Roberta D’Agostino is a research scientist in Climate Dynamics at CNR-ISAC, Lecce since 2022.

She hs completed the PhD in Ecology and Climate Change at University of Salento in 2016. There, she investigated the response of tropical atmospheric circulation to a wide range external forcing in climate model simulations, spanning from the Last Glacial Maximum to Mid-Holocene conditions and future global warming scenarios. Afterwards, she moved as research fellow at ETH Zürich continuing her work on large scale atmospheric dynamics. Roberta’s main postdoctoral activities has been carried out at Max-Planck-Institute für Meteorologie in Hamburg (2016 – 2022). She has spent 6 years working in both Land and Ocean Departments, focusing on Holocene monsoon variability, seeking for emergent constraints linking past and future precipitation response. Before moving permanently to Lecce, she has been hired at University of Trento (2022) as RTD-a in Environmental, Mechanics and Civil Engineering Department, where she explored tropical Atlantic precipitation and global monsoons in the newest developed Storm Resolving Earth System Models.

Since 2019 she is convener at European Geoscience Union General Assembly (Global monsoons and Energy and Dynamics in the Earth System sessions). She has been selected as Expert Reviewer for IPCC 6th Assessment Report, she is editor for “Frontiers in Climate” and she is serving as reviewer for major scientific journals (Science, Nature Communication, Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience, Scientific Report, Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters, Environmental Research Letters, Climate Dynamics…). Furthermore, Roberta is qualified as Associate Professor in A4/04 – GEO12 since 2022. She has taught Climate Modelling and Monitoring at University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, and Introduction to Climate Change at University of Trento, with experience in supervising Master and PhD students. She has been invited for visiting periods at various international institutions (California Institute of Technology, United States, University of Reading, United Kingdom, Japan Meteorological Agency, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia).

Her main research activity is devoted to understand mechanisms for large-scale atmospheric circulation and hydrological budget response to different external forcing in past, present and future climate model simulations, with a particular emphasis on Hadley Circulation, monsoons and Mediterranean climate. She is currently investigating the impact of internal variability and external forcing (e.g. GHG, aerosols, volcanic eruptions, dust, land-use change) on monsoon dynamics and megadroughts in regions with Mediterranean-like climates.