Fabio Crocetta is a senior researcher in the Integrative Marine Ecology Department at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn. He earned a B.Sc. from the Department of Zoology at the University of Naples Federico II in 2006, an M.Sc. from the Department of Life Science of the University of Trieste in 2010 and a Ph.D. in the Biology and Evolution of Marine Organisms from the University of Naples Federico II in 2014. He is interested in combining a multidisciplinary approach with the aim of studying the North-Eastern Atlantic marine benthic biodiversity, with an emphasis on the Mediterranean biota.