international conferences, and she is guest editor of special issues of international scientific journals.

December 2016