Francesca Cima PhD

Prof Francesca Cima was born in Padova (March 29, 1966) where she lives. On July 16, 1990, she had a degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Padova with full marks cum laude. On January 21, 1991, she was admitted into the Doctorate of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Padova, and on June 22, 1994, achieved her Ph.D. with her dissertation "Haemocytes and immunity in the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri". From 1996 to 1998, she obtained a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the research field "Evolutionary Biology" in the Department of Biology. On June 19, 1998, she was awarded the "Paolo Gatto's national prize" of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei regarding the environmental problems of the lagoon of Venice. On February 1, 1999, she obtained a two-year research collaboration fellowship in the project entitled "Differentiation and cell interactions in Tunicates" with a further two-year renewal. In 2000, she was the Scientific Chief of the Research Project for Young Researchers entitled "Development of new bioindicators and biomarkers for the study of environmental impact by organotin compounds on coastal ecosystems". On October 1, 2001, she obtained a master's in "Microscope analysis techniques in biological sciences" at the University of Pavia. From 2005 to 2018 she was an Assistant Professor in "Comparative Anatomy and Citology" at the Department of Biology, University of Padova. Since 2019, she is an Associate Professor of "Comparative Anatomy and Cytology" and teaches the courses "Cell Biology" and "Evolutionary History of Vertebrates" for the first degree in Biology. Prof Francesca Cima is a member of Unione Zoologica Italiana, Gruppo Embriologico Italiano, Associazione Italiana Naturalist, Società di Scienze Naturali del Trentino, Società Italiana di Immunobiologia Comparata e dello Sviluppo, Society for Histochemistry, and Società Italiana di Istochimica, of which she is a member of the management board since 2018.