Guido Rianna in 2007 graduated with honours in Civil Engineering at University of Naples “Federico II”. In 2011, he got PhD in Geotechnical Engineering with a thesis about predictive models in early warning systems for landslide events. Since 2012, he works for CMCC Foundation where he currently acts as Director for “Soil and Water Systems” [SOWAS] Division. Earlier, he was Leader of “Adaptation Engineering”Unit in Regional Models and geo-Hydrological Impacts (REMHI) Division. In 2019, he earned National Scientific Qualification as Assistant Professor for Geotechnical Engineering. He was consultant for EEA and, in 2013, foreign expert at Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES). He was involved in several national and international Projects acting, in some cases, as scientific coordinator for CMCC Foundation. Among the others, he currently acts as Deputy Coordinator for The HuT “Human-Tech Nexus” Horizon Europe Project. He is Work Package Leader for ACQUAOUNT PRIMA Project and Integrated Life “ClimaxPo” Project. He acted as Service Manager for two Copernicus Climate Change Service Contracts: Sectoral Information System “Disaster Risk Reduction” and Demo Case “Soil Erosion”. He worked in FP7 INTACT acting as test case coordinator for the impacts of landslides on critical infrastructures, INTERREG PROLINE-CE acting as Leader of WP “Synopsis: Vision and guidance”. He was scientific coordinator for the development of European Extreme Events Climate Index (E3CI) and was co-leader for the factsheet on Built Environment in EUCRA. He is author of about 60 papers in peer reviewed journals and editor for “Landslides” Journal.