Gianmaria Sannino, climatologist, holds a PhD in Marine Science and Engineering from the Federico II University of Naples. Since 2022, he has been Director of the ENEA Division “Models and technologies for the reduction of anthropogenic impacts and natural risks”. The Division focuses on the study of climate change and its impacts, atmospheric pollution and the prevention of seismic and hydrogeological risks. From 2015 to 2022, he was head of ENEA’s Climate Modelling and Impacts Laboratory.
His research activity is mainly focused on the study of climate variability and the development of the marine energy sector. He is the author/co-author of over 90 publications on these topics in peer-reviewed international journals, books and proceedings. He has also collaborated on several international scientific projects (including: Earth and Planetary Science Department – MIT USA, Dep. de Física Aplicada – University of Malaga, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute – USA, IMEDEA – Spain, Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University – Turkey). He is the coordinator and partner of several national and international research projects aimed at studying the impacts of climate change and the production of electricity from the sea. He has extensive experience in evaluating national and international scientific research for various organisations (National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research System, CINECA, PRACE, European Commission–Directorate General Research, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France)).
Since 2010, he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the joint European programme “Marine Renewable Energy” proposed by the EERA (European Energy Research Alliance). Since 2017, he has represented Italy in the Implementation Working Group “Ocean Energy” of the SET-Plan, the European Commission’s Energy Technology Development Plan. Since 2021, he has held the position of European coordinator of the IWG “Ocean Energy” of the SET-Plan. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Technical Scientific Committee of the BIG-Blue Italian Growth National Technology Cluster. Since 2015, he has represented ENEA at the European Global Ocean Observing System (EuroGOOS) and has been a member of the Scientific Committee of ECRA (European Climate Research Alliance) and the Med-CORDEX Scientific Committee, an international initiative promoted by the United Nations for the production of detailed climate projections for the Mediterranean region. From 2015 to 2022, he also coordinated the international research programme “Sea level and climate change” promoted by ECRA.