Maria Katherina Dal Barco was born on August 19, 1992, in Verona, Italy in a multi-cultural family. She is a PhD candidate in “Science and Management of Climate Change” at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her PhD project is meant to develop Machine Learning methods for multi-risk assessment in coastal areas, with the main focus on the coastal area of the Veneto region, in the frame of the Interreg Italy-Croatia AdriaClim project. She graduated in  “Environmental Science – Global Environmental Change” at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her MSc thesis focused on the development and implementation of a Bayesian Network approach for multi-scenario analysis supporting coastal erosion risk management in the Apulian shoreline carried out within the Interreg Greece-Italy TRITON project.
During her Master’s Degree Programme Maria Katherina holded a training internship at the Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC – RAAS Division), where she gained expertise in climate change and coastal erosion risk assessment and management within DG CLIMA and Interreg Greece-Italy TRITON projects. Since March 2020 she has been part of RAAS (Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategies) Division at CMCC. Her research interests refer to climate change vulnerability and multi-risk assessment in coastal areas.