Valentina Grasso

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Valentina Grasso is a researcher at the National Research Council of Italy, Institute of BioEconomy (CNR IBE), and communication officer at LaMMA Consortium, the regional weather service of Tuscany.

Since 2010 she has curated LaMMA’s institutional communication, working alongside the forecasting team on the communication of weather warnings within the regional Civil Protection alert system; she is also a weather presenter on LaMMA’s online channels, together with the forecasters.

Her research focuses on the communication and perception of weather and climate risk. She is a Board member of the Ibero-Italian Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis Europe and a Management Committee member for Italy of the COST Action AlertHub, dedicated to warning communication. She also collaborates with the WMO Regional Training Centre hosted at CNR-IBE on weather and warning communication.

With Filip Bukowski, she is one of the founders and coordinators of the Met-Comm group, a network of weather communication experts, researchers and professionals from European meteorological services and research institutions.