Daniela BALDANTONI | Curriculum

Daniela Baldantoni, born in Naples (Italy) on September 15th 1972, obtained a degree with honours in Biological Sciences in 1997, at the University of Naples Federico II, discussing an experimental degree thesis in Ecology on “Biomonitoring of air quality in Naples. Comparison between 1989 and 1996”.
In 1998 she obtained a six-month scholarship at the Department of Vegetal Biology, University of Naples Federico II, for a research on “Elemental analysis of higher plant leaves”, as regards to a P.O.P. Project (5.4.2./1997).
In 2002 she discussed a Ph.D. Thesis in Terrestrial Ecology (Plants and Soil) on “Lake Averno plants as monitors of lake system contamination”, after a three-year course at University of Naples Federico II.
In the years 2002-2005 she obtained numerous agreements of scientific collaboration with University of Naples Federico II (Department of Vegetal Biology), with University of Salerno (Department of Chemistry) and with the Experimental Institute on Industrial Crops (ISCI) in Battipaglia (Salerno).
As from November 1st 2005 she is Researcher at Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Salerno, Italy.
The main researches concern the following topics:

- accumulation of organic and inorganic pollutants in biological matrices aimed at biomonitoring and phytodepuration of contaminated aquatic and terrestrial systems;

- assessment of atmospheric depositions by elemental analysis of forest and urban soils;

- decomposition of litter in relation to natural and anthropogenic factors;

- degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soil and in litter of holm oak leaves;

- effects of mineral fertilizers and organic amendments on soil microbial communities, crop productivity and spontaneous revegetation of degraded soils;

- risk of contamination of agricultural soil from heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for use of mineral fertilizers and/or organic amendments;

- systematics, phylogeny, ecology and ecophysiology of higher plants;

- chemometric analysis of soils with innovative techniques, aimed at the prediction of multiple edaphic parameters.