Address: DISTAL, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences
University of Bologna, viale G. Fanin 44 40127 BOLOGNA ITALY. Tel. 051/2096658, e-mail: francesca.ventura@unibo.it
Education:
University of Bologna, Italy:
1988 Degree in Physics, 1994 specialization in
Environmental Science and Technology
University of Sassari, Italy:
1998 PhD in Biometeorology
The PHd thesis was published with the title: VENTURA F., FABER
B., BALI K., SNYDER R.L., SPANO D., DUCE P., SCHULBACH K.F., 2001.
“A model for estimating evaporation and transpiration from row
crops”. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 127, 6,
339-345. The paper won the prize "Best Practice Paper 2001" of the
American Society of Civil Engineers (EWRI-ASCE).
Researcher at the Department of Agroenvironmental Science and
Technology of the University of Bologna from 1999.
Present position:
She is associate professor at the Department of Agricultural
Sciences of the University of Bologna from the 15th of September,
2014.
In 2006 was elected in the Board of the Italian Association of
Agrometeorology, from 2018 she is the President. From 2010 is
Editor in chief of the Italian Journal of Agrometeorology. She is
member of the Italian Society of Agronomy. From a.y. 2001/02 she
has been teaching Agrometeorology, Agroclimatology and Experimental
methodology in First or Second level degrees of the Faculty of
Agricolture of the University of Bologna. From a.y. 2002/03 she is
part of the Collegio dei docenti of the PhD school of the
University of Sassari. She taught Agrometeorology and Data analysis
in the Land and Water Conservation Master and in the Doctoral
School of the Faculty of Agricolture of the University of
Bologna.
President
of the Italian Association of Agrometeorology, AIAM. Member of the
Italian Society for Agronomy (SIA), European Society for Agronomy
(ESA), Associazione Italiana di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e Meteorologia (AISAM). Editor in chief of the
Italian Journal of Agrometeorology.
She is member of the Executive Committee of INSAM - International Society for Agricultural Meteorology.
Research interests:
She is involved in studies on crops phenology, different scales
relations, modellization. Experimental results are used together
with seasonal meteorological forecasts to predict wheat yield.
Agrometeorological modelling of Crops Growth and Irrigation
Scheduling, Soil-Water-Atmosphere relations.
Studies on evapotranspiration from crops and on evaporation from
bare soil, their modellization. Precision agricolture.
Monitoring and modelling of rainfall, runoff and erosion at different time and space scales, of movement of chemicals and nutrients in both surface and ground water, at lysimeter, field and watershed scale.
