His research interests are: (i) use of fish for the evaluation of effects of organic pollutants; (ii) development of non-invasive biomarkers of exposure using fish early life stages (embryo and eleutheroembryo); (iii) long-term studies (one and two-generation tests) to evaluate effects of emerging pollutants during growing stages and: (iv) bioaccumulation and maternal transfer of organic pollutants; (v) development of novel tools for the analysis of fish swimming behavior as biomarker of exposure to neurodevelopmental toxicants. His research work is characterized by the integrative analysis of contaminants of emerging concern (CsEC) in environmental matrices with the development of biological models for effects evaluation in order to assess the environmental risk of these chemicals. This combination has worked as a tandem for his achieving progress in the management of the environmental contamination by CsEC, and in the development of models to assess the risk of effects in aquatic organisms.
Topic 3. Resource recovery and valorization
Ecotoxicological assessment of persistent organic pollutants and emerging contaminants resorting to aquatic organism positioned at different trophic levels Potential transfer of waterborne contaminants to the soil-plant system
ecotoxicity test, emerging pollutants, persistent organic pollutants, hydroponic culture, environmental assessment of wastewater irrigation, micro and nanoplastics