ANNALISA DI BERNARDINO

ANNALISA DI BERNARDINO
Department of Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
E-mail: annalisa.dibernardino@uniroma1.it

BIBLIOMETRIC INDICES (as of 11/2025)
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3765-2179
Scopus: ID = 56479293300, documents: 58, citations: 508, h-index: 14
GoogleScholar: documents: 58, citations: 620, h-index: 16

EDUCATION/CAREER
• 2025-today: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTT), University of Rome "La Sapienza", Department of Physics
• 2024-2025: Research Fellow, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Department of Physics
• 2018-2024: Assistant Professor (RTD-A), University of Rome "La Sapienza", Department of Physics
• 2017-2019: Research Fellow, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental engineering
• 2016-2017: Research Fellow, Polytechnic of Bari, Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building and Chemistry
• 2012-2016: Ph.D. in “Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering”, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental engineering. Rating: excellent
• 2010-2012: Master Degree in “Engineering for building construction and environmental systems”, University of Rome "La Sapienza. Vote: 110 cum laude
• 2007-2012: Bachelor Degree in “Environmental Engineering”, University of Rome "La Sapienza". Vote: 110 cum laude

MAIN RESEARCH TOPICS
Urban meteorology • Urban heat island • Atmospheric pollution • Atmospheric remote sensing • Sea and land breeze regimes • Gravity flows • Turbulent mixing • Flow and pollutant dispersion in urban canopies • Mesoscale and microscale numerical simulations • Laboratory scale simulation of urban canopies.
This activity is documented by 30+ papers published in peer-reviewed journals and by other publications and talks. She has collaborated with several research institutions (e.g. ISAC-CNR, IIA-CNR, ENEA, ESA, EUMETSAT, ARPA Lazio, ARPA Valle d’Aosta)

MAIN RESEARCH GRANTS
• 2024-today: University funding for MEDIUM RESEARCH PROJECTS - Mitigation strategies for safeguarding and managing cultural heritage at risk from a changing climate
Role: Participant
• 2023-today: University funding for Scientific Research Sapienza - NanoOptical Microscopy SNOM
Role: Participant
• 2023-today: University funding for BIG RESEARCH PROJECTS - Challenges and opportunities to monitor climate change impacts in the Rome urban area: a multi-scale approach.
Role: Participant
• 2023-today: PRIN 2022 - uRban hEat and pollution iSlands inTerAction in Rome and possible miTigation strategies (RESTART)
Role: Principal Investigator and coordinator of the scientific activity of the research unit of University of Rome “La Sapienza”
• 2022-2024: FISR 2019 - Compact Raman Lidar for measuring thermodynamic profiles and CO2 in the atmosphere (CONCERNING)
Role: Coordinator of the scientific activity of the research unit of University of Rome “La Sapienza”
• 2022-today: PNRA 2018 - Clouds and radiation in the Arctic and Antarctica (CLARA 2)
Role: Coordinator of the scientific activity of the research unit of University of Rome “La Sapienza”
• 2022-today: PRA 2019 - Effects of Changing Albedo and Precipitation on the Arctic Climate
Role: Coordinator of the scientific activity of the research unit of University of Rome “La Sapienza”
• 2022-today: Boundary-layer Air Quality-analysis Using Network of Instruments (BAQUNIN)
Role: Coordinator of the scientific activity of the research unit of University of Rome “La Sapienza”
• 2022-today: Quality Assurance for Earth Observation (QA4EO) - WP 2186: On-site maintenance and operations of sky cameras for CMIX
Role: Coordinator of the scientific activity of the research unit of University of Rome “La Sapienza”
• 2022-today: Quality Assurance for Earth Observation (QA4EO) - WP 2320: On-site hosting, maintenance and operations of PREDE-POM at APL site
Role: Coordinator of the scientific activity of the research unit of University of Rome “La Sapienza”
• 2019-today: University funding for MEDIUM RESEARCH PROJECTS - Seagull Atmospheric Borne Measurements (SBAM)
Role: Principal Investigator
• 2019-2021: MicroClimArt
Role: Participant
• 2017-2019: Integrated Assessment of Particulate Exposure in Indoor environments (VIEPI)
Role: Participant
• 2014-2016: University funding for RESEARCH START-UP PROJECTS - Experimental analysis of the concentration field within two-dimensional and three-dimensional urban canopies.
Role: Principal Investigator
• 2015-2016: Collaboration agreement between the Extraordinary Commissioner for urgent reclamation, environmentalization and redevelopment interventions in Taranto and the Polytechnic of Bari, for the purpose of reclamation and redevelopment of the Taranto basin
Role: Principal Investigator

TEACHING ACTIVITY
• 2024-today: Mechanics Laboratory (Bachelor Degree in Physics), exercises
• 2018-today: Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics (Master degree in Atmospheric Science and Technology)
• 2018-2021: Introduction to Atmospheric Physics (Bachelor degree in Physics), lectures and exams
• 2016-2018: Urban Climatology (Master degree in Environmental Engineering), classroom exercises and exams
• 2021-today: Supervisor of 2 Ph.D student in Information and communications technologies, curriculum Remote Sensing
• 2020-today: Member of the Advisory Committee of 3 Ph.D. students in Information and communications technologies, curriculum Remote Sensing
• 2013-today: Supervisor and/or co-supervisor of +20 bachelor and master's degree thesis
• 2022-today: Member of academic board of Ph.D. in Information and communications technologies

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES
Scientific committee of the 4th National Congress of the Italian Association of Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, 15-19 February 2022, Milan (Italy)

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
• Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Turbulent Flow Simulations” of Energies
• Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Challenges in Modelling and Observing Urban Environments: Recent Trends, Current Progress and Future Directions” of Atmosphere
• Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Recent advancements in ventilation and thermal processes in urban environment” of Environmental Fluid Mechanics
• Reviewer for Urban Climate, Journal of Climatology, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Science of the Total Environment, Energies, Atmosphere, Remote Sensing, Toxics, Applied Sciences, Fluid, Meteorological Application, Photonics, Sustainability, Climate, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Journal of Building Engineering