Simona Ceschin, Associate Professor of Systematic and Environmental Botany and Bioindication and Environmental Monitoring at the Department of Science, University of Roma Tre. She has been active for years in the study of the plant component of freshwater environments in order to define their floristic, vegetation, and ecological aspects for a better enhancement and management of these environments. Her main research includes (i) the study of invasive alien plant species and their impact on the ecosystem; (ii) aquatic plants as bioindicators of water quality status; (iii) macrophytes as phytoremediation agents of wastewater; or (iv) species used in phytotoxicology. Plant taxa primarily studied include species of the genera Lemna and Ludwigia.