Sandra Ricart is junior assistant professor at the Environmental Intelligence for Global Change Lab (EI Lab), at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering at the Politecnico di Milano. As human-environment geographer, she was granted with a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action post-doctoral research fellowship to develop the MODFABE project at the EI Lab from 2020 to 2022. She received her bachelor’s degree in Geography and master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Girona, Spain, and a Ph.D. in Experimental Sciences and Sustainability at the same institution. She is lecturer at the Masters in planning and management of natural risks (since 2018), the Masters in Sustainable management and water technologies (since 2022), and the Masters in environmental and sustainable development law (since 2022), offered by the University of Alicante. She was visiting scholar at Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, Università degli Studi di Milano, Universidad de Alicante, and Wageningen University & Research.
Main research interests include climate change perceived impacts and adaptative capacity through stakeholder analysis and behaviour modelling, and water management and governance in socio-ecological systems from social-learning and risk analysis. Sandra co-authored more than 35 publications indexed in WoS and Scopus journals, attended more than 60 international and national conferences, and participated in several international and national research projects, while collaborating with universities and research centres from Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. She received habilitation as Associate Professor (2021) and Assistant Professor (2018) credentials by the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain (ANECA) and the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU). In 2022 she received the I3 Program Certificate of Outstanding Research Trajectory, one of the most prestigious tenure-track research programs, by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.