Giulia Mengoli is a researcher at the Institute for Climate Resilience of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change. She collaborates with Sandy Harrison within the implementation working group for the LEMONTREE project.
Giulia’s PhD project, funded by the ERC Advanced Grant “Re-Inventing Ecosystem And Land-surface models” (REALM), was carried out at Imperial College London under the supervision of Colin Prentice in collaboration with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) and the University of Reading, co-supervised by LEMONTREE’s Sandy Harrison and Anna Agustí-Panareda. Her PhD work centred on the deployment of a new ecosystem model that combines satellite observations with eco-evolutionary optimality theory to predict canopy-level conductance and photosynthesis and improve near-real-time weather forecasting. Her works contribute to the LEMONTREE project.
Giulia’s research interests are in ecology, eco-evolutionary theory and the study of how to model the influence of environmental conditions on vegetation growth and land-atmosphere carbon, water and energy exchanges under climate change.
Giulia is now working on implementing the P model in CLM, the model used at CMCC, applying the first-principle-approach designed to simulate the different timescales of plants responses to environmental changes, widely used within the LEMONTREE community.