Manuela Balzarolo is a senior scientist of the Division on Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services at the Institute for Climate Resilience of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation.

She has more than 15 years of expertise in remote sensing applications for terrestrial ecosystem monitoring, with a focus on modelling the impact of climate change and extremes on ecosystem functions and carbon cycle. She obtained a master’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy and a PhD in Forest Ecology at the University of Viterbo in Italy. Manuela works as a scientist in international research groups in Belgium and Spain for more than 10 years during which she led projects as Principal Investigator (PI) and contributed to the assessment of ecosystem services at different scales (e.g., plant and ecosystem, seasonal and annual level) and adopting fieldworks, data analysis and modelling.