Sabina Bigi is associate professor at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and the head of the tectonics and fluid chemistry laboratory of the Earth Sciences Department where she coordinates a group of researchers who have a great deal of experience in geochemical and structural geology and social sciences (http://tetide.geo.uniroma1.it/strtuture/laboratori/laboratore-di-chimica-de-fluidi). He is the coordinator of the RESPIRE Life16 ENV / IT / 000553 project (www.liferespire.it).