Claudia Agnini is the only Italian university researcher selected for the “Expedition 371”, one of the most important international associations (USA – Japan – Europe) for deep ocean perforations called IODP – International Ocean Discovery Program – (https://www.iodp.org/#). It is Agnini’s second research experience after her first one in 2012 where she studied the perforations of the Northwest Atlantic area south of Newfoundland in Canada. Agnini is a researcher from the Department of Geosciences at the University of Padua. She will depart on July 27 from Townsville, Australia on-board of the Joides Resolution ship (http://joidesresolution.org/).