1.INTRODUCTION
Elen LEMAITRE -CURRI
Director, Plan Bleu (2017-2020), France
Deputy Director, CIHEAM-IAMM, France (since 2020)
Elen Lemaître-Curri is an agricultural and environmental economist, specialised in public policies. After graduating from the Ecole nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts, she joined the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on land tenure policies in Africa, and the FAO Investment Center-World Bank cooperation program to design, support and evaluate projects in about 20 countries around the World. She was then successively deputy head of office for Environmental Economics and Financial Instruments, and head of office for Global Public Goods in the French General Commissariat for sustainable development, designing, assessing and negotiating economic instruments for climate change, biodiversity, ocean and forest policies. She joined Plan Bleu, as a director, in 2017. Since September 2020, she is deputy director of CIHEAM-IAMM, an international organisation focusing on sustainable agriculture, rural development and food security cooperation, research and education in Mediterranean countries.
Director, Plan Bleu (2017-2020), France
Deputy Director, CIHEAM-IAMM, France (since 2020)
Elen Lemaître-Curri is an agricultural and environmental economist, specialised in public policies. After graduating from the Ecole nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts, she joined the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on land tenure policies in Africa, and the FAO Investment Center-World Bank cooperation program to design, support and evaluate projects in about 20 countries around the World. She was then successively deputy head of office for Environmental Economics and Financial Instruments, and head of office for Global Public Goods in the French General Commissariat for sustainable development, designing, assessing and negotiating economic instruments for climate change, biodiversity, ocean and forest policies. She joined Plan Bleu, as a director, in 2017. Since September 2020, she is deputy director of CIHEAM-IAMM, an international organisation focusing on sustainable agriculture, rural development and food security cooperation, research and education in Mediterranean countries.
Piero LIONELLO
Full professor of Oceanography and Atmospheric Science, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.
He is a climatologist with a focus on the climate of the Mediterranean Region, its past and future evolution, impacts of climate change and extreme events. He is the chairman of the MedCLIVAR (Mediterranean CLImate VARiability) network, and has been member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ECMWF (European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecast) and chairman of the International Scientific Steering Committee of the HyMeX project (Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean eXperiment). He has edited three books on the Climate of the Mediterranean Region, several special issues of international scientific journals, and organized many conferences and meetings on related topics. http://www.dsm.unile.it/~plionello/index.htm
Full professor of Oceanography and Atmospheric Science, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.
He is a climatologist with a focus on the climate of the Mediterranean Region, its past and future evolution, impacts of climate change and extreme events. He is the chairman of the MedCLIVAR (Mediterranean CLImate VARiability) network, and has been member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ECMWF (European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecast) and chairman of the International Scientific Steering Committee of the HyMeX project (Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean eXperiment). He has edited three books on the Climate of the Mediterranean Region, several special issues of international scientific journals, and organized many conferences and meetings on related topics. http://www.dsm.unile.it/~plionello/index.htm
Katarzyna MARINI
Science officer, MedECC.
Dr Katarzyna Marini is involved in the MedECC since its creation in 2015. Previously she was a scientific manager of the Laboratory of Excellence OT-Med in France, which is a regional network on laboratories focused on climate change and natural hazards. She has a PhD and research experience (13 peer-reviewed articles) in the field of marine biology.
Science officer, MedECC.
Dr Katarzyna Marini is involved in the MedECC since its creation in 2015. Previously she was a scientific manager of the Laboratory of Excellence OT-Med in France, which is a regional network on laboratories focused on climate change and natural hazards. She has a PhD and research experience (13 peer-reviewed articles) in the field of marine biology.
Cyril MOULIN
Researcher, CEA, France
Cyril Moulin has a PhD in Oceanography and Meteorology from Sorbonne University (Paris, France) and he is researcher at CEA since 1998. He used satellites to study atmospheric aerosols and marine phytoplankton. He has been director of the Laboratory of Climate and Environment Sciences (LSCE) and is now deputy director of the National Institute for Earth Sciences and Astronomy (INSU) at CNRS and coordinator of the MISTRALS research program on the impacts of global change in the Mediterranean.
Researcher, CEA, France
Cyril Moulin has a PhD in Oceanography and Meteorology from Sorbonne University (Paris, France) and he is researcher at CEA since 1998. He used satellites to study atmospheric aerosols and marine phytoplankton. He has been director of the Laboratory of Climate and Environment Sciences (LSCE) and is now deputy director of the National Institute for Earth Sciences and Astronomy (INSU) at CNRS and coordinator of the MISTRALS research program on the impacts of global change in the Mediterranean.
2.DRIVERS
Giovanni ARGENTI
Associate Professor within Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence, Italy.
His main research activities concern pastures management and characterization, relationships between pastoral and woody resources, establishment and management of turfgrass, cover crops in vineyards and revegetation of disturbed areas, habitat improvements for faunistic purposes. https://www.dagri.unifi.it
Associate Professor within Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence, Italy.
His main research activities concern pastures management and characterization, relationships between pastoral and woody resources, establishment and management of turfgrass, cover crops in vineyards and revegetation of disturbed areas, habitat improvements for faunistic purposes. https://www.dagri.unifi.it
Marie-Anne AUGER-ROZENBERG
Senior scientist, INRAE (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment), France.
Dr Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg has many years of experience in forest entomology, pest characterization, and phylogenetics, specialized in insect molecular ecology. Her research focuses mainly on molecular systematic, phylogeny and phylogeography of invasive insects and she was involved in different national and EU projects. She is also the head of the Research Unit of Forest Zoology (INRAE URZF) since 2018. https://www.inrae.fr/en/about-us
Senior scientist, INRAE (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment), France.
Dr Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg has many years of experience in forest entomology, pest characterization, and phylogenetics, specialized in insect molecular ecology. Her research focuses mainly on molecular systematic, phylogeny and phylogeography of invasive insects and she was involved in different national and EU projects. She is also the head of the Research Unit of Forest Zoology (INRAE URZF) since 2018. https://www.inrae.fr/en/about-us
Ernesto AZZURRO
Senior Researcher at the IRBIM-CNR, Ancona, Italy
Reference scientist of IRBIM for the strategic area ‘Global Changes’
Chair of the CIESM Committee C6 Coastal Systems and Marine Policy
His Current areas of research are invasion biology and ecology of fishes, and biodiversity changes in coastal marine environments and participatory action research. His scientific production presents an interdisciplinary spectrum of studies spanning from theoretical to applied aspects of marine bio-invasions and climate change impacts in the Mediterranean area. The IRBIM-CNR institute: https://www.cnr.it/en/institute/122 Active EU projects: https://mpa-engage.interreg-med.eu
Senior Researcher at the IRBIM-CNR, Ancona, Italy
Reference scientist of IRBIM for the strategic area ‘Global Changes’
Chair of the CIESM Committee C6 Coastal Systems and Marine Policy
His Current areas of research are invasion biology and ecology of fishes, and biodiversity changes in coastal marine environments and participatory action research. His scientific production presents an interdisciplinary spectrum of studies spanning from theoretical to applied aspects of marine bio-invasions and climate change impacts in the Mediterranean area. The IRBIM-CNR institute: https://www.cnr.it/en/institute/122 Active EU projects: https://mpa-engage.interreg-med.eu
Corina BASNOU
Sophie BASTIN
Sophie Bastin is a scientist working in France at IPSL/LATMOS (http://www.latmos.ipsl.fr), with research experience in mesoscale and regional atmospheric dynamics, boundary-layer and cloud processes, land surface/atmosphere interactions and climate variability at regional scale. She is involved in both modelling (CORDEX, Convection-permitting modelling for climate research) and observations communities (CALIPSO/CLOUDSAT/Earthcare; ACTRIS; GNSS4SWEC, SIRTA). She participated in several international projects (AMMA, Hymex, EUCP among others) and produced and analysed WRF and multi-model regional climate simulations over Africa and Europe. Her expertise in high-resolution modeling (convective-permitting) and remote sensing observations of clouds is particularly relevant to better understand the role of mesoscale processes over complex terrain in mediterranean climate variability. IPSL official page
Sophie Bastin is a scientist working in France at IPSL/LATMOS (http://www.latmos.ipsl.fr), with research experience in mesoscale and regional atmospheric dynamics, boundary-layer and cloud processes, land surface/atmosphere interactions and climate variability at regional scale. She is involved in both modelling (CORDEX, Convection-permitting modelling for climate research) and observations communities (CALIPSO/CLOUDSAT/Earthcare; ACTRIS; GNSS4SWEC, SIRTA). She participated in several international projects (AMMA, Hymex, EUCP among others) and produced and analysed WRF and multi-model regional climate simulations over Africa and Europe. Her expertise in high-resolution modeling (convective-permitting) and remote sensing observations of clouds is particularly relevant to better understand the role of mesoscale processes over complex terrain in mediterranean climate variability. IPSL official page
Mustapha BEJAOUI
Assistant-Professor in Ecology and Animal Biology, University of Carthage, Sciences Faculty of Bizerte, Tunisia.
He is doing research in Entomofauna Biodiversity, Animal Ecology and Ecotoxicology. He is a founding member of the Tunisian – French International Joint Laboratory (LMI COSYS-MED: Contaminants and Ecosystems of South Mediterranean Sea). His research program investigates topics at biodiversity (entomofauna and other) and the impacts of contaminants on environment and biota. Scholar Google Profile researchgate Profile
Assistant-Professor in Ecology and Animal Biology, University of Carthage, Sciences Faculty of Bizerte, Tunisia.
He is doing research in Entomofauna Biodiversity, Animal Ecology and Ecotoxicology. He is a founding member of the Tunisian – French International Joint Laboratory (LMI COSYS-MED: Contaminants and Ecosystems of South Mediterranean Sea). His research program investigates topics at biodiversity (entomofauna and other) and the impacts of contaminants on environment and biota. Scholar Google Profile researchgate Profile
Lorenzo BRILLI
Dr. Lorenzo Brilli, Ph.D. in agrometeorology and ecophysiology of agricultural and forestry systems, is a research scientist at National Research Council of Italy – Institute of BioEconomy. Scientific expertise concerns surface exchange measurement between biosphere and atmosphere, climate change impacts on agriculture and forestry systems, biogeochemical and remote sensing modeling. He is involved in several national and international (SMARTSOIL, MACSUR, AgMiP, LIFEA2C, PASTORALP) projects.
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Martina CARRETE
Emma CEBRIAN
Dr. Emma Cebrian is a marine biologist (Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CSIC), Catalonia, Spain). Her research seeks to apply marine community ecology to the conservation and restoration of Mediterranean marine ecosystems. Examples include incorporating an understanding of biodiversity patterns, species interactions, habitat-species linkages and quantifying the cumulative impacts of multiple stressors on marine ecosystems. Her research interests are Marine Biology, Biodiversity, Global Change, Invasive species, Conservation Biology, Benthic marine communities
Instagram: @marineforests; Twitter: @marineforests
Hanene CHAABANE
Hanène Chaabane s a permanent member of the Pest Control and Integrated Protection in Agriculture (BPIA) laboratory and of the LMI Naila. She is responsible for pesticide data at the OMERE observatory in Kamech with Olivier Grünberger. Hanene Chaabane holds a diploma in Agronomy, specialty Plant protection from National Institute of Agronomy, then a DEA diploma (Master Degree) in Agronomic Sciences from ENSAIA – INPL Nancy France. Since her thesis, defended in December 2005, her main research focus has been on pesticides in relation to phytosanitary practices and their effects on the water and soil environment. She has been associate professor in Pesticide Sciences and Internship Director since May 2018.
Hanène Chaabane s a permanent member of the Pest Control and Integrated Protection in Agriculture (BPIA) laboratory and of the LMI Naila. She is responsible for pesticide data at the OMERE observatory in Kamech with Olivier Grünberger. Hanene Chaabane holds a diploma in Agronomy, specialty Plant protection from National Institute of Agronomy, then a DEA diploma (Master Degree) in Agronomic Sciences from ENSAIA – INPL Nancy France. Since her thesis, defended in December 2005, her main research focus has been on pesticides in relation to phytosanitary practices and their effects on the water and soil environment. She has been associate professor in Pesticide Sciences and Internship Director since May 2018.
Silvia COELHO
Sílvia Coelho is a PhD Student at the Department of Environment and Planning and at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her main activities include the study of atmospheric processes and phenomena, such as climate change, air pollution, and their influence on human health, through the application of meteorological and air quality modelling tools at regional and urban scales. www.cesam.ua.pt/silviacoelho; https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/B91C-66ED-25BF
Sílvia Coelho is a PhD Student at the Department of Environment and Planning and at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her main activities include the study of atmospheric processes and phenomena, such as climate change, air pollution, and their influence on human health, through the application of meteorological and air quality modelling tools at regional and urban scales. www.cesam.ua.pt/silviacoelho; https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/B91C-66ED-25BF
Renato COLUCCI
MaSc in Geology with a PhD in Environmental Science and glaciology. Permanent staff from 2001 at the Marine Science Institute (climate and paleoclimate research group) of the italian National Research Council (CNR), since November 2020 he is a scientist at the italian Institute of Polar Sciences, CNR. He is also Adjunct Professor in glaciology at the University of Trieste (Italy). The main part of his research activity is devoted to the study of mountain and polar glacial and periglacial environments and their interactions with climate.
https://www.isp.cnr.it/index.php/en/about-us/staff/item/402-colucci-renato-r
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Sofia DARMARAKI
Postdoctoral research fellow, Dalhousie University, Canada.
Her research is focused on (past and future) climate and ocean extreme events in regional/large scale. Currently, she is investigating the underlying mechanisms of global marine heatwaves. During her PhD she worked on the detection, characterization and uncertainties of 21st century marine heatwaves in the Mediterranean Sea, using an ensemble of Regional Climate System Models. Her background is in physical oceanography but she is also interested in the impacts of extreme events on fisheries and (marine) ecosystems and on possible solutions for their mitigation. Twitter / Linkedin
Postdoctoral research fellow, Dalhousie University, Canada.
Her research is focused on (past and future) climate and ocean extreme events in regional/large scale. Currently, she is investigating the underlying mechanisms of global marine heatwaves. During her PhD she worked on the detection, characterization and uncertainties of 21st century marine heatwaves in the Mediterranean Sea, using an ensemble of Regional Climate System Models. Her background is in physical oceanography but she is also interested in the impacts of extreme events on fisheries and (marine) ecosystems and on possible solutions for their mitigation. Twitter / Linkedin
Camilla Dibari
Department of Agriculture, food, environment and forestry, University of Florence, Italy
Her main field of expertise is precision agriculture, impacts of climate change on agro-ecosystems, adaptation and mitigation strategies, monitoring of pastoral resources. She has published more than 40 papers on scientific journals with IF, ISI Scopus, WOS (Scopus-H index: 9, Google Scholar H-Index: 12), and actively cooperated (as scientific responsible and/or project manager) to more than 30 international, national and regional funded research projects
Department of Agriculture, food, environment and forestry, University of Florence, Italy
Her main field of expertise is precision agriculture, impacts of climate change on agro-ecosystems, adaptation and mitigation strategies, monitoring of pastoral resources. She has published more than 40 papers on scientific journals with IF, ISI Scopus, WOS (Scopus-H index: 9, Google Scholar H-Index: 12), and actively cooperated (as scientific responsible and/or project manager) to more than 30 international, national and regional funded research projects
Donna DIMARCHOPOULOU
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Rhode Island, USA
Donna Dimarchopoulou holds a BS (Biology), MS (Hydrobiology-Aquaculture), and PhD degree (Fisheries Biology and Management), all from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Currently, she works as a . She is interested in the effects of fishing and environmental changes on marine ecosystems, focusing on marine fisheries, ecosystem modeling, stock assessments, marine protected areas, and the benefits of fishing restrictions on marine populations. Google Scholar Profile http://ahumphrieslab.com/dd-page
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Rhode Island, USA
Donna Dimarchopoulou holds a BS (Biology), MS (Hydrobiology-Aquaculture), and PhD degree (Fisheries Biology and Management), all from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Currently, she works as a . She is interested in the effects of fishing and environmental changes on marine ecosystems, focusing on marine fisheries, ecosystem modeling, stock assessments, marine protected areas, and the benefits of fishing restrictions on marine populations. Google Scholar Profile http://ahumphrieslab.com/dd-page
Jean-Claude DUTAY
Laboratoire Des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE, France)
Specialist in geochemical tracers modelling, in the global ocean and the Mediterranean Sea; has participated to past, modern and future climate modelling studies in the Mediterranean Sea. He is the Coordinator of the “pollution and Contaminants” action of the MISTRALS program.
Laboratoire Des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE, France)
Specialist in geochemical tracers modelling, in the global ocean and the Mediterranean Sea; has participated to past, modern and future climate modelling studies in the Mediterranean Sea. He is the Coordinator of the “pollution and Contaminants” action of the MISTRALS program.
Monia EL BOUR
Senior Researcher and Professor of Marine Microbiology and Blue Biotechnology, (INSTM – LR16INSTM05, Tunisia)
She is currently Chairwoman of Marine Microbiology and Biotechnology Committee C4 CIESM (www.ciesm.org) and the Coordinator of more than 40 projects on health bio-monitoring bioprocessing and aquatic biotechnology since 1995. She is author of more than 200 international or indexed publications.
Senior Researcher and Professor of Marine Microbiology and Blue Biotechnology, (INSTM – LR16INSTM05, Tunisia)
She is currently Chairwoman of Marine Microbiology and Biotechnology Committee C4 CIESM (www.ciesm.org) and the Coordinator of more than 40 projects on health bio-monitoring bioprocessing and aquatic biotechnology since 1995. She is author of more than 200 international or indexed publications.
Antonietta ELIA
Senior Associate Fellow in Law, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Dr. Antonietta Elia is specialized in International Law, Comparative Constitutional Law and EU Law, her academic and professional interests include the relationships between human rights and environment.a former Candidate to the Italian Seat of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (2019); Senior Associate Fellow in Law, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain, 2014-); Visiting Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Interamerican Academy of Human Rights, Saltillo (Mexico, 2020-); External Associate Legal Expert European Asylum Support Office (EASO, 2020-); Council of Europe Selected Legal Expert for European Human Rights Standards Implementation Projects in Armenia, Turkey, and Moldova (2018-); UNAIDS Expert Practitioner on Human Rights and HIV (2018-); Visiting Professor of International Law and Human Rights, China Youth of Political Studies, Beijing (China, 2016-2017).
Senior Associate Fellow in Law, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Dr. Antonietta Elia is specialized in International Law, Comparative Constitutional Law and EU Law, her academic and professional interests include the relationships between human rights and environment.a former Candidate to the Italian Seat of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (2019); Senior Associate Fellow in Law, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain, 2014-); Visiting Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Interamerican Academy of Human Rights, Saltillo (Mexico, 2020-); External Associate Legal Expert European Asylum Support Office (EASO, 2020-); Council of Europe Selected Legal Expert for European Human Rights Standards Implementation Projects in Armenia, Turkey, and Moldova (2018-); UNAIDS Expert Practitioner on Human Rights and HIV (2018-); Visiting Professor of International Law and Human Rights, China Youth of Political Studies, Beijing (China, 2016-2017).
Elena GEORGOPOULOU
Researcher, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
Elena holds is a chemical engineer with a PhD in Energy Planning and Renewables. Her main fields of expertise are focused on climate change impact assessment, adaptation, and mitigation, energy planning, air pollution, cost-benefit analyses of environmental measures, decision-aid. She was an IPCC Focal Point for Greece from 2010 to 2018, and a Lead Author in the IPCC AR5 and AR6. She is the project leader in many national and European research projects on climate change and clean energy. www.noa.gr http://www.meteo.noa.gr/cv/Georgopoulou_cv_en.pdf
Researcher, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
Elena holds is a chemical engineer with a PhD in Energy Planning and Renewables. Her main fields of expertise are focused on climate change impact assessment, adaptation, and mitigation, energy planning, air pollution, cost-benefit analyses of environmental measures, decision-aid. She was an IPCC Focal Point for Greece from 2010 to 2018, and a Lead Author in the IPCC AR5 and AR6. She is the project leader in many national and European research projects on climate change and clean energy. www.noa.gr http://www.meteo.noa.gr/cv/Georgopoulou_cv_en.pdf
Sylvaine GIAKOUMI
Senior Researcher, Zoological Station Anton Dohrn, Italy
Her research focuses on 1) understanding the processes that shape marine communities exploring species interactions and the impacts of human uses on marine ecosystems; and 2) developing marine conservation planning approaches and the spatial prioritization of conservation actions in the marine environment and across realms. She is an honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia.
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Senior Researcher, Zoological Station Anton Dohrn, Italy
Her research focuses on 1) understanding the processes that shape marine communities exploring species interactions and the impacts of human uses on marine ecosystems; and 2) developing marine conservation planning approaches and the spatial prioritization of conservation actions in the marine environment and across realms. She is an honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia.
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Juan Jesús GONZÁLEZ ALEMÁN
Postdoctoral researcher, Complutense Universiy of Madrid, Spain.
He finished his PhD thesis in 2018 on the analysis of cyclones with tropical characteristics both in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea and their relationship with Anthropogenic Climate Change. He is now researching on medicanes, renewable energy and on the role of extratropical cyclones on the surface’s response of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings.
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Postdoctoral researcher, Complutense Universiy of Madrid, Spain.
He finished his PhD thesis in 2018 on the analysis of cyclones with tropical characteristics both in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea and their relationship with Anthropogenic Climate Change. He is now researching on medicanes, renewable energy and on the role of extratropical cyclones on the surface’s response of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings.
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Pablo GONZALEZ-MORENO
Madeleine GOUTX
CNRS Research Director Emeritus, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO), Marseille, France
Her skills are in the domain of marine chemistry, biogeochemistry of carbon cycle and anthropogenic impact. She led the environmental chemistry team of M.I.O (Aix-Marseille University) (2011-2017) and participated in the coordination of several projects in the Mediterranean (FP4-CANIGO, FP6-SESAME, ANR-IBISCUS, FP7-NEXOS). Part of her recent activity has focused on the identification of sources of hydrocarbons in the marine environment and their detection by analysis of their fluorescence properties, using underwater gliders equipped with optical sensors (MIO official page).
CNRS Research Director Emeritus, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO), Marseille, France
Her skills are in the domain of marine chemistry, biogeochemistry of carbon cycle and anthropogenic impact. She led the environmental chemistry team of M.I.O (Aix-Marseille University) (2011-2017) and participated in the coordination of several projects in the Mediterranean (FP4-CANIGO, FP6-SESAME, ANR-IBISCUS, FP7-NEXOS). Part of her recent activity has focused on the identification of sources of hydrocarbons in the marine environment and their detection by analysis of their fluorescence properties, using underwater gliders equipped with optical sensors (MIO official page).
Olivier GRUNBERGER
Olivier Grünberger has been working for ORSTOM/IRD since 30 years. He is a hydro-geochemist specialized in water and soils solutes dynamics and agricultural pollutants contamination processes. He has worked in Mexico and Thailand on saline soils and he is presently posted in Tunisia where he focuses on pesticide contamination processes in rainfed and irrigated fields and co-manages OMERE’s site observatory in Cap Bon peninsula. https://www.umr-lisah.fr/?q=fr/content/o-grunberger https://www.obs-omere.org/fr/sites/kamech
Olivier Grünberger has been working for ORSTOM/IRD since 30 years. He is a hydro-geochemist specialized in water and soils solutes dynamics and agricultural pollutants contamination processes. He has worked in Mexico and Thailand on saline soils and he is presently posted in Tunisia where he focuses on pesticide contamination processes in rainfed and irrigated fields and co-manages OMERE’s site observatory in Cap Bon peninsula. https://www.umr-lisah.fr/?q=fr/content/o-grunberger https://www.obs-omere.org/fr/sites/kamech
Ivan GUTTLER
Dr. sc. Ivan Güttler from the Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service in Zagreb, Croatia. His main areas of expertise are regional climate modelling and atmospheric boundary layer studies. For the last 11 years, he has been contributing to several national and EU projects on climate change and climate change adaptation activities. http://meteo.hr/
Dr. sc. Ivan Güttler from the Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service in Zagreb, Croatia. His main areas of expertise are regional climate modelling and atmospheric boundary layer studies. For the last 11 years, he has been contributing to several national and EU projects on climate change and climate change adaptation activities. http://meteo.hr/
Nathalie HILMI
Dr Nathalie Hilmi is an expert in Macroeconomics and International Finance. In 2010, she joined the Centre Scientifique de Monaco as head of the section « environmental economics » and collaborated with IAEA’s Environment Laboratories to initiate correlation studies between environmental sciences and economics to better evaluate the socioeconomic extent of impacts and costs of action versus inaction with regard to carbon emissions. She works on Sustainable development in a multidisciplinary spirit. She is lead author for IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) and next IPCC main report AR6 WGII. https://www.centrescientifique.mc/fr/equipe/biologie-marine-fr/economie-environnementale
Gabriel JORDA
Senior research scientist, Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Mallorca (COB-IEO). His main line of research is the study of marine climate variability with special focus on the Mediterranean and on the interactions with biological processes. His research is mainly based on numerical modelling and on the analysis of climatic databases. In that framework he has developed several observation based products for climate studies on hydrography, sea level and waves. He has worked on ~40 international and national projects and is co-author of more than 70 papers in peer reviewed journals. At present he is member of the steering committe of MedCORDEX and CLIVAR-Spain. http://www.ba.ieo.es/es/personal/12-contacts/116-biel-jorda-sanchez http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2782-8727
Senior research scientist, Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Mallorca (COB-IEO). His main line of research is the study of marine climate variability with special focus on the Mediterranean and on the interactions with biological processes. His research is mainly based on numerical modelling and on the analysis of climatic databases. In that framework he has developed several observation based products for climate studies on hydrography, sea level and waves. He has worked on ~40 international and national projects and is co-author of more than 70 papers in peer reviewed journals. At present he is member of the steering committe of MedCORDEX and CLIVAR-Spain. http://www.ba.ieo.es/es/personal/12-contacts/116-biel-jorda-sanchez http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2782-8727
Stelios KATSANEVAKIS
Professor of marine ecology, Department of Marine Sciences, University of the Aegean, Greece.
The focus of his research is on Marine Conservation, Biological Invasions, and Ecological Monitoring. He has published >275 scientific publications, of which 158 in international scientific journals. He previously worked in the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. https://www.mar.aegean.gr/index.php?userid=Katsanevakis&pg=4.1&lang=en http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=PWAQG60AAAAJ
Professor of marine ecology, Department of Marine Sciences, University of the Aegean, Greece.
The focus of his research is on Marine Conservation, Biological Invasions, and Ecological Monitoring. He has published >275 scientific publications, of which 158 in international scientific journals. He previously worked in the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. https://www.mar.aegean.gr/index.php?userid=Katsanevakis&pg=4.1&lang=en http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=PWAQG60AAAAJ
Mehdi LAHLOU
Manfred A. LANGE
Manfred A. Lange, former Director of the Arctic Center in Rovaniemi, Finland (1992-1995) and Professor of Geophysics at the University of Münster in Germany (1995-2007), was the founding Director of the Energy, Environment and Water Research Center at the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus (www.cyi.ac.cy; 2007-2015). Currently, he is the Director of the Future Earth MENA Regional Center and serves on the Steering Committee of MedECC. His research includes the assessment of climate change impacts with a focus on water- and energy security, renewable energy sources and energy- and water use efficiency in the built environment.
Luisa LEOLINI
Dr. Luisa Leolini is working with a post-doc fellowship at the University of Florence (Italy). Her researches are focused on crop modelling, precision agriculture and climate change. During her PhD, she worked on the implementation of a model library for estimating grapevine growth, development and production in different environments and she is currently involved in projects, which combine grapevine and olive tree modelling with precision agriculture for spatial agro-ecosystem analysis.
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Myriam LOPES
Myriam Lopes is Associate Professor at Department of Environment and Planning and Vice-coordinator of Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Portugal. She holds a PhD in Environmental Applied Sciences (2005) and an MSc in Air Pollution (1997). She is a well-established researcher and lecturer in environmental sciences and engineering with focus on air quality management, climate change mitigation and adaptation and urban metabolism. www.cesam.ua.pt/myriamlopes
Annarita MARIOTTI
Ana Isabel MIRANDA
Ana Isabel Miranda is full professor at the Department of Environment and Planning at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She is a member of the Associated Laboratory CESAM (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies) and coordinates the Thematic Line “Integrated Environmental Systems”. Her working areas include: air quality modelling, urban air quality, health effects of air pollution, climate change, wildland fires and environmental impact assessment. www.cesam.ua.pt/miranda
Ana Isabel Miranda is full professor at the Department of Environment and Planning at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She is a member of the Associated Laboratory CESAM (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies) and coordinates the Thematic Line “Integrated Environmental Systems”. Her working areas include: air quality modelling, urban air quality, health effects of air pollution, climate change, wildland fires and environmental impact assessment. www.cesam.ua.pt/miranda
Meryem MOJTAHID
Meryem Mojtahid is associate professor at University of Angers in France, within the LPG-BIAF (Resent and Fossil Bio-Indicators) CNRS 6112 research unit and the geology department. Her research aims at tracking the natural variability of climate beyond the industrial era using planktonic and benthic micro-organisms (foraminifera) fossilized in marine sediment cores from various oceanic basins (North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Pacific).
Meryem Mojtahid is associate professor at University of Angers in France, within the LPG-BIAF (Resent and Fossil Bio-Indicators) CNRS 6112 research unit and the geology department. Her research aims at tracking the natural variability of climate beyond the industrial era using planktonic and benthic micro-organisms (foraminifera) fossilized in marine sediment cores from various oceanic basins (North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Pacific).
Alexandra MONTEIRO
Alexandra Monteiro is a senior researcher at the Department of Environment and Planning of the University of Aveiro, belonging to the CESAM – Centre for Environment and Marine Studies – associated laboratory, where she is the coordinator of the research group APM (Atmospheric Process and Modelling) composed by more than 20 researchers. She holds a PhD in Environmental Science from the University of Aveiro (2007) and a Master in Atmospheric pollution (2003). ORCID: 0000-0001-8182-3380; www.cesam.ua.pt/alexandramonteiro
Samuel MORIN
Samuel Morin is a research scientist in the field of pure and applied snow science, working since 2009 at the Snow Research Center (Météo-France – CNRS, Grenoble, France) on observations and modelling of the mountain snow cover across weather to climate time scales. He has been a Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC, 2019). http://www.umr-cnrm.fr/spip.php?article250
Samuel Morin is a research scientist in the field of pure and applied snow science, working since 2009 at the Snow Research Center (Météo-France – CNRS, Grenoble, France) on observations and modelling of the mountain snow cover across weather to climate time scales. He has been a Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC, 2019). http://www.umr-cnrm.fr/spip.php?article250
Pierre NABAT
Pierre Nabat is a young researcher, working at Météo-France / CNRM (Toulouse, France). He is specialized in aerosol modelling and the study of aerosol-climate interactions. He is involved in the development of the global and regional climate models of CNRM, and takes part in international initiatives and research projects dealing with aerosols and climate. He is the author or co-author of about 40 peer-reviewed articles, and has received the MedCLIVAR Young Scientist Award in 2018.” http://www.umr-cnrm.fr/spip.php?article889&lang=en
Pierre Nabat is a young researcher, working at Météo-France / CNRM (Toulouse, France). He is specialized in aerosol modelling and the study of aerosol-climate interactions. He is involved in the development of the global and regional climate models of CNRM, and takes part in international initiatives and research projects dealing with aerosols and climate. He is the author or co-author of about 40 peer-reviewed articles, and has received the MedCLIVAR Young Scientist Award in 2018.” http://www.umr-cnrm.fr/spip.php?article889&lang=en
Anika OBERMANN-HELLHUND
Anika Obermann-Hellhund, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany
2018 Dr. rer. nat., Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany
2012 Research Scholar, DRI Reno, Nevada, USA
2011 M. Sc. physics, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany
2008 B. Sc. physics, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany
Fields of expertise: regional climate modeling, mesoscale winds, climate change
https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/61651376/ContentPage_61651376
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anika_Obermann-Hellhund
Anika Obermann-Hellhund, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany
2018 Dr. rer. nat., Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany
2012 Research Scholar, DRI Reno, Nevada, USA
2011 M. Sc. physics, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany
2008 B. Sc. physics, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany
Fields of expertise: regional climate modeling, mesoscale winds, climate change
https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/61651376/ContentPage_61651376
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anika_Obermann-Hellhund
Tuğba OZTURK
Tugba Ozturk, born in Istanbul, Turkey, is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics at IŞIK University where she has been a faculty member since 2015. She completed a PhD in Physics at Boğaziçi University and her undergraduate studies at IŞIK University. Her research fields are regional climate modelling, climate extremes, climate variability and change.
http://www.isikun.edu.tr/en/tugba-ozturk
Androniki PARDALOU
Androniki Pardalou is a Biologist, holding an MSc in Oceanography, currently a PhD student in Fisheries Biology at the Laboratory of Ichthyology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). Her academic interest and working experience focus on MPA management, fisheries and the interactions between the latter and marine megafauna. She is a GIS and stock assessment certified expert. She is a certified Open Water Diver. She has published 6 peer reviewed journal articles and 10 other items.
Laboratory of Ichthyology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Androniki Pardalou, personal webpage
Androniki Pardalou is a Biologist, holding an MSc in Oceanography, currently a PhD student in Fisheries Biology at the Laboratory of Ichthyology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). Her academic interest and working experience focus on MPA management, fisheries and the interactions between the latter and marine megafauna. She is a GIS and stock assessment certified expert. She is a certified Open Water Diver. She has published 6 peer reviewed journal articles and 10 other items.
Laboratory of Ichthyology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Androniki Pardalou, personal webpage
Sandra RAFAEL
Sandra Rafael is Assistant Researcher at Department of Environment and Planning of University of Aveiro, Portugal and member of the Associated Laboratory CESAM (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies). She has relevant knowledge and experience in environmental sciences and engineering field, namely on: air pollution and air quality modelling at different spatial scales (from hyperlocal to regional scale); nature based solutions, as adaptation measures to deal with climate change impacts and as a tool to improve air quality; interface areas such as, urban mobility, and citizens health. Her research work includes 29 WoS papers, 17 technical publications, and more than 80 communications in national and international conferences.
http://www.cesam.ua.pt/sandrarafael
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/AB18-60C2-DD95
Sandra Rafael is Assistant Researcher at Department of Environment and Planning of University of Aveiro, Portugal and member of the Associated Laboratory CESAM (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies). She has relevant knowledge and experience in environmental sciences and engineering field, namely on: air pollution and air quality modelling at different spatial scales (from hyperlocal to regional scale); nature based solutions, as adaptation measures to deal with climate change impacts and as a tool to improve air quality; interface areas such as, urban mobility, and citizens health. Her research work includes 29 WoS papers, 17 technical publications, and more than 80 communications in national and international conferences.
http://www.cesam.ua.pt/sandrarafael
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/AB18-60C2-DD95
Francesca RAFFAELE
Raffaele Francesca, Ph.D., is working at The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy (https://www.ictp.it) for the Earth System Physics Section. She is used to work with a large model ensemble of global and regional future climate projections for the evaluation of the models performance and study the global effects of hydroclimatic extremes, climate hazard indices as well as the impact on the water cycle. Since September 2019, she has been working as “contributing author” of the next AR6 IPCC report.
Raffaele Francesca, Ph.D., is working at The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy (https://www.ictp.it) for the Earth System Physics Section. She is used to work with a large model ensemble of global and regional future climate projections for the evaluation of the models performance and study the global effects of hydroclimatic extremes, climate hazard indices as well as the impact on the water cycle. Since September 2019, she has been working as “contributing author” of the next AR6 IPCC report.
Lena REIMANN
Lena Reimann is a research scientist at the ‘Coastal Risks and Sea-Level Rise’ research group at Kiel University, Germany. Her research focuses on characterizing socioeconomic vulnerability in coastal locations under a range of scenarios, and assessing potential future impacts of sea-level rise on vulnerability. She further explores the potential effects of adaptation strategies on the spatial and temporal dynamics of vulnerability, in particular focusing on coastal areas of the Mediterranean region.
https://www.crslr.uni-kiel.de/en/people/doctoral-researchers/lena-reimann.html
Lena Reimann is a research scientist at the ‘Coastal Risks and Sea-Level Rise’ research group at Kiel University, Germany. Her research focuses on characterizing socioeconomic vulnerability in coastal locations under a range of scenarios, and assessing potential future impacts of sea-level rise on vulnerability. She further explores the potential effects of adaptation strategies on the spatial and temporal dynamics of vulnerability, in particular focusing on coastal areas of the Mediterranean region.
https://www.crslr.uni-kiel.de/en/people/doctoral-researchers/lena-reimann.html
Alain ROQUES
Alain Roques is emeritus research scientist at the Orléans Forest Zoology research unit of INRAE, the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment. He has 35 years of experience in the biology, ecology and behavior of forest insects, especially focusing biological invasions and the effect of global warming on terrestrial invertebrates. He coordinated the inventory of alien terrestrial invertebrates in Europe within the DAISIE EU project, and was the editor of the book “Processionary moths and Climate Change: An update”.
Alain Roques is emeritus research scientist at the Orléans Forest Zoology research unit of INRAE, the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment. He has 35 years of experience in the biology, ecology and behavior of forest insects, especially focusing biological invasions and the effect of global warming on terrestrial invertebrates. He coordinated the inventory of alien terrestrial invertebrates in Europe within the DAISIE EU project, and was the editor of the book “Processionary moths and Climate Change: An update”.
Asma SAKKA HLAILI
Asma Sakka Hlaili is professor at Univ. of Carthage, Faculty of Science at Bizerte (Tunisia). She obtained a PhD in Biology from Univ. Laval in 1999. She has more than 20 years of experience in research on the eco-biology and diversity of plankton, the toxic and harmfull algal blooms, the marine eco-toxicology and bio-remediation, the planktonic food webs and the ecosystem health indicators. She has participated in several national and international projects concerning the ecology, the pollution and the sustainable development of coastal and marine waters. She is a member of international networks of experts in harmful microalgae (GlobalHAB-IOC-SCOR) and aquatic ecotoxicology (ECOBIM). She has more than fifty international publication (RG score 29.09, h-index 20).
Asma Sakka Hlaili is professor at Univ. of Carthage, Faculty of Science at Bizerte (Tunisia). She obtained a PhD in Biology from Univ. Laval in 1999. She has more than 20 years of experience in research on the eco-biology and diversity of plankton, the toxic and harmfull algal blooms, the marine eco-toxicology and bio-remediation, the planktonic food webs and the ecosystem health indicators. She has participated in several national and international projects concerning the ecology, the pollution and the sustainable development of coastal and marine waters. She is a member of international networks of experts in harmful microalgae (GlobalHAB-IOC-SCOR) and aquatic ecotoxicology (ECOBIM). She has more than fifty international publication (RG score 29.09, h-index 20).
Alberto SANTINI
Alberto Santini is a senior research fellow with the Institute of Sustainable Plant Protection of the Italian National Research Council. His work focuses on dynamics of arrival and spread of forest pathogens in Europe. His research encompasses pathogens early detection and diagnosis and forest tree species breeding and conservation. He is interested in the analysis and management of the risk of introducing alien plant pathogens through international trade and the ecological impacts of invasive alien species. http://www.ipsp.cnr.it/?lang=en
Alberto Santini is a senior research fellow with the Institute of Sustainable Plant Protection of the Italian National Research Council. His work focuses on dynamics of arrival and spread of forest pathogens in Europe. His research encompasses pathogens early detection and diagnosis and forest tree species breeding and conservation. He is interested in the analysis and management of the risk of introducing alien plant pathogens through international trade and the ecological impacts of invasive alien species. http://www.ipsp.cnr.it/?lang=en
Giuseppe SCARCELLA
Giuseppe Scarcella PhD is Researcher at the IRBIM-CNR, Ancona, Italy; reference scientist of IRBIM for stock assessment and evaluation of fisheries management plans. Current areas of research are: methodologies in stock assessment and experimental scientific trawl surveys. His scientific production presents an interdisciplinary spectrum of studies spanning from impact of artificial structures on the marine environment to evaluation of status of fishery resources and application of Ecosystem Approach to Fishery Management in the Mediterranean area.
Katrin SCHROEDER
Katrin Schroeder is a physical oceanographer, at CNR – Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR, Venice, Italy). She is part of the Excom at the European Marine Board (EMB), and represents CNR at the Board. Since 2019 she is the Chair of the “C2 – Physics and Climate of the Ocean” Committee of the CIESM, the Mediterranean Science Commission. She is also the Italian National Delegate at the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO)”. Additionally, she is Associated Editor for Frontiers in Marine Science – Physical Oceanography, and is currently Guest Editor for Ocean Science within an inter-journal special issue about the “hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean”. www.ismar.cnr.it
www.ciesm.org
Katrin Schroeder is a physical oceanographer, at CNR – Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR, Venice, Italy). She is part of the Excom at the European Marine Board (EMB), and represents CNR at the Board. Since 2019 she is the Chair of the “C2 – Physics and Climate of the Ocean” Committee of the CIESM, the Mediterranean Science Commission. She is also the Italian National Delegate at the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO)”. Additionally, she is Associated Editor for Frontiers in Marine Science – Physical Oceanography, and is currently Guest Editor for Ocean Science within an inter-journal special issue about the “hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean”. www.ismar.cnr.it
www.ciesm.org
Isla SIMPSON
Isla Simpson is a research scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, USA. Her research focuses on large-scale atmospheric dynamics and its representation in global climate models. She works to understand dynamical mechanisms involved in the variability and change of the large-scale atmospheric circulation and its impact on regional climate and hydroclimate using a hierarchy of modelling approaches. The overall aim being to determine the extent to which models can successfully capture the processes of relevance for the real atmosphere and determine how they can be improved. http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/staff/islas/
http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/
Isla Simpson is a research scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, USA. Her research focuses on large-scale atmospheric dynamics and its representation in global climate models. She works to understand dynamical mechanisms involved in the variability and change of the large-scale atmospheric circulation and its impact on regional climate and hydroclimate using a hierarchy of modelling approaches. The overall aim being to determine the extent to which models can successfully capture the processes of relevance for the real atmosphere and determine how they can be improved. http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/staff/islas/
http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/
Nicolina STAGLIANO
Meryem TANHARTE
Institution: Faculté des Sciences et Techniques – Mohammedia/University Hassan II – Casablanca, Morocco
Main fields of expertise: Climate change, climate variability, model development, climate modeling, extreme events, air quality modeling, bioaerosols, dust transport and desertification.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Meryem_Tanarhte
https://www.fstm.ac.ma/index.php
Rob TANNER
Rémi THIÉBLEMONT
Yves TRAMBLAY
Yves Tramblay completed in 2008 a Ph.D. in Hydrology at INRS-ETE(Québec, Canada). Since 2013, he has been working for the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD), in the HydroSciences Montpellier laboratory. His research focuses on hydrological hazards in the Mediterranean region, with the goals to improve the modelling of these events in semi-arid environments and also to estimate climate change impacts on these hazards. http://y.tramblay.free.fr
Yves Tramblay completed in 2008 a Ph.D. in Hydrology at INRS-ETE(Québec, Canada). Since 2013, he has been working for the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD), in the HydroSciences Montpellier laboratory. His research focuses on hydrological hazards in the Mediterranean region, with the goals to improve the modelling of these events in semi-arid environments and also to estimate climate change impacts on these hazards. http://y.tramblay.free.fr
Marco TURCO
Marco Turco received his Doctorate in Physics at the University of Barcelona in 2012. After he has developed his research at the CMCC (Italy), CNR (Italy), UB (Spain) and BSC (Spain). Currently his is a postdoc researcher of the University of Murcia (Spain). The focus of Dr. Turco is on making weather/climate information action-oriented, which he approached using multidisciplinary and multi-sectorial experiences on operational and research activities. http://marcoturco.weebly.com
https://www.um.es/gmar/projects/predfire-viewer.html
Marco Turco received his Doctorate in Physics at the University of Barcelona in 2012. After he has developed his research at the CMCC (Italy), CNR (Italy), UB (Spain) and BSC (Spain). Currently his is a postdoc researcher of the University of Murcia (Spain). The focus of Dr. Turco is on making weather/climate information action-oriented, which he approached using multidisciplinary and multi-sectorial experiences on operational and research activities. http://marcoturco.weebly.com
https://www.um.es/gmar/projects/predfire-viewer.html
Nassos VAFEIDIS
Nassos Vafeidis is Professor in Coastal Systems and Hazards at Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Germany. His research explores how coastal systems respond to combined pressures from natural and anthropogenic processes under different physical, socioeconomic and adaptation scenarios. A particular focus of his work is how sea-level rise and socioeconomic development can exacerbate the impacts of coastal hazards and increase coastal vulnerability. https://www.crslr.uni-kiel.de/en/
Martin WILD
Martin Wild is an adjunct professor at the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences of ETH Zurich. His research focus is on the improvement of the understanding and the quantification of the Earth’s energy balance and its changes over time, as documented in more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and four consecutive IPCC reports (AR3-AR6). For this purpose, he is working with both sophisticated Earth system models as well as comprehensive surface and space-born observational datasets.
Martin Wild is an adjunct professor at the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences of ETH Zurich. His research focus is on the improvement of the understanding and the quantification of the Earth’s energy balance and its changes over time, as documented in more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and four consecutive IPCC reports (AR3-AR6). For this purpose, he is working with both sophisticated Earth system models as well as comprehensive surface and space-born observational datasets.
Elena XOPLAKI
Elena Xoplaki is Senior Scientist, currently Acting Head of the Climatology, Climate Dynamics and Climate Change Research Group at Justus Liebig University Giessen. She is an expert on climate variability and change in the past, present and future with spatial focus on the greater Mediterranean region. She conducts multi- and interdisciplinary research and promotes collaboration between humanities, social and natural sciences on an international level. She is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.
Argyro ZENETOS
Dr. Argyro Zenetos is a Research Director at the Institute of Biological Resources and Inland Waters, HCMR. Argyro’s main research area over the last 20 years is invasion biology. She is the co-ordinator of the Hellenic Νetwork on Aquatic Invasive Species (ELNAIS) http://elnais.hcmr.gr/ . Argyro is a consultant to EEA and to UNEP MAP RAC/SPA;member of the EASIN Editorial Board; national expert in ICES/WGBOSV, COST 1209 and COST17122
Scholar Google: http://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=UFD4vWUAAAAJ&hl=el
Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Argyro_Zenetos
Dr. Argyro Zenetos is a Research Director at the Institute of Biological Resources and Inland Waters, HCMR. Argyro’s main research area over the last 20 years is invasion biology. She is the co-ordinator of the Hellenic Νetwork on Aquatic Invasive Species (ELNAIS) http://elnais.hcmr.gr/ . Argyro is a consultant to EEA and to UNEP MAP RAC/SPA;member of the EASIN Editorial Board; national expert in ICES/WGBOSV, COST 1209 and COST17122
Scholar Google: http://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=UFD4vWUAAAAJ&hl=el
Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Argyro_Zenetos
3.RESOURCES
3.1.WATER
Manolis GRILLAKIS
Dr Manolis Grillakis is currently a post-doctoral research scientist at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies (Institute of Technology & Research – Hellas), with a specific interest in modeling hydrological processes and their interactions under a changing climate. From 2009 to 2018 he was a research fellow at Technical University of Crete. He has participated in 14 European and national research projects and has 37 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. https://ims.forth.gr/en/profile/view?id=127
https://www.hydrogaia.gr/
Dr Manolis Grillakis is currently a post-doctoral research scientist at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies (Institute of Technology & Research – Hellas), with a specific interest in modeling hydrological processes and their interactions under a changing climate. From 2009 to 2018 he was a research fellow at Technical University of Crete. He has participated in 14 European and national research projects and has 37 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. https://ims.forth.gr/en/profile/view?id=127
https://www.hydrogaia.gr/
Rachid MRABET
Rachid Mrabet holds a PhD Degree from Colorado State University (1997). Research Director and Senior Cropping Systems Agronomist at Morocco’s National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA). Main research relates to conservation agriculture, dryland cropping systems agronomy, soil physics & hydrology, soil quality and carbon sequestration and crop and soil erosion process modeling. Deputy President of World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWAC) and Coordinating Lead Author for IPCC (AR6/AFOLU). http://www.inra.org.ma
Rachid Mrabet holds a PhD Degree from Colorado State University (1997). Research Director and Senior Cropping Systems Agronomist at Morocco’s National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA). Main research relates to conservation agriculture, dryland cropping systems agronomy, soil physics & hydrology, soil quality and carbon sequestration and crop and soil erosion process modeling. Deputy President of World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWAC) and Coordinating Lead Author for IPCC (AR6/AFOLU). http://www.inra.org.ma
David SAURI PUJOL
David Sauri is in the Geography Department and in the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain . Over the last 30 years he has worked on a variety of topics , especially water planning and management in urban and tourist areas; climate change impacts on the water sector; social issues regarding access to water and sanitation, and the impacts of hydrological extremes ( floods and droughts).
https://www.uab.cat/web/departament-de-geografia-1251960099015.html
https://ictaweb.uab.cat
David Sauri is in the Geography Department and in the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain . Over the last 30 years he has worked on a variety of topics , especially water planning and management in urban and tourist areas; climate change impacts on the water sector; social issues regarding access to water and sanitation, and the impacts of hydrological extremes ( floods and droughts).
https://www.uab.cat/web/departament-de-geografia-1251960099015.html
https://ictaweb.uab.cat
Robert SAVE
Dr. Robert Savé M. (July 14th, 1954 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is developing his scientific activity in Plant Science Area of IRTA also is the coordinator of Viticulture and Enology group of IRTA. Lecturer of Ecology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universidad Autónoma de Nicaragua-FAREM. He’s working from the plant to the landscape level, studying the adaptive and mitigation strategies of wild and crop vegetation to climate change. He is a player of Rugby Golden Oldies Team, XV Matusalem Sant Cugat, and birding.
Dr. Robert Savé M. (July 14th, 1954 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is developing his scientific activity in Plant Science Area of IRTA also is the coordinator of Viticulture and Enology group of IRTA. Lecturer of Ecology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universidad Autónoma de Nicaragua-FAREM. He’s working from the plant to the landscape level, studying the adaptive and mitigation strategies of wild and crop vegetation to climate change. He is a player of Rugby Golden Oldies Team, XV Matusalem Sant Cugat, and birding.
Mladen TODOROVIC
Mladen Todorović, scientific officer and coordinator of the Climate change knowledge unit at the CIHEAM Bari Institute. BSc in Civil Engineering, MSc in Irrigation, PhD in Agrometeorology, visiting Professor at the Belgrade University. Research activities focused on water/irrigation management, climate change impact/adaptation/mitigation in agriculture, crop growth modelling, eco-efficiency, and application of innovative smart technologies in water and land management.
Mladen Todorović, scientific officer and coordinator of the Climate change knowledge unit at the CIHEAM Bari Institute. BSc in Civil Engineering, MSc in Irrigation, PhD in Agrometeorology, visiting Professor at the Belgrade University. Research activities focused on water/irrigation management, climate change impact/adaptation/mitigation in agriculture, crop growth modelling, eco-efficiency, and application of innovative smart technologies in water and land management.
Yves TRAMBLAY
Yves Tramblay completed in 2008 a Ph.D. in Hydrology at INRS-ETE(Québec, Canada). Since 2013, he has been working for the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD), in the HydroSciences Montpellier laboratory. His research focuses on hydrological hazards in the Mediterranean region, with the goals to improve the modelling of these events in semi-arid environments and also to estimate climate change impacts on these hazards. http://y.tramblay.free.fr
Veronika ZWIRGLMAIER
Veronika Zwirglmaier is a PhD student at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany at the Chair of Human-Environment Relations held by Prof. Matthias Garschagen. Currently Veronika works on the development of urban risk under climate and socioeconomic changes with a focus on vulnerability and exposure towards floods. Before joining LMU she obtained her Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering at TU Munich. Her thesis in cooperation with the International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change focused on assessing future trends in water resources in Mediterranean region.
https://www.geografie.uni-muenchen.de/department/fiona/personen/index.php?personen_details=1&user_id=361
Veronika Zwirglmaier is a PhD student at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany at the Chair of Human-Environment Relations held by Prof. Matthias Garschagen. Currently Veronika works on the development of urban risk under climate and socioeconomic changes with a focus on vulnerability and exposure towards floods. Before joining LMU she obtained her Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering at TU Munich. Her thesis in cooperation with the International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change focused on assessing future trends in water resources in Mediterranean region.
https://www.geografie.uni-muenchen.de/department/fiona/personen/index.php?personen_details=1&user_id=361
3.2.FOOD
Eduardo AGUILERA
Eduardo Aguilera currently works as post-doc researcher at CEIGRAM (Technical University of Madrid), in Spain. His main research interest is the sustainability of agriculture and agri-food systems from an integrated perspective. His research has largely focused on historical and organic Mediterranean agroecosystems, including the quantification of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration, energy balances and nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus) and carbon cycles.
https://publons.com/researcher/1309011/eduardo-aguilera/
https://ceigram.upm.es/personal/
Eduardo Aguilera currently works as post-doc researcher at CEIGRAM (Technical University of Madrid), in Spain. His main research interest is the sustainability of agriculture and agri-food systems from an integrated perspective. His research has largely focused on historical and organic Mediterranean agroecosystems, including the quantification of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration, energy balances and nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus) and carbon cycles.
https://publons.com/researcher/1309011/eduardo-aguilera/
https://ceigram.upm.es/personal/
Luis ASIN
Alejandro BLAS
Alejandro Blas has a PhD in Agriculture Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He has been involved in research and sustainability innovation projects for almost 6 years in CEIGRAM research centre, has worked in development cooperation projects in other countries and work for 6 months in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. Presently, he works as a consultant for the Spanish Ministry of Foreign affairs regarding food security and nutrition, sustainable healthy diets and sustainable development.
Alejandro Blas has a PhD in Agriculture Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He has been involved in research and sustainability innovation projects for almost 6 years in CEIGRAM research centre, has worked in development cooperation projects in other countries and work for 6 months in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. Presently, he works as a consultant for the Spanish Ministry of Foreign affairs regarding food security and nutrition, sustainable healthy diets and sustainable development.
Andrej CEGLAR
Andrej Ceglar is a scientific officer and researcher in agro-meteorology and climatology at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. He completed a bachelor study in physics and meteorology at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Ljubljana, and a PhD in agro-meteorology at the Biotechnical Faculty of the same University. Before joining the JRC he worked as a researcher and assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana, holding classes on climatology, climate change and environmental modelling. His research is focused on climate change impact on agriculture and adaptation, dynamical and statistical climatology and biophysical modelling. He is especially interested in predictability of climate system on seasonal-to-decadal time scales.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrej_Ceglar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mh5HwKYAAAAJ&hl=en
Andrej Ceglar is a scientific officer and researcher in agro-meteorology and climatology at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. He completed a bachelor study in physics and meteorology at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Ljubljana, and a PhD in agro-meteorology at the Biotechnical Faculty of the same University. Before joining the JRC he worked as a researcher and assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana, holding classes on climatology, climate change and environmental modelling. His research is focused on climate change impact on agriculture and adaptation, dynamical and statistical climatology and biophysical modelling. He is especially interested in predictability of climate system on seasonal-to-decadal time scales.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrej_Ceglar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mh5HwKYAAAAJ&hl=en
Donna DIMARCHOPOULOU
Donna Dimarchopoulou holds a BS (Biology), MS (Hydrobiology-Aquaculture), and PhD degree (Fisheries Biology and Management), all from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Rhode Island, USA. She is interested in the effects of fishing and environmental changes on marine ecosystems, focusing on marine fisheries, ecosystem modeling, stock assessments, marine protected areas, and the benefits of fishing restrictions on marine populations. https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&oi=ao&user=_sVKWbQAAAAJ http://ahumphrieslab.com/dd-page
Donna Dimarchopoulou holds a BS (Biology), MS (Hydrobiology-Aquaculture), and PhD degree (Fisheries Biology and Management), all from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Rhode Island, USA. She is interested in the effects of fishing and environmental changes on marine ecosystems, focusing on marine fisheries, ecosystem modeling, stock assessments, marine protected areas, and the benefits of fishing restrictions on marine populations. https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&oi=ao&user=_sVKWbQAAAAJ http://ahumphrieslab.com/dd-page
Elena GEORGOPOULOU
Researcher at the National Observatory of Athens, Greece
Chemical Engineer, with a PhD in Energy Planning and Renewables. Since 2000, she works as a Main fields of expertise: climate change impact assessment, adaptation, and mitigation; energy planning; air pollution; cost-benefit analyses of environmental measures; decision-aid. IPCC Focal Point for Greece (2010-2018). Lead Author in the IPCC AR5 and AR6. Project leader in many national and European research projects on climate change and clean energy. www.noa.gr http://www.meteo.noa.gr/cv/Georgopoulou_cv_en.pdf
Researcher at the National Observatory of Athens, Greece
Chemical Engineer, with a PhD in Energy Planning and Renewables. Since 2000, she works as a Main fields of expertise: climate change impact assessment, adaptation, and mitigation; energy planning; air pollution; cost-benefit analyses of environmental measures; decision-aid. IPCC Focal Point for Greece (2010-2018). Lead Author in the IPCC AR5 and AR6. Project leader in many national and European research projects on climate change and clean energy. www.noa.gr http://www.meteo.noa.gr/cv/Georgopoulou_cv_en.pdf
Luis LASSALETTA
Luis Lassaletta works in the study of the nutrient cycles alteration and the relationships existing between agricultural practices and pollution from a systemic perspective from the crop to the global agro-food system scale. He has worked at universities and public institutions in Spain, France and the Netherlands. He studies the sustainability of the Mediterranean region, including past trends and future scenarios. He is a researcher at CEIGRAM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain).
https://publons.com/researcher/462635/luis-lassaletta/
https://ceigram.upm.es/personal/
Luis Lassaletta works in the study of the nutrient cycles alteration and the relationships existing between agricultural practices and pollution from a systemic perspective from the crop to the global agro-food system scale. He has worked at universities and public institutions in Spain, France and the Netherlands. He studies the sustainability of the Mediterranean region, including past trends and future scenarios. He is a researcher at CEIGRAM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain).
https://publons.com/researcher/462635/luis-lassaletta/
https://ceigram.upm.es/personal/
Androniki PARDALOU
Androniki Pardalou is a Biologist, holding an MSc in Oceanography, currently a PhD student in Fisheries Biology at the Laboratory of Ichthyology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). Her academic interest and working experience focus on MPA management, fisheries and the interactions between the latter and marine megafauna. She is a GIS and stock assessment certified expert. She is a certified Open Water Diver. She has published 6 peer reviewed journal articles and 10 other items.
Laboratory of Ichthyology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Androniki Pardalou, personal webpage
Androniki Pardalou is a Biologist, holding an MSc in Oceanography, currently a PhD student in Fisheries Biology at the Laboratory of Ichthyology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). Her academic interest and working experience focus on MPA management, fisheries and the interactions between the latter and marine megafauna. She is a GIS and stock assessment certified expert. She is a certified Open Water Diver. She has published 6 peer reviewed journal articles and 10 other items.
Laboratory of Ichthyology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Androniki Pardalou, personal webpage
Giuseppe SCARCELLA
Giuseppe Scarcella PhD is Researcher at the IRBIM-CNR, Ancona, Italy; reference scientist of IRBIM for stock assessment and evaluation of fisheries management plans. Current areas of research are: methodologies in stock assessment and experimental scientific trawl surveys. His scientific production presents an interdisciplinary spectrum of studies spanning from impact of artificial structures on the marine environment to evaluation of status of fishery resources and application of Ecosystem Approach to Fishery Management in the Mediterranean area.
Giuseppe Scarcella PhD is Researcher at the IRBIM-CNR, Ancona, Italy; reference scientist of IRBIM for stock assessment and evaluation of fisheries management plans. Current areas of research are: methodologies in stock assessment and experimental scientific trawl surveys. His scientific production presents an interdisciplinary spectrum of studies spanning from impact of artificial structures on the marine environment to evaluation of status of fishery resources and application of Ecosystem Approach to Fishery Management in the Mediterranean area.
Marco TURCO
Marco Turco received his Doctorate in Physics at the University of Barcelona in 2012. After he has developed his research at the CMCC (Italy), CNR (Italy), UB (Spain) and BSC (Spain). Currently his is a postdoc researcher of the University of Murcia (Spain). The focus of Dr. Turco is on making weather/climate information action-oriented, which he approached using multidisciplinary and multi-sectorial experiences on operational and research activities. http://marcoturco.weebly.com https://www.um.es/gmar/projects/predfire-viewer.html
Marco Turco received his Doctorate in Physics at the University of Barcelona in 2012. After he has developed his research at the CMCC (Italy), CNR (Italy), UB (Spain) and BSC (Spain). Currently his is a postdoc researcher of the University of Murcia (Spain). The focus of Dr. Turco is on making weather/climate information action-oriented, which he approached using multidisciplinary and multi-sectorial experiences on operational and research activities. http://marcoturco.weebly.com https://www.um.es/gmar/projects/predfire-viewer.html
Matteo ZAMPIERI
Climate scientist, Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Italy. He holds a Master and a PhD in Physics. In the last twenty years, he conducted research on atmospheric and land surface processes in Italy, France, Poland, Greece and Saudi Arabia, contributing to almost fifty peer review papers. He obtained a few Prizes and Awards and two Marie Curie Grants. At the JRC, he is investigating the climate resilience of agricultural production and of natural ecosystems. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matteo_Zampieri https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteo-zampieri-6a4b23a/
Climate scientist, Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Italy. He holds a Master and a PhD in Physics. In the last twenty years, he conducted research on atmospheric and land surface processes in Italy, France, Poland, Greece and Saudi Arabia, contributing to almost fifty peer review papers. He obtained a few Prizes and Awards and two Marie Curie Grants. At the JRC, he is investigating the climate resilience of agricultural production and of natural ecosystems. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matteo_Zampieri https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteo-zampieri-6a4b23a/
3.3.ENERGY
Kaouther BEN NASR
Assistant professor in the University of Carthage and researcher in the Centre of researches and technologies of energy in Tunisia CRTEn. Her current activities are: research project manager in the laboratory of thermal processes LPT/CRTEn and quality manager in the laboratory for testing solar heating systems in CRTEn. She acquired expertise in: solar energy and its applications in thermal processes (air conditioning, desalination), numerical simulation and experimentation.
Assistant professor in the University of Carthage and researcher in the Centre of researches and technologies of energy in Tunisia CRTEn. Her current activities are: research project manager in the laboratory of thermal processes LPT/CRTEn and quality manager in the laboratory for testing solar heating systems in CRTEn. She acquired expertise in: solar energy and its applications in thermal processes (air conditioning, desalination), numerical simulation and experimentation.
Thierry BRUNELLE
Thierry Brunelle (PhD) is a CIRAD researcher at the international research center on environment and development (CIRED) in France. He is an agricultural economist working on the conflicts on land use at the global and regional scale. His current research focuses on exploring the potentials for food and bioenergy production using partial and general equilibrium modelling methods. He was involved in experts-based long-term agricultural foresight exercise, as well as in several national and international research projects, including multidisciplinary collaborations with climatologists.
Thierry Brunelle (PhD) is a CIRAD researcher at the international research center on environment and development (CIRED) in France. He is an agricultural economist working on the conflicts on land use at the global and regional scale. His current research focuses on exploring the potentials for food and bioenergy production using partial and general equilibrium modelling methods. He was involved in experts-based long-term agricultural foresight exercise, as well as in several national and international research projects, including multidisciplinary collaborations with climatologists.
Mikaël CUGNET
Since 2010, Mikaël Cugnet acts as a battery expert at the French Commission for Atomic and Alternative Energies (CEA), managing many academic and industrial projects on different technologies (Pb, Ni, Li, and Na), mostly focused on battery modeling and diagnosis for transport applications. He is a member of the Electrochemical Society, has attended more than 30 international conferences, holds 4 book chapters, 6 patents, and 19 articles. He also acts as an expert for the European Commission. https://liten.cea.fr/cea-tech/liten
Since 2010, Mikaël Cugnet acts as a battery expert at the French Commission for Atomic and Alternative Energies (CEA), managing many academic and industrial projects on different technologies (Pb, Ni, Li, and Na), mostly focused on battery modeling and diagnosis for transport applications. He is a member of the Electrochemical Society, has attended more than 30 international conferences, holds 4 book chapters, 6 patents, and 19 articles. He also acts as an expert for the European Commission. https://liten.cea.fr/cea-tech/liten
Paole DE JOANNA
Sokol DERVISHI
Juan FERNANDEZ-MANJARRES
Juan Fernandez-Manjarres is an ecologist working since 2009 with CNRS in France, and based at the University Paris-Saclay. His interests are centered on the study of change in managed ecosystems, with a focus in systems where trees are dominant (managed forests and agroforestry systems). His methods are interdisciplinary, mostly by combining ecological concepts with human organization principles. Currently he is focusing on climate impacts on agroforestry zones in Equatorial America. https://www.ese.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/team-members/juan-fernandez-manjarres/
Juan Fernandez-Manjarres is an ecologist working since 2009 with CNRS in France, and based at the University Paris-Saclay. His interests are centered on the study of change in managed ecosystems, with a focus in systems where trees are dominant (managed forests and agroforestry systems). His methods are interdisciplinary, mostly by combining ecological concepts with human organization principles. Currently he is focusing on climate impacts on agroforestry zones in Equatorial America. https://www.ese.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/team-members/juan-fernandez-manjarres/
