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Chiara Consolaro is a researcher working in the Microplastic lab within the section for Environmental Contaminants. Her main tasks are sample preparation and analysis of Microplastics particles in different matrices (soil, sediments, water and biota). Her background is in Geology, as she obtained a Master degree and a PhD in Earth Science at Padua University in Italy. Her research projects during her studies and postdocs were mainly focused on the reconstruction of the environment and the climate in the past with the help of foraminifera, tiny unicellular organisms with calcareous shells that can provide information about the climate, the environment, and the chemistry of the ocean.
She has a wide experience in laboratory techniques that she has developed through time in different laboratories (University of Padua, Italy; University of Stockholm, Sweden; University of Tromsø, Norway; University of Plymouth, UK). She in now applying her knowledge and new skills in microplastic analysis on environmental samples in several microplastics programs like the Norwegian monitoring program MIKRONOR and other research and monitoring projects. More recently she has been involved in the European project PAPILLIONS, where she is the main responsible and coordinator for the sample preparation and microplastic analyses of more than 600 agricultural soil samples. She is writing a paper as first author about the method used to purify soil samples for the PAPILLONS project and she has presented already some results in the MICRO international conference 2024.
She has a wide experience in laboratory techniques that she has developed through time in different laboratories (University of Padua, Italy; University of Stockholm, Sweden; University of Tromsø, Norway; University of Plymouth, UK). She in now applying her knowledge and new skills in microplastic analysis on environmental samples in several microplastics programs like the Norwegian monitoring program MIKRONOR and other research and monitoring projects. More recently she has been involved in the European project PAPILLIONS, where she is the main responsible and coordinator for the sample preparation and microplastic analyses of more than 600 agricultural soil samples. She is writing a paper as first author about the method used to purify soil samples for the PAPILLONS project and she has presented already some results in the MICRO international conference 2024.