First person – Nicola Rossi

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Nicola Rossi is first author on ‘ Oviductal fluid counterbalances the negative effect of high temperature on sperm in an ectotherm model ’, published in BiO. Nicola is a PhD student in the lab of Margarita Chiaraviglio and Gabriela Cardozo at Instituto IDEA, Córdoba, Argentina, studying the effects of global warming on seuxal selection and social mechanisms in a lizard species native to South America, Tropidurus spinulosus .