The EMG group is headed by Antonio Di Guardo, professor at the Department of Science and High Technology of the University of Insubria at Como.
Antonio Di Guardo
Antonio received his degree in Agricultural Science in 1989, and a PhD in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Ecology of Pesticides in 1994, both from the University of Milan.
Then he was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada (1994-1996),
developing models to predict the fate of chemicals in the environment. After being Assistant Professor of Ecology at the University of Insubria at Varese (1996-2005),
he become Associate Professor of Ecology at the University of Insubria at Como (2005-2020).
He is now Full Professor of Ecology.
His main object of research is the development of environmental fate models capable to describe and predict the multimedia pathways of organic chemicals in
several environmental scenarios.
Elisa Terzaghi
Elisa is a post-doc and her research topics are mainly focused on the role of different factors involved in the environmental fate of organic contaminants (exposure assessment) within the ecosystem risk assessment evaluation:
1) soil/litter/vegetation/air interaction in the cycles of organic contaminants such as PCBs, PAHs, PCDDs, PCDFs, and the role of the ecological parameters that influence the temporal and spatial variability of the plant uptake of these contaminants
2) study of the factors that influence the persistence, bioavailability and degradation of organic contaminants in soil considering plant-microbe interactions
3) modelling of these processes for a predictive evaluation of the environmental fate of organic contaminants and therefore of the exposure of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
Parisa Falakdin
Parisa is a Ph.D. student and the topic of her research activity is mainly focused on the development of environmental fate models capable of predicting time and space resolved chemical concentrations. She is also working on the development of predictive relationships for polar chemicals to be used in fate models.
Former Post Doc Fellows
Luca Nizzetto
Melissa Morselli
Former PhD Students
Alfonso Infantino
Chiara Maria Vitale
Davide Ghirardello
Elisa Terzaghi
Luca Nizzetto
Melissa Morselli
Former Master Students
Ada Gabriela Pohlenz
Alessandro Antichi
Alessandro Borgini
Alfonso Infantino
Antonella Arcuri
Antonella Zichella
Arianna Caccia
Chiara Cassani
Claudia Ferrari
Cristina Macchi
Cristina Pastore
Dario Zati
Davide Ghirardello
Elena Saporiti
Elisa Terzaghi
Fatima Tavecchio
Francesca Bracchitta
Gabriele Zacchello
Georgia Salina
Ilaria Colombo
Luca Nizzetto
Manuela Frisone
Melissa Morselli
Paolo Camporini
Serena Zaccara
Sonia Ullucci
Thomas Mercurio
Former Undergraduate Students
Alessia Lipari
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Gaion
Daniele Badiali
Elisa Giovanniello
Fatima Tavecchio
Federica Tagni
Francesca Frascoli
Gianluca Massafra
Gianmaria Cetti
Iacopo Ferrario
Licia Ripamonti
Luisa Miano
Marcello Testa
Marco Scacchi
Roberto Giudici
Serena Marin
Simona Kovarich
Virginia Vona