Barbara

Barbara is associate professor in Glaciology and Paleoclimate at the University Milano-Bicocca. She gained a Ph.D. in Polar Sciences (2003) at the University of Siena-Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I (co-agreement Italy/France). She took active part in different projects related to ice core science. Among these, the Beyond-EPICA Oldest Ice project, the EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) project, the EU EPICA-MIS (Enhanced Palaeoreconstruction and Integrated Climate Analysis through Marine and Ice core Studies) project, the TALos Dome IcE core (TALDICE) project.
Her research mainly focus on aeolian mineral dust and volcanic particles from different polar and nonpolar ice cores as well as sediment samples from dust deflation areas worldwide. She won the “Prince of Asturias” Award (Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research) and the “Prix André Prud’Homme” (Société Météorologique Française with Météo-France). She is also a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2013.