Donatello Elia

Donatello Elia

Donatello Elia holds a B.Sc. degree in Information Technology and a M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering. In 2013, he joined the Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) division at the CMCC Foundation and he has been involved in various European projects.
His main research interests include high performance, cloud and distributed computing, data-intensive analytics (HPDA), big and scientific data management.[/ultimate_modal]

Antonio Aloisio

Antonio Aloisio

Antonio joined CMCC in October 2017. He holds a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures and a specialization in LSP (languages for special purposes). He has carried out his post-degree research activity focusing on CSI (culture-specific items) translation.
He has been working as a professional translator for more than ten years now, providing language advice for the drafting, translation and editing of research papers, project deliverables, technical and scientific reports. He holds a technical and managerial position to support the activities of the ASC Division, including project management tasks within the scope of national and international projects.

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Laura Conte

Laura Conte

Laura Conte is a Post-Doc researcher at the Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) Division of CMCC. She graduated in “Biological Sciences” in 2003 and received a Ph.D. in “Biology and Biotechnologies” in 2007. During her research activity, she has developed a well-documented experience in the field of biochemistry, molecular biology and bioinformatics; over the last years, her work has been focusing on data management in the context of climate change. She currently works as Division Manager at the ASC Division and she is involved in the scientific and administrative management of several national and international projects.[/ultimate_modal]

Giovanni Coppini

Giovanni Coppini

Giovanni Coppini holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of Bologna. Since 2003 he’s been working as Technologist at INGV in the operational oceanography division, where he was responsible for environmental applications such as oil spill forecasting and environmental indicators.
He has been representing INGV and then CMCC in the European Topic Centre – Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ETC-ICM) project of the European Environment Agency and in MyOcean as responsible for the liaisons with Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Ocean Service (MyOcean) and the development of climate and environmental indicators. He has being representing INGV in the collaboration agreement among INGV and Italian Coast Guard.
He has been managing director in MFSTEP EU project and has contributed to the management of several international Projects.
He is the Emergency Response Office (ERO) Manager in the Mediterranean  Oceanography Network for GOOS (MONGOOS) and Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC) collaboration Agreement.
Since 2004 he was collaborating in the management of the Italian National Group of Operational Oceanography (8 Institutes). Since 2012 he is co-chair of MONGOOS.[/ultimate_modal]

Giorgia Verri

Giorgia Verri

Giorgia Verri holds a M.Sc. Degree in Physics at the University of Salento, obtained in 2009. She holds a II level Master in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies, obtained in 2011 at La Sapienza University.
In 2016 she got a Ph.D. in Environmental Science focused on Predictability studies for Regions of freshwater influence.
As previous working experiences, she developed an integrated modeling system for wind energy forecasting at Enel Engineering and Innovation Division and she contributed to the development of an Operational System for wind energy and solar energy prediction at GSE SpA.
Since 2012 she has been employed at CMCC, where in the framework of TESSA (Development of Technology for the “Situational Sea Awareness”) and IONIO (IONian Integrated marine Observatory) projects, she worked on the implementation and development of a regional ocean model for the Adriatic and Ionian Sea based on NEMO code.
She spent 6 months as visitor at National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder Colorado.
The current research activity is focused on (a) regional ocean modeling, (b) integrated modeling approach for representing the local water cycle of catchments including atmosphere, hydrology and ocean (c) estuarine dynamics.[/ultimate_modal]

Rita Lecci

Rita lecci

Rita is a Junior Scientist at Ocean Predictions and Applications (OPA) division of CMCC Foundation.
She is the responsible of operational group working in the field of operational oceanography in the framework of several international/national projects.
She is the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea MFCs Service Manager and the Local Service Desk Responsible for Mediterranean MFC for Copernicus Marine Service. She is the Project Manager for CMCC of EUCISE2020 and AMAre projects and the Scientific Responsible for CMCC for EMODnet MedSea Checkpoint project.
She is a lecturer in “Applications and Services in Operational Oceanography”  at University of Malta for the Master of Science in Applied Oceanography.
She joined to different oceanographic research cruises in order to collect marine observational data.
She holds a M.Sc. degree in “Marine Environmental Sciences and Oceanography” from Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, and, in 2012, she obtained a Ph.D. degree in “Science and management of climate change” from Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, discussing a thesis on the analysis of the Atlantic Ocean circulation in response to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration.[/ultimate_modal]

Sergio Cretì

Latest publications

• A multi-service data management platform for scientific oceanographic products
• VISIR: technological infrastructure of an operational service for safe and efficient navigation in the Mediterranean Sea
• Regional approach to modeling the transport of floating plastic debris in the Adriatic Sea

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Valentina Bacciu

Valentina Bacciu

Degree in Natural Sciences (2004), and PhD in “Agrometeorology and Ecophysiology of Agricultural and Forestry Systems” (2009) at the University of Sassari.
In 2008, research assistant at the Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula (MT, USA), focusing on statistical and geostatistical analysis within the FUELVAR project.
Since 2010, Co-Division Manager and researcher of IAFENT Division (Impacts of Climate Changes on Agriculture, Forests and Natural Ecosystems) at CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change). From 2010 to 2013, CMCC Project Manager for FP7 FUME Project, also conducting scientific research on the relationship between weather/climate and fire and on fire risk evaluation throughout the identification of major key driver of fire at local and national scale.
Her research activity is focused on the analysis of:
– wildland fire regime and relationships between weather/climate and fire;
– modeling fire emissions;
– evaluate adaptation strategies to climate change in natural environment;
– sampling and mapping fuel characteristics.
She collaborated and collaborates to the scientific and technical management of several International, EC, National and Regional funded projects (e.g. FUME 2010-2013, Proterina-C 2009-2012, PRIN 2012, EXTREME 2012-2015).[/ultimate_modal]

Costantino Sirca

Costantino Sirca

Degree in Agricultural Sciences at University of Sassari, Italy (1994). PhD on Agrometeorology (2001).
He is currently a researcher at the University of Sassari-DipNET and collaborator of CMCC-IAFENT Division since 2009.
The main steps of his career are: 1995-96 fellowship at the National Research Council, Institute of Biometeorology, Italy; 1996-98 contract for research activities, University of Sassari; 2001-2005 and 2008-2010 post doc fellowship, University of Sassari; 2006-2008 fellowship funded by Sardinian regional Government.
He has several years of experience in international and national research project, and actually is scientific responsible of DipNET in the EU FP7 Project FUME – Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the word. His main research field are related to:

• – Agrometeorology and Micrometeorology. Specialised in mass and energy flux monitoring techniques (e.g. Eddy Covariance) and flux data analysis on agricultural and natural ecosystems;

– Ecophysiology. Plant- water relationship, particularly on Mediterranean ecosystems under water stress;

– Wildfire danger and behaviour modeling. Fire danger model development, fuel characterization, fire data analysis, fire-weather relationships;

– Soil respiration and carbon dynamics. Modeling of soil C pools fluxes in agricultural and natural ecosystems

– Climate change impacts. Assessment of CC impacts on vegetation, land use, wildfire regimes, soil, agriculture. Climate and environment manipulation experiments.

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Donatella Spano

Donatella Spano

Donatella Spano is Full Professor and Scientific Coordinator of the PhD program in Agrometeorology and Ecophysiology of Agricultural and Forestry Ecosystems at University of Sassari.
Currently she is also serving as Regional Minister for the Protection of the Environment – Sardinia Regional Government.
She is a Senior Member of the Strategic Council of the Euro Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC). She is a Founding Member and President of the Italian Society for Climate Sciences (SISC).
She graduated in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Sassari, where she also followed a three year Post Doctoral program specializing in Biometeorology.
During the period 2009 – 2014 she has served as Pro-Rector for  Research at  the  University of  Sassari. She has also served as a Member of the Research Commission of the Conference of Italian Universities Rectors (CRUI), and a Member of the Work Group on the Internal Evaluation of Universities.
During the period 2007 – 20014 she has served as Deputy Director of the Impacts on Agriculture, Forest, and Natural Ecosystems (IAFENT) Division at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC).
Prof. Spano is also a member of the Coordination Committee of the PhD School in Global Science and Policy (ChangeS), a consortium of three Italian universities (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, University of Salento and University of Sassari).
She is responsible for the scientific cooperation agreement with University of California-Davis, where she conducts research activities since 1993.
Prof. Spano is Member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), International Society for Biometeorology (ISB), International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), Italian Society for Horticultural Science (SOI), and Italian Society for Agrometeorology (AIAM). She is also an active Member of the ISB Study Group on measuring fluxes of trace gases.
Since 2006 she is coordinating the Agrometeorology and Ecophysiology Laboratory at University of Sassari, leading a scientific team of 25 staff including research scientists, post-docs, and PhD students. She is involved in challenging and cutting-edge biometeorological  research,  particularly  in  the  development  of micrometeorolgical  methodology  for assessing energy and mass exchange between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere (Surface Renewal).
She was a pioneer in the advance of phenolological models contributing in the assessment of chill species requirement and temperature-based model for degree-days calculations.
Prof. Spano is involved in European and international research activities on the assessment of impact of climate change on crop production and climate change manipulation experiment in the Mediterranean environment. Prof. Spano is also leading several research activities on modelling fire behaviour (danger and propagation). She served as expert and consultant to the World Bank, Government of California, European Environment Agency, and Italian Civil Protection. Prof. Spano has chaired over 40 doctoral and master theses.
In 2012 she has been awarded the medal of the University of Sassari for best scientific production. In 2001 she was co-recipient of the “Best Practice Paper” award of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Prof. Spano is actively involved in several EU projects aiming at the assessment of climate change adaptation, identification of sustainable farming strategies, setting up an integrated system for the quantification of net CO2 exchanges and evaluation of mitigation strategies at the urban and territorial levels, as well as the setup of methodologies and support systems for the evaluation of fire risk in extreme meteorological conditions.
Prof. Spano has published in several international and national journals and books. She is Member of the Editorial Board of the Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Journal and Member of the Editorial Board of the Italian Journal of Agrometeorology. She is also a peer reviewer for the Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Journal, International Journal of Biometeorology, Tree Physiology, Journal of Geophysical Research, Acta Horticulturae, Italian Journal of Agronomy.[/ultimate_modal]

Buonocore Mauro

Mauro Buonocore

Mauro Buonocore is head of the Communication and Media Office at CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change. He focuses his activities on the dissemination of the scientific research outcomes, climate change, sustainable development, and the implications of such topics on the media and the public opinion. Mauro runs the CMCC’s press office, the institutional communication, and coordinates the digital magazine Foresight – the CMCC observatory on climate policies and futures. He also edits the CMCC blog on the platform BlogItalia which is published by AGI, contributes to Tuttogreen (La Stampa), and is member of the Scientific Council of the Italian Climate Network.[/ultimate_modal]

Laura Caciagli

Laura Caciagli

Laura Caciagli is a biologist and a science journalist at the CMCC Foundation (CMCC – Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change), in Lecce (Italy).
She writes articles for TEC, the CMCC’s blog about climate change and policy. She manages the facebook, instagram, twitter and LinkedIn pages of the CMCC research project MEDNICE, and she is further involved in the collaboration on the different activities of the CMCC’s Communication Office.
She writes for Italian newspapers, such as Le Scienze (the Italian edition of Scientific American), BIO ECO GEO, an Italian magazine about Ecology and Environment, and Galileo, an online journal about science and technology.
She worked as freelancer at external relations, media and communication unit (Unità Relazioni Esterne, Media e Comunicazione) of CNR of Pisa since the January 2012.
She was mainly involved in the organization of the first edition of the “Internet festival”, and in the different activities of communication of the Press Office of CNR, especially in supporting the design and development of multimedia products and interviews, and in writing articles about ICT and Internet for the CNR’s newsletter, Focus.it. It was even of her concern writing and editing the bimonthly newsletter of SERIT (Security Research in Italy), a joint initiative on Homeland Security of CNR and Finmeccanica.
Laura graduated with honours in Biology (2003) at the University of Pisa; she holds also a PhD in Evolutionistic Biology (2008).
She attended the Master in Science Communication at SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies), Trieste (Italy), in 2009 – 2011, discussing on February 2012 a thesis entitled: “Siamo tutti orsi polari: le nuove narrative della comunicazione ambientale per affrontare le sfide globali”. The thesis focused on climate change communication and its role in the public debate, exploring in particular its crucial role in the relationship between experts, journalists and citizens.
On June 25, 2014, she earned the Master’s degree in European Project Planning at EuropaCube – Innovation Business School in Bologna, Italy (attendance: 28-30 October, 2013).[/ultimate_modal]

Lucia Luperto

Lucia Luperto

Lucia Luperto joined the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) in November 2011, where she currently supports the press office and events organization activities in the communication office.
She graduated in Communications at the University of Bologna (2005) and obtained a Master’s degree in international cooperation at the Roma Tre University (2008); in her previous positions she focused on social communication, advocacy processes and social marketing, working in the non-profit and international cooperation sector.[/ultimate_modal]

Lorenzo Tarricone

Lorenzo Tarricone

Lorenzo works at the Communications Office of CMCC as a graphic designer.[/ultimate_modal]

Anny Kolovou

Anny Kolovou

Holds a diploma in Literature, MSc in Marketing and Communication and she works in the Department of Financial Management, akolovou@apdhp-dm.gov.gr[/ultimate_modal]

Evaggelia Vassila

Evaggelia Vassila

Holds a diploma in Agriculture, Msc in Chemical & Food Technology and she works in the Department of Agricultural Holdings and Fisheries in DRAE, evasila@apdhp-dm.gov.gr[/ultimate_modal]