Enrica De Cian

Enrica is professor in environmental economics at the Department of Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy), research scientist at Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), and at RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment. She is member of the Centre's Scientific Committee "THE NEW INSTITUTE: Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE)", where she also co-lead the research cluster on energy humanities. She coordinates the PhD program in Science and Management of Climate Change at Ca' Foscari University since 2018 (as deputy coordinator and as coordinator since 2020 ).

She has been recipient of an ERC Starting Grant grantee with the project ENERGYA – Energy use for Adaptation (2018-2023). Before she was researcher at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), and she collaborates with several research organizations in Europe (CEPS, ZEW) and in the U.S. (Joint Program at MIT, Boston University). Her research focuses on the global impacts of climate change on the economy and the society, and on human adaptation to impacts, specifically to extreme heat. She works with integrated assessment models as well as with econometric and statistical approaches.

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