**Stefano Magni**

Stefano Magni, Ph.D., is a Researcher of Ecology at the Department of Biosciences of the University of Milan. His research interest concerns the ecotoxicology of emerging aquatic contaminants. After receiving his master's degree in Biology (Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology), he earned a Ph.D. in Animal Biology at the University of Milan concerning the evaluation of adverse effects of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) and illicit drugs in freshwater invertebrates. From his post-doc to today, his research concerns the monitoring and the toxicity evaluation of (micro)plastics in freshwater environments and Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) using different ecotoxicological tools represented by biomarkers of cellular stress, oxidative damage, neurotoxicity and cyto-genotoxicity and "Omics" techniques. In 2017, he was a visiting researcher at the Laboratory of Prof. Franc¸ois Gagne at Environment and Climate Change Canada, Montr ´ eal, Canada, regarding ´ the evaluation of the neurotoxic effects of (micro)plastics. He is on the editorial board of the *Journal of Xenobiotics* and has authored and co-authored more than 40 publications in international scientific, peer-reviewed journals and books.
