Gina Marano

Gina Marano

Funzione

PostDoc

Unità

Risorse e gestione forestale

Gruppo

Analisi delle risorse

  

Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Sito

WSL Birmensdorf Bi

Research Interests

  • process-based and oriented forest modelling
  • effects of climate and climate extremes on forest dynamics (growth, mortality)
  • design and simulate forest management scenarios 

 

Education

Since 2025

PostDoc

Group: Resource Analysis, FOREMA, WSL, Switzerland

Project: MASSIMO-Klima (Verbesserung der Modellierung der Waldentwicklung in der Schweiz für extreme Klimaszenarien)

2021 - 2025

PhD in Forest Ecology, ETH Zurich. 

Group: Forest Ecology, Stand and Landscape Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Thesis: “Unravelling the death spiral: a process-based assessment of the drivers and ecological responses of temperate forests to drought stress”. 

Project: SNF N. 188882 “Embracing structural uncertainty in models of forest dynamics”. 

2020 - 2018

Research fellowship

Group: Interdepartmental Research Center on the “Earth Critical Zone” for Landscape and Agro-environment Management Support

University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Topic: “Implementation and testing of tools for supporting sustainable forest management”

Project: LANDSUPPORT H2020 project (GA: 774234)

2018

MSc Forestry, University of Padua (Italy)

2014

BSc Forestry, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)