Maria is a geologist with five years of experience in environmental consulting, particularly in the fields of soil and groundwater investigations, characterisation plans, environmental monitoring, emergency measures, remediation of contaminated sites and technical support for legal proceedings and litigation cases. Maria has also three years of experience in mining consulting with particular expertise in geological surveys and sampling for mining prospection and exploitation, and in setting, calibrating and the use of analytical devices including x-ray fluorescence (XRF), inductive coupled plasma (ICP), x-ray powder diffractometer (XRD), electron microprobe (EMP) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). Maria has worked at several Italian industrial sites including Sites of National Interest (SIN).