Bruna Ilde Menozzi has a PhD in “Biology and Plant Ecology in the Mediterranean Environmente”. She is a botanist and a natural scientist specialised in palynology applied to environmental archaeology. She is interested in exploring the possible uses of non-pollen palynomorphs as ecological indicators. She works as a technician at the Laboratory of Palynology and Archaeobotany of the DISTAV (http://www.distav.unige.it/) affiliated to the cir-LASA (Laboratory of Environmental Archaeology and History, Università degli Studi di Genova).