Maria Katherina Dal Barco is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategies division of the CMCC Foundation (Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici), within the H2020 MYRIAD-EU and Interreg Italy-Croatia AcquaGuard projects.

She helds a PhD in “Science and Management of Climate Change” at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she applied Artificial Intelligence methods for multi-risk assessment in coastal areas, with a focus on the coastal area of the Veneto region, in the frame of the Interreg Italy-Croatia AdriaClim and H2020 MYRIAD_EU projects.

She graduated in “Environmental Science – Global Environmental Change” at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her MSc thesis focused on the development and implementation of a Bayesian Network approach for multi-scenario analysis supporting coastal erosion risk management in the Apulian shoreline carried out within the Interreg Greece-Italy TRITON project. During her MSc Degree Programme Maria Katherina held a training internship at the CMCC Foundation, where she gained expertise in climate change and coastal erosion risk assessment and management within CORILA Venezia2021, SAVEMEDCOASTS-2, DG CLIMA and Interreg Greece-Italy TRITON projects.

Since March 2020 she has been part of RAAS Division at CMCC, initially as Affiliated Researcher and now  as Jr. Research Associate  within H2020 MYRIAD_EU and Interreg AcquaGuard projects. Her research interests refer to climate change vulnerability, multi-risk assessment and management, with particular interest in coastal areas.

Furthermore, she is collaborating with local stakeholders to disseminate the results of the research conducted within the above-mentioned projects to local communities and authorities.