Dr. Irene Guarneri, Ph.D. (female), is a Biologist researcher at the National Research Council, Institute of Marine Science, Venice headquarters (CNR-ISMAR). Her field of study is the ecology of both freshwater environment and coastal transitional ecosystems (lagoons and estuaries) mainly based on the study of benthic organisms. Those biotic compartment is the base of her study of environmental quality through biomonitoring techniques, but also as key topic as in the study of alien species, both during her doctorate on freshwater environment and then at the Institute of Marine Science, focusing in this last case on species inhabit lagoons and coastal waters. In the last seven years she also extended her works on bioconstructor and biodemolitor species evaluating the oyster reef and the wood bioerosion caused by peracarids and shipworms, with particular regards to the Cultural Heritage. She is actually involved in national and international projects aim to study oyster in lagoon of Venice and in the protection of wood from the xilofagous organisms attack. In addition, she is collaborating in a project of habitat mapping where her biologist-ecologist background is applied for the description of high-resolution acoustic data coupled with video surveys and others two projects to map and recover marine litter with a view to blue economy. She is author or co-author of more than 30 publications on water ecology (14 JCR)