I am a PhD student in Future Earth, Climate Change and Societal Challenges at the University of Bologna and the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC). I use machine learning to understand ocean processes at different time/space scales.
Experience
- Aug-Dec 2025: Visiting student at Coastal Biogeochemistry Dynamics Lab @ University of Connecticut (Groton, đşđ¸)
- Apr-Jun 2023: Visiting student at Phytooptics Lab @ Alfred-Wegener Institute (Bremerhaven, đŠđŞ)
Education
- 2021-2023: Master degree in Physics of the Earth System (University of Bologna, Thesis available here)
- 2017-2020: Bachelor degree in Physics (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Publications
Benassi, F., Mentaschi, L., Causio, S., Holmberg, D., Federico, I., Pinardi, N. (2026). Decadal wave reconstruction in the Mediterranean Sea with graph neural networks. Submitted to Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems. Preprint available soon.
Benassi, F., Siedlecki, S. A., Pinardi, N., Mentaschi, L., Cessi, P., Bianconcini, S., & Federico, I. (2026). A satellite-based estimate of the contribution of filamentary structures to lateral carbon transport in the Pacific and Atlantic Upwelling systems. In review for Geophysical Research Letters. Preprint available.
Talks
| 2026 | Predicting wave parameters on unstructured grids using a Graph Neural Network | OSM 2026 | đ´ó §ó ˘ó łó Łó ´ó ż |
| 2025 | A satellite-based estimate of the contribution of filamentary structures to lateral carbon transport in the Pacific and Atlantic Upwelling systems | AGU 2025 | đşđ¸ |
Teaching
| 2025 | Lecturer for COMPASS-Philippines spring school | đľđ |
| 2023 | Python crash course for Science of Climate students | đŽđš |