Roberta Benincasa

Education:

• PhD in Physical Oceanography (2023 - ongoing)
• Master's Degree in Physics of the Earth System (2020 - 2023) at the University of Bologna. Final grade: 110 cum laude. Final thesis titled "Ocean climate predictability study in the Mediterranean Sea" and supervised by Prof Nadia Pinardi, Dr. Giovanni Liguori and Prof. Hans von Storch.
• Bachelor's Degree in Physics (2017 - 2020) at the University of Trieste. Final grade: 110 cum laude. Final thesis titled "Analysis of climate trends of temperature and precipitation in the European region" and supervised by Dr Filippo Giorgi and Prof Dario Giaiotti.

Working experiences:

• Scholarship for postgraduate research activity (August 2023 - October 2023) at the Department of Physics of the University of Bologna.
  

Conferences:

• Oral presentation titled Internal and forced ocean variability in the Mediterranean Sea at the 13th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean at the Helmholtz-entrum Hereon, Hamburg, Germany (June 2023)
• Poster presentation titled Internal and forced ocean variability in the Mediterranean Sea at the workshop Physics of Wave Turbulence and Beyond at the Les Houches School of Physics, Les Houches, France (September 2024)
• Oral presentation titled NonEquilibrium Thermodynamics and Climate Predictabilty: Investigating Entropy Production and Frenesy at the EGU General Assembly 2025 in Vienna, Austria (April - May 2025)

Publications:

• Benincasa, R., Liguori, G., Pinardi, N., and von Storch, H.: Internal and forced ocean variability in the Mediterranean Sea, Ocean Sci., 20, 1003–1012, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-1003-2024, 2024.