Monica Ruffini Castiglione

Biography:

Monica Ruffini Castiglione is senior researcher and lecturer  at Botany Department, University of Pisa. Graduated in Biological Sciences in 1987, she received her PhD degree in 1993 and from 1993 to 2000 different post-doc positions. From 2001 to 2007 staff  member and from 2008 researcher position at the Department of Biology, University of Pisa. Her recent areas of interest concern the study of the stress-induced morphogenic responses following exposure to different abiotic stressors in higher plants and their employment in toxicity assessment by different endpoints. She is author and co-author of more than sixty publications in extenso and more than sixty contributions to international and national conferences.