I am a research fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Torino. My research mostly focusses on the biosedimentology and paleoceanographic interpretation of diatomaceous and evaporitic sediments formed in the Mediterranean region during the Miocene epoch and in particular during the Messinian, when the Mediterranean basin was transformed in the youngest salt giant of Earth history. In my work, I combine different approaches (petrography, micropaleontology, mineralogy and geochemistry) for reconstructing the depositional environments in which these extraordinary geobiological archives formed.