Serena Caucci is a Research Assistant in the Waste Management Unit at the UNU Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES). She works on academic and capacity development activities in waste management aspects within the Water-Soil-Waste Nexus, supports the process of research product development, and contributes to the ongoing capacity development work related to multi-stakeholder projects such as Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture. Before joining UNU-FLORES, Serena worked at the Institute of Hydrobiology at Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) on water, sanitation and antibiotic resistance in anthropogenic-driven environments. She received her Master in Environmental Science degree from the University of Florence in Italy and is writing her PhD thesis on environmental microbiology (wastewater management and water body pollution by antibiotic resistance) at TU Dresden in Germany.