Jasmine Ferrario is a post-doc fellow at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Pavia, Italy. Since her doctoral project, she has investigated fouling communities in ports, with the aim of assessing the role of small recreational vessels in spreading non-indigenous species, as well as carrying out manipulating experiments on fouling communities. She has gained experience in the sampling of fouling communities with different methodologies and in the taxonomic identification of several taxa. Her experience abroad includes short scientific visits to other European or Mediterranean institutes, both for research and teaching purposes.