My name is Gianuario Fortunato, I am Italian and I have a bachelor's and master's degree in Molecular and cellular biology at the University of Bologna. The first work field I worked in was the bioreduction of heavy metals, mostly tellurium, by purple bacteria. My interest in the microbiology field continued during my Ph.D. at Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, part of a European project financed by Horizon 2020 Marie Curie grant. The project named ANSWER: ANtibioticS and mobile resistance elements in WastEwater Reuse applications: risks and innovative solutions, is focusing on the antibiotic resistance diffusion in the environment through the wastewater treatment to agricultural soil and edible plant. Since October 2023 I joined Prof. Ana Paula Mucha's group at CIIMAR as a junior researcher part of BIOSYSMO project, focussed on bioremediation and phytoremediation of polluted estuarine environments. In parallel, I am going to continue studying antibiotic resistance in estuarine, river and seawater, integrating different methodological approaches. I am in particular interested in antibiotic resistance prevention applying different techniques from molecular biology to genomics and mostly predictive models. For this reason, since September 2023 I joined a professional data science course at EDIT school, aiming to improve statistical and predictive analysis.