Editorial Board Member

Tania Martellini is an associate professor at the Department of Chemistry DICUS of the University of Florence (SSD CHIM/01). In 2020 she worked in the same department as a senior research fellow within the European project LIFE17 ENV/SK/000355- APEX studying the contamination by classical and emerging persistent organic contaminants found in predator species and their prey. The evaluation of the distribution, transport, and environmental fate of persistent organic compounds (POPs) in various matrices (air, water, snow/ice, soil, and biota) has been a topic that has characterized her scientific history since her degree thesis and has also been the subject of her Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences in 2009. She has participated in various sampling and analysis campaigns in both urban and remote areas. In particular, as part of the Galileo project, carried out in collaboration with the CNRS in Grenoble, she took part in a snow and air sampling campaign in the French Alps, assessing the influence of altitudinal transport on POPs concentrations in mountain areas and studying their presence in surface snow samples. In this context she received a grant from ARFAC (European Centre for Arctic Environmental Research) to carry out the research "The fate of POPs in the snowpack -SNOW POP", which led her to coordinate the research activities carried out at the Italian station "Dirigible Italia" in Ny-Alesund (Svalbard Islands - Norway - North Pole). In 2010 she took part in the XXVI Italian expedition to Antarctica at the Mario Zucchelli station (Terranova Bay - Antarctica) as part of the POPs-LAB project where, in addition to coordinating the scientific activities of the project during the Antarctic campaign, she was responsible for the sampling of air, water, snow, ice and organisms, and for the laboratory experiments carried out at the base concerning the ecophysiology of organisms in response to stress factors. On her return to Italy, she was responsible for setting up the analytical methods, and laboratory analyses, processing the data collected, and writing scientific articles with the data collected. Her research on remote areas led her to take part in various PNRA projects in which she contributed her expertise to the study of the sources and long-range transport of organic contaminants in different environmental matrices. In parallel to these activities, she has actively participated in numerous research projects on the determination of organic contaminants in anthropogenic areas as part of projects funded by public and private companies. To date, TM's scientific production includes a total of 80 publications as follows: 64 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, 9 scientific publications in international journals with ISSN, 4 book chapters, 3 proceedings of international conferences, and over 90 communications at national and international conferences.

POPs, Microplastics, Emerging contaminants, Analytical methods, Legacy POPs, WWTPs, Seawater, Ecotoxicology