Simonetta Corsolini (PhD in Environmental Biology, 1998) is an Assistant Professor of Ecology at the Department of Environmental Science “G. Sarfatti” of the University of Siena, Italy. Her work has been focused since the beginning on the study of endocrine disruptor and other xenobiotic bioaccumulation in food webs and the risk assessment for organisms from Antarctic and Mediterranean Seas. Main original researches have been: Presence of persistent organic pollutants in the Antarctic marine ecosystems, and biomagnification; Toxic chemicals in commercial fish and assessment of the TWI; Study of the dioxin-like compound toxicity (TEQs) in marine organisms (cetaceans, marine turtles, fish and sharks) and humans; Use of non-lethal methods to study toxic chemicals in marine harvested species and biota in marine protected areas. She participated to seven Antarctic expeditions and she is a member of the Commission for Conservation of Antarctic Living Resources Working Group on the Ecosystem Monitoring Management. She is a professor of “Ecotoxicology of Organic Contaminants” and “Analyses of Contaminants” at the Faculty of Science of the University of Siena. Affiliations: Ordinary member of the Italian Society of Ecology (SitE). Ordinary member of the Italian Society of Marine Biology (SIBM). Ordinary member of the Italian Inter-University Committee for Sea Science (CoNiSMa) Ordinary member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Ordinary member of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

List of publications

• Corsolini S., Focardi S., Kannan K., Tanabe S., Borrell A., Tatsukawa R., 1995. Congener profile and toxicity assessment of polychlorinated biphenyls in dolphins, sharks and tuna fish from Italian coastal waters. Mar. Environ Res., 40: 33-53.
• Kannan K., Corsolini S., Focardi S., Tanabe S., Tatsukawa R., 1996. Accumulation pattern of butyltin compounds in dolphin, tuna and shark collected from Italian coastal waters. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol., 31: 19-23.
• Focardi S., Corsolini S., Bianchi I., Giuliani S., 1999. Chlorinated hydrocarbons in the blue shark, Prionace glauca, of the Adriatic sea. Quad. Civ. Staz. Idrobiol. Milano, 22: 163-165.
• Focardi S., Corsolini S., Bianchi I., Giuliani S., 1999. Idrocarburi clorurati in Elasmobranchi del Mar Adriatico. Quad. Civ. Staz. Idrobiol. Milano, 22: 107-115.
• Corsolini S., 1998. “Indagine sulla contaminazione da policlorobifenili e valutazione della loro tossicità in organismi del Mare Mediterraneo e del Mare di Ross (Antartide)”. Tesi di Dottorato, Siena, Italy.
• Corsolini S., Focardi S., 2000. Polychlorobiphenyls in blue shark (Prionace glauca) from the Eastern Italian Seas. Proceeding 4th European Elasmobranch Association Meeting, Livorno, Italy, p. 47.