Simona Aracri

Simona Aracri is a permanent Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy – Institute of Marine Engineering. Previously Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Edinburgh, working on offshore robotic sensors. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture . She also holds a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the National Oceanography Centre – University of Southampton.  She has spent more than 6 months at sea on oceanographic sampling campaigns, in the Mediterranean Sea, Pacific Ocean and the North Sea. Her research interests encompass: the application of robotics for observational oceanography and environmental monitoring. She is interested in the entire process of data collections, from the device design to the deployment setting and, ultimately, in the resulting data.