Department: Research Infrastructure Committee (RIC)

Ana Lillebø holds a PhD in Biology, specialisation in Ecology (2001) from University of Coimbra, Portugal and habilitation in Biology (2023) from University of Aveiro, Portugal. She is a well-established researcher in Coastal Ecosystems with focus on: Coastal Ecosystems Ecological Status & Management; Applied Ecology & Nature-based solutions; Environmental Chemistry & Anthropogenic impacts; EU Policies & Ecosystem Services, in a transdisciplinary context (ORCID: 0000-0002-5228-0329; Scopus h index=44). She was the Scientific Coordinator of CESAM – Centre for Environmental and marine Studies from May 2017 until May 2021. Currently, she is CESAM’s representative and Vice-Chair of AlterNet: A long-term biodiversity, ecosystems, and awareness research network. Since May 2022, she is the Vice-Rector to matters concerning the promotion of quality, communication, effectiveness and efficiency of the University and environmental sustainability.

Marine biologist specializing in the genetic diversity and connectivity of marine species, the development of molecular tools and the effects of pollution on marine organisms at the subcellular level.

Research Doctorate in Physics in 1987. Currently, research director at the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources of CNR; director of the Institute from 2015 to 2024.

Member of the Scientific Council of the CIMA Research Foundation. National coordinator of the LifeWatch Italy JRU. Research activities on the analysis and modelling of climate change impacts on ecosystems and carbon and water cycles, geosphere-biosphere interactions, Critical Zone processes, mountain environments, planetary fluid dynamics.

Golden Badge Award of the European Geophysical Society in 1997. Invited scientist at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, at the Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva (Israel) and at the University of Colorado in Boulder (USA).

Organizer of summer schools and scientific workshops. Tutor of more than 20 Doctorate Theses. Coordinator of the EU H2020 project “ECOPOTENTIAL” devoted to the use of Earth Observations to improve ecosystem benefits (2015-2019) and of several national projects. Participant and node coordinator in several EU projects. Co-lead of the Action Group “Biodiversity, ecosystems and geodiversity” of EuroGEO and of the GEO Mountains Initiative.

Author of more than 180 papers in international peer-reviewed journals (ISI), h index=51 (Scopus). Author of dissemination books and articles.