Marianna Benassi is a Junior Research Associate at Climate Variability and Prediction (CLIVAP) Division.
In 2017 she obtained her PhD with honours at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in the programme of “Science and Management of Climate Change” under the supervision of Prof Antonio Navarra, with a research project on “Defining the Time and Spatial Scale of Climate Response to CO2 changes”. In 2009 she graduated magna cum laude in Physics at Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, where in 2012 she earned a two-year Master Degree in Physics, with a specialization in Solid Earth Physics. Her final dissertation has been awarded with maximum grade and earned a magna cum laude.
Her activity is mainly devoted to the development and the maintenance of CMCC Seasonal Forecast System. Her research interests include the investigation of the sources of predictability at the seasonal-to-interannual time scale, with a special focus on the Euro-Mediterranean domain.