Monia Santini

Monia Santini serves as Director of the Institute for Climate Resilience and Principal Scientist at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), where she has led scientific and project management activities for over 13 years within the IAFES Division.

Her academic credentials include a master’s degree in Geological Sciences from Sapienza University of Rome, a PhD in Forest Ecology from the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, and a Post-University Master in General and Applied Geophysics from INGV/University of Pisa.

Dr. Santini specializes in GIS-based water cycle and land use change evaluations under climate variability, with particular expertise in hydrological drought indicators and low-inflow period analysis. Her research quantifies climate-terrestrial ecosystem feedbacks through water-soil-plant interactions, focusing on water resource impacts, and leverages advanced GIS terrain analysis algorithms for robust hydrological modeling.

Her publication portfolio reveals strong interdisciplinary trends across climate resilience domains, including carbon sequestration frameworks, land use change effects on infectious disease emergence, machine learning applications in terrestrial ecology, and high-resolution climate projections for Mediterranean regions, consistently integrating computational methods with environmental systems analysis.

With extensive project management experience at CMCC, she directs strategic research initiatives and oversees resource allocation for climate impact studies, though specific grant details remain unlisted in available sources.

The Institute for Climate Resilience under her leadership develops science-based adaptation strategies through multidisciplinary teams utilizing high-performance computing and advanced modeling to deliver actionable climate services for Euro-Mediterranean policymakers and stakeholders.