Elena Xoplaki is Senior Scientist at the CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, and Principal Investigator of the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant EUROpest (Grant No. 101166700). She is a leading expert on Mediterranean climate change, with research spanning weather and climate extremes (heatwaves, floods, droughts, compound and concurrent events), paleoclimatology, climate reconstructions and model intercomparisons, and the role of atmospheric circulation in shaping European and Mediterranean climate. She serves as Vice-Chair of the ITU/UNEP/UNFCCC/UPU/WMO Global Initiative on Resilience to Natural Hazards through AI Solutions and has coordinated or contributed to numerous European, Swiss, German, and US-funded research projects.

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