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Chiara Petrioli is a pioneering researcher at the forefront of underwater networking, robotics, and the Internet of Underwater Things. Her work masterfully blends communications, networking, and autonomous systems to enable cooperative, heterogeneous marine robot teams. She has made seminal contributions to the design of advanced acoustic networking protocols that allow multiple underwater vehicles to coordinate and share data in real time, overcoming the severe challenges of the underwater channel. Her leadership of the DAMPS project introduced multi-robot systems for passive acoustic source localization, a breakthrough for environmental monitoring and security. Petrioli’s impact is evident in her highly cited works, including the AURORA multi-sensor dataset (21 citations) and foundational papers on underwater cooperation and mobile IoT data collection. She has also advanced the concept of an "Underwater Internet of Things," extending connectivity to subsea critical infrastructure. Through projects like these, Petrioli has established herself as a key architect of the future of autonomous ocean exploration and monitoring, enabling long-lived, intelligent robotic operations in one of Earth’s most challenging environments.