She holds a master’s degree in Geological Sciences from the “Sapienza” University of Rome, a PhD in Forest Ecology at University of Tuscia in Viterbo (IT) and a Post-University Master on “General and Applied Geophysics” at INGV/University of Pisa.
Since more than 10 years, she is involved in CMCC scientific and project management activities and, as researcher of the Division on Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services (IAFES), she is expert on GIS-based water cycle and land use change evaluations under climate change and variability, including indicators of slow-onset extreme episodes like hydrological droughts and various attributes of low inflow periods. Through these tools, she deals with the quantification of feedbacks between climate and terrestrial ecosystem components due to water, soil and plants interactions, with focus on impacts on water resources. She has also extensive expertise on GIS-based algorithms and tools related to terrain analysis procedures, essential for a robust hydrological modeling.
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
- Climate Change and Geographic Ranges: The Implications for Russian Forests
- Evaluation of Freshwater Flow From Rivers to the Sea in CMIP5 Simulations: Insights From the Congo River Basin
- Modelling climate change impacts on nutrients and primary production in coastal waters
- ASPHAA: A GIS‐Based Algorithm to Calculate Cell Area on a Latitude‐Longitude (Geographic) Regular Grid
- Variability and quasi-decadal changes in the methane budget over the period 2000–2012
- Impacts of past and future land changes on landslides in southern Italy
- A risk assessment framework for irrigated agriculture under climate change
- Likelihood of changes in forest species suitability, distribution, and diversity under future climate: The case of Southern Europe
- Human food vs. animal feed debate. A thorough analysis of environmental footprints
- The nexus between forest fragmentation in Africa and Ebola virus disease outbreaks