Fantina Madricardo

Fantina Madricardo, laurea (equivalent of MSc) in Physics (1999) University of Padova, PhD in Physics (2002), University of Hamburg, Germany, Post-Doc position (2008) at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. She is staff member researcher at ISMAR since 2012. Her main research topics are applied geophysics and underwater acoustics, focussing on seafloor mapping and geomorphology, and, more recently passive acoustics. She interested in development of methods for semi-automatic classification of multibeam echosounder data for seabed sediment characterization, benthic habitat mapping and seafloor marine litter mapping, geomorphometric analysis of seafloor morphologies and anthropogenic physical change. Within the national research project RITMARE, she coordinated an extensive multibeam survey in the very shallow waters of the Venice Lagoon obtaining extremely high resolution seafloor data. She was the coordinator of the EASME/EMFF marGnet project (www.margnet.eu) and she is currently the project coordinator of the H2020 MAELSTROM (www.maelstrom-h2020.eu) focusing on new technologies to face the marine litter issue. She coordinates for CNR-ISMAR the Italy-Croatia Interreg Project SOUNDSCAPE (https://www.italy-croatia.eu/web/soundscape) and she is involved in the H2020 SATURN (https://www.saturnh2020.eu/) focussing on the undewater noise issue. She is also involved in the  projects H2020 ENDURUNS (https://enduruns.eu/) and 4S (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101004221)  and in the Interreg Italy-Croatia INNOVAMARE developing robotic solutions for the marine environment observation.