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Gina Marano

Living in Canton of Zurich, Switzerland

Languages: Italian (mothertongue), English (C1), German (B2), Spanish (B1), French (A2)

Work experience

• Since September 2025: Post Doc position, Resource Analysis group at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL

– Project: “ReForMASSIMO: Verbesserung der Modellierung der Waldentwicklung in der Schweiz für relevante Klimaszenarien mit dem Modell Massimo Model webpage

— Project supervisors: Dr. Golo Stadelmann, Dr. Esther Thürig.

— Financed by the Federal Office for the Environment. Scientific officers: Dr. Nele Rogier, Dr. Andreas Schellenberger

Education

• PhD student in Forest Ecology at ETH Zurich, January 2021-August 2025

  – Project: “Analysis of structural uncertainty in soil water balance formulations to assess effects of drought on temperate forest dynamics: a forest modeling perspective”. Founding scheme: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Division I-III, number 188882, title: “Embracing structural uncertainty in models of forest dynamics” Project webpage

  – Outcomes: main developer of the ForClim version 4.1 and 4.2.

• Research Fellowship, 2018-2020

  Horizon 2020 Project 774234: Development of Integrated Web-Based Land Decision Support System Aiming Towards the Implementation of Policies for Agriculture and Environment

  Role: Development of geoSpatial Decision Support System Tools for forestry practice for Campania Region (Italy, NUTS-2 and NUTS-3 level). Project webpage and access to the S-DSS LANSUPPORT.

  Group leader of Forestry group within LANDSUPPORT project WP3-Developing high performance models.

  Testing of Dynamic Vegetation Model 3D-CMCC-FEM for selected study sites in Campania Region. Collaboration with Forest Modelling Laboratory lead by Dr. Alessio Collalti. Model and lab. webpage.

• Master’s Degree, MSc Forestry curriculum Forestry and Silviculture, 2018

  110/110 cum laude

  Universita’ degli Studi di Padova

• BSc Forestry, 2014

  110/110 cum laude

  Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

• Classical Gymnasium, 2011

  100/100 cum laude

  Convitto Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II Napoli, Italy

 

Forestry-related social activities:

• Wood constructions with my husband: Our webpage

Other Forestry Social activities:

• LarsOfTheWoods: this is the Instagram social channel of our beloved dog where my husband and I share his activities and mayhem LarsOfTheWoods webpage