Francesca Ventura

Francesca Ventura is the President of the Italian Association of AgroMeteorology (AIAM), and representing the EMS Member Societies of Italy on the EMS Council 2024 to 2027.
Deputy is Dino Zardi.
Francesca Ventura was elected president in 2018, and confirmed in 2022. She is Publication Director of the Italian Journal of AgroMeteorology, the official periodical of AIAM. This Journal publishes scientific articles in English on topics typical of meteorology and hydrology interactions with agricultural and forest ecosystem.
Francesca is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences of the University of Bologna, teaching Agrometeorology and Agroclimatology. Here she is involved in studies on crops phenology, agrometeorological modelling of Crops Growth and Irrigation Scheduling, Soil-Water-Atmosphere relations, evapotranspiration from crops and on evaporation from bare soil, their modelling.