Prof. Diana Maria Paola Galassi is a full professor of Zoology at the Department of Life, Health, and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila. She took up service as an Associate Professor in 2015. She received her Degree in Biological Sciences at the MM.FF.NN Faculty of Sciences at the University of L'Aquila in 1984. Her research interests include marine and freshwater biology, environmental sciences and ecology, water resources, zoology, toxicology, freshwater biology, groundwater ecology, groundwater biology, groundwater biodiversity, crustaceans, hyporheic biology, and ecology.