Anna Maria ADDAMO (Former member of the team)
Anna M. Addamo (PhD.) is a biologist specialized in marine and evolutionary biology.
Her research focuses on molecular ecology of coral reefs, including corals population genetics, phylogeography, taxonomy and systematics (mainly cold water corals). Biological monitoring, marine conservation and fisheries management are also included in her interests.
She also has strong experience in field surveys - carried out in Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Red Sea and Pacific Ocean - investigating benthic community composition and structure of coral reefs, with emphasis in MPAs ecosystems.
She has been working as a Trainee at the Water Resource Unit of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (JRC), and she joined the EASIN Team in September 2015. Her role was to contribute to the enrichment of EASIN-Lit database and to review the scientific and grey literature aiming to update the occurrences and geo-referenced spatial data of IAS.