Dr. Laura Selbmann is an Associate Professor Associate Professor of Botany and Mycology, Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences (DEB), UNITUS. She earned her M.Sc. degree in Biology from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, and Ph.D. in Biological and Biochemical Evolution, University of Tuscia (UNITUS), Italy. From 2000 to 2006, she worked as a Postdoc on the biodiversity of Antarctic endolithic communities at DEB, University of Tuscia. From 2006 to 2015, she was a Senior Researcher in Botany at DEB, UNITUS. She is a Principal Investigator on Antarctic Projects funded by the Italian National Program for Antarctic Researches (PNRA). Her research interests include the Antarctic cryptoendolithic microbial communities and life forms spreading at the edge for life as model systems to investigate the evolution and adaptation throughout extremes and to explore them as early alarm systems for monitoring the effect of climate change.
