Emilia Rota is a contract researcher at the Department of Physics, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, Italy. She has 93 publications with 1978 citations and an h-index of 23 (Scopus, 27 May 2025). She obtained her Ph.D. in science (zoology) from the National University of Ireland. Her main research interests are in annelid biology (systematics, morphology, ecology, biogeography), as well as pedofauna biodiversity in urban and natural areas, and the effects of environmental pollutants and climate change on the terrestrial and marine biocoenoses of temperate and polar regions. She is the group coordinator (and sole taxonomic expert) for terricolous Annelida for the EU Project Fauna Europaea.