My academic and work experience has been entirely focused on the modelling of impacts triggered by natural hazards and, consequently, understanding the relationships between climate change and the frequency of extreme events.
Starting from floods phenomena, my work extended to a wider range of natural hazards.
My primary objective has been to develop a spatial-explicit framework for risk assessment which could be flexibly deployed for a variety of case studies involving different hazard types and exposure categories.
This led to the development of the CCDR tools, aimed at supporting the World Bank in operational risk screening across developing countries.
My bachelor degree is Environmental Sciences, a multi-disciplinary three-years degree held at Ca'Foscari University of Venice.
After that, I got a joint-degree master (110/110) in Sustainable Development with a six month period spent at the Department of Geography of Universiteit Utrecht.
My master thesis Looking forward from the past is related to flood damage modelling in reference to an historical flood event, and it was developed during an internship at research center Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, where I started my experience as junior researcher on EU FP7 projects related to water security.
From 2015 to 2018 I carried out my PhD in Science and management of Climate Change at the Ca' Foscari University defending a thesis titled Integrated framework for flood risk assessment in Italy. The thesis consists of four papers published on peer-reviewed online journals.
I spent two semester abroad as visiting student:
Since 2018 I collaborate with the World Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR labs). I am involved in the management and development of the global hazard monitoring tool ThinkHazard! and in the collection and review of risk datasets covering different natural hazards such as floods, landslides, cyclones, earthquakes and tsunamis.
From 2012 to 2020 I have been part of the Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategy group lead by Dr. Jaroslav Mysiak at CMCC@Ca' Foscari, Venice. Since then, I contributed to a number of projects:
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