Department of Life Sciences · University of Trieste
PhD candidate in Environmental Life Sciences studying how botanical gardens conserve global plant functional diversity and how living collections can serve as open laboratories for sampling hard-to-measure plant traits.
Marina Brogi is a PhD candidate in Environmental Life Sciences at the University of Trieste. Her doctoral research investigates the conservation of plant functional diversity across botanical gardens worldwide, asking how well living collections capture global variation in plant traits and how botanical gardens can be used as open laboratories for traits that are difficult to measure at large spatial scales.
Her previous research training combined experimental plant ecology, ecophysiology and biological invasions. During an Erasmus+ traineeship at the Universidade de Vigo, she worked on the invasive genus Carpobrotus and examined physiological responses to interacting temperature, drought and salinity stress under climate-change scenarios.
Her earlier work at the University of Florence addressed airborne micro- and nanoplastic pollution using Tillandsia usneoides as a plant model and biomonitor. She has also participated in field surveys across Tuscany and the Tuscan Archipelago, with experience in plant identification, vegetation surveys, functional traits, laboratory protocols and data analysis in R.
University of Florence · 110/110 cum laude. Thesis on airborne microplastic pollution and the use of Tillandsia usneoides as an environmental biomonitor.
Universidade de Vigo · experimental work on Carpobrotus, climate-change stressors, photosynthetic measurements and data analysis in R.
Poster contribution on the resilience of Carpobrotus spp. to combined temperature, drought and salinity stress in a changing world.
University of Florence · laboratory and field activities, plant identification, vegetation surveys and functional-trait measurements in Tuscany and the Tuscan Archipelago.
University of Florence · 110/110 cum laude. Thesis: “Surviving the Triple Threat: Assessing the Resilience of Carpobrotus spp. to Combined Effects of Temperature, Drought and Salinity in a Changing World”.
University of Trieste · 41st cycle. Research on functional-diversity conservation and global plant-trait representation across botanical gardens.