Milena Menna studied Environmental Science at the University of Naples Parthenope (Italy) and earned her Ph.D. degree in Science and Engineering of the Sea at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) in 2008. From 2008 to 2012 she worked as a post-doc researcher at the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS - Trieste, Italy); since August 2012 she has been a researcher at OGS. Her research interests include the study of ocean circulation, mesoscale and sub-basin scale eddies, currents and water mass properties in semi-enclosed seas, remote sensing (satellites), and autonomous measurement instruments (drifter and floats).