Federico Clementoni completed his master's degree in Marine Biology in February 2022 (110/110, with honors) and his bachelor's degree in February 2019 at the Polytechnic University of Marche (UNIVPM) in Ancona, Italy. The master's thesis entitled "Quantitative and macromolecular assessment of hepatic melanomacrophages and lipids as promising tools for the conservation of elasmobranchs in the Adriatic Sea" was carried out at the Developmental and Reproductive Biology Laboratory at UNIVPM. The thesis work allowed him to learn histological and imaging techniques as well as the use of FT-IR spectroscopy. In October 2023, he started an intersectoral PhD carried out partly in a non-academic environment at EPAL (Empresa Portuguesa das Águas Livres) in Lisbon and in an academic environment at the Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), in Faro, where he previously carried out a voluntary pre-doctoral internship in June 2023, within the marine pollution project MicroWaste. Under the scope of his PhD research, in May 2025 he carried out a research stay at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, within the Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology, and Immunology, where he performed experiments on Sparus aurata juveniles exposed to nanoplastics and carbamazepine under the MicroFish and MicroWaste projects; in October 2025, he participated in the Expedição Pedra do Valado 2025, aimed at initiating scientific monitoring of the Parque Natural Marinho do Recife do Algarve – Pedra do Valado (PNMRA-PV). During this expedition, he was part of the team responsible for the collection of water samples for microplastic analysis; In December 2025, he carried out an experimental research activity at SEBio, University of Le Havre (France), aimed at assessing the estrogenic activity of selected recalcitrant pharmaceutical compounds on European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) estrogen receptors using the DLES assay. In March 2023 he took part, under the affiliation of SharkLab ADRIA, in the Acoustic Telemetry Workshop held by InnovaSea in Vlorë, Albania. Between November 2022 and February 2023, he carried out an internship at the IRTA of Sant Carles de La Rapìta (Catalonia, Spain) where he was able to observe the effects of different diets on the growth of sea bream (Sparus aurata), he was able to take part in weight and measurement of farmed fish and had the opportunity to learn homogenization techniques of biological tissues from bivalves and teleosts and enzymatic analysis for the evaluation of oxidative stress. Between May 2022 and June 2022, he worked on a Maltese towing vessel as an ICCAT National observer of bluefin tuna fishing. In August 2021 he carried out an internship at SharkLab Malta where he performed visual census surveys for the project Fly with Bull Rays as well as census and measurements of elasmobranchs caught by Maltese fishing vessels in the main fish market and collection of eggs from oviparous species for incubation, hatching, and future release in the wild. Other activities carried out in the internship were beach clean-ups and the dissection of dead specimens of elasmobranchs for education and divulgation purposes. Between April 2019 and September 2019, he carried out an internship at the MISE Lab of the University of the Ryukyus (Okinawa, Japan) where he carried out activities such as sample collection of coral rubble and coral rubble¿s cryptofauna; cryptofauna identification and sorting; DNA extraction; PCR; underwater transect in coral reefs; comparison between control sites and sites where corals were transplanted from artificial nurseries; coral identification; sea cucumber sampling.