ERC: Camilla Sguotti

Camilla Sguotti graduated in Marine Biology from the University of Padova in 2014. After the graduation, she moved to Hamburg, Germany, where she spent six years pursuing her doctoral and postdoctoral research and visiting different Institutes worldwide. Her work focused on nonlinear and non-stationary dynamics in marine populations and communities, with particular attention to cod and to specific phenomena known as regime shifts. In 2019, she obtained her PhD from the University of Hamburg as part of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network. After three years as a postdoctoral researcher, she returned to the University of Padova in 2022 thanks to a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, with the aim of developing innovative methods to estimate the resilience of marine ecosystems. In 2024, she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the project FEEDRES and, in February 2025, she became Associate Professor of Ecology at the Department of Biology of the University of Padova. Her research focuses on the temporal and spatial dynamics of marine populations and communities, with particular emphasis on nonlinear changes and regime shifts. She employs advanced statistical approaches to investigate how anthropogenic pressures — such as fishing and climate change — affect the structure and resilience of marine ecosystems. A central goal of her work is to quantify ecological resilience in order to predict and anticipate potential future transitions.