Chiara De Notaris works for the Division on Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services (IAFES), in Viterbo. She has a PhD in Agroecology from Aarhus University (Denmark), where she gained expertise in experimental work on carbon and nitrogen cycling in agroecosystems. She is passionate about agroecological practices and how they can support a sustainable management of cropping systems. Since 2022 she works with climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies within European projects. She strongly believes in the importance of scientific dissemination, and grabs any chance of talking with people.