GIANNINI Alessandra

Alessandra Giannini


 Education

Laurea in Physics, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University in the City of New York

 Research interests

A climate scientist engaged in international collaboration in scientific research and in science-policy dialogues, especially in Africa, Alessandra Giannini is best known for her post-doctoral work that conclusively demonstrated the oceanic origin of Sahel drought http://science.sciencemag.org/content/302/5647/1027.

After a postdoctoral appointment at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado, Giannini joined the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) in 2003. In December 2018 she moved to the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique thanks to a "Make Our Planet Great Again" grant https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2017/12/12/columbia-researcher-joins-quest-make-planet-great/>. In December 2020, she took on a full professor position at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Research interests include the dynamics of tropical climate (drought and recovery in the Sahel ; monsoons and climate change ; the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and its teleconnections ; El Niño as an analogue in climate change) ; the impact of climate on society (desertification and re-greening in the Sahel ; climate sensitivity of food security) ; adaptation and mitigation win-wins in developing countries, and scientific communication (teaching climate change in high school as an interdisciplinary endeavor ; the role of scientific knowledge in policy and practice)

 Publications

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5425-4995>ORCID  ;
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=35616612800>Scopus Author 
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-7163-2016>Thomson-Reuters Researcher 
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ypTUvkgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra>Google Scholar

 Honors and awards

Laureate of Make Our Planet Great Again, President Emmanuel Macron’s initiative to support climate change research (2017)

NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) (2010)

Contact

■ Adresse
CERES
École Normale supérieure
45 rue d’Ulm
F-75230 Paris cedex 05
et (salle de cours du CERES et bureau supplémentaire) :
24 rue Lhomond
75005 Paris
48 boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris

■ Direction
Alessandra Giannini, Marc Fleurbaey

■  Direction du master "Science de la durabilité"
Corinne Robert : corinne.robert[at]ens.psl.eu

■  Responsable pédagogique
Yaël Gagnepain : yael.gagnepain[at]ens.psl.eu
Master "Science de la durabilité" : Charles Claron - charles.claron[at]ens.psl.eu

■  Responsable partenariats acteurs non-académiques
Annabel Lavigne : annabel.lavigne[at]ens.psl.eu

■ Administration
Kadija Aouni : kadija.aouni[at]ens.psl.eu
Master "Science de la durabilité" : à venir
Blandine Lathuilllière (chargée de projet transition écologique et sociale) blandine.lathuilliere[at]ens.psl.eu

 

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