Matteo COLUCCI

Position
PhD Student
Dottorato
SCIENZA E GESTIONE DEI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI
40° Ciclo - Immatricolati nel 2024
Area tematica
Climate security
Supervisore
Jaroslav Mysiak
E-mail
matteo.colucci@unive.it
970183@stud.unive.it
Website
www.unive.it/people/matteo.colucci (personal record)
Office
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dais

Matteo Colucci

 

Pavia, 8 July 1996

Researcher on climate and security risk, PhD candidate

 

Contact

Cannaregio 96/i, 30121, Venice

matteo.colucci@cmcc.it

+393319375

orcid.org/0009-0008-7869-0079

 

Education

 

PhD candidate in Science and Management of Climate Change

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, CMCC@Ca’ Foscari

Venice, September 2024 (ongoing)

Research proposal: Climate-conflict nexus in a deglobalizing world, supervised by Professor Jaroslav Mysiak
 

Master of Research in Science and Management of Climate Change

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Challenge School,

Venice, September 2022 – September 2023

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)’s scholarship winner

 

Master’s degree in Environmental and Food Economics

Environmental and Energy Economics Curriculum, 108 / 110

University of Milan

Milan, September 2018 – March 2021

Thesis: State Governance of Strategic Resources: the Israeli Water System since 1917, supervised by Professor Michele D’Alessandro

Erasmus+ Programme

University of Helsinki

Helsinki, January 2020 - March 2020

Joining Professor S. Juhola’s Urban Environmental Policy Research Group and offering academic support for the Finnish government’s masterplan for Climate Adaptation of major urban centres

 

Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations

110 cum laude / 110

University of Pavia

Pavia, September 2015 - July 2018

Thesis: Economic Effects of Climate Change in the XXI Century: Unequal Impacts in Italy and the World, supervised by Professor Enrica Chiappero Martinetti

Erasmus+ Programme

Trinity College Dublin

Dublin, September 2016 - May 2017

 

Maturità Scientifica

Liceo Scientifico Niccolò Copernico di Pavia

Pavia, July 2015

 

Publications

 

Staccione, A., Colucci, M., Mysiak, J. (2025). Review of ecosystem services, green infrastructure and assessment methods, D6.2, EU Life Climax Po project

Ceolotto, S., Colucci, M., Taddeo, S., Mysiak, J. (2024). Role and potential of insurance in accelerating climate adaptation in Europe, D1.1 Review report, EU PIISA project
 

Conferences

 

Climate Impacts in a Changing World 2026

Uppsala, 9-11 March 2026

European designs for climate-risk insurance systems, oral presentation

 

IAERE Annual Conference 2025

Rome, 20-21 February 2025

Assessing and mapping European national climate-risk insurance systems, oral presentation

 

NATURANCE Webstival Advancing Finance Innovations for NbS

Online, 11-13 February 2025

Assessing and … systems, oral presentation

 

MedCLIVAR-SISC Conference 2024

Lecce, 24-27 September 2024

Creating Enabling Conditions for Transformative Climate Action: The Role of Climate Services, oral presentation

 

Awards

 

Fully funded 4-year public scholarship

PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, CMCC@Ca’ Foscari, 2024-2028

 

Scholarship

Master of Research in Science and Management of Climate Change

Ca’ Foscari Challenge School, PwC, 2022-2023

 

Finalist

Youth in Action for Sustainable Development Goals 2021, Lavazza’s Challenge, Project Legado

 

Memberships

 

IAERE

Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2025

 

SISC

Italian Society for Climate Science, 2024

 

Professional experience

 

Researcher

Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategies (RAAS) division

Venice, October 2023 (ongoing)

EU climate adaptation research projects (PIISA, Life CLIMAX PO, ARCADIA)

 

Intern

PwC Italy, ESG Team

Milan and Padua, June 2023 – August 2023

LCIA, EU Environmental Footprints methods

 

Research Assistant

REF Ricerche

Milan, April 2022 – July 2022

Consultancy on EU Green Taxonomy for Integrated Water Systems

 

Project intern

Protea S.r.l.

Turin (remote), November 2021 – April 2022

Economic and emission modelling of ecological services

 

Agricultural operator

Ca' degli orsi

Rovescala (PV), September 2021

Organic DOP wine production

 

European Solidarity Corps, LIFE ESC 360

Biodiversity Carabiners Corps

Follonica (GR), May 2021- July 2021

Monitoring forest biodiversity of Italian Natura 2000 areas

 

Intern

FAST-Federazione delle Associazioni Scientifiche e Tecniche

Milan, October 2019 – December 2019

Reporting for 'H2IT - Italian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association

 

Skills

 

Informatics skills

R, QGIS, MATLAB, Stata, GAMS, LaTeX, MS36

 

Languages

Italian, mother tongue

English, advanced, C1 level (IELTS band 8, January 2026)

Spanish, intermediate

French, intermediate

Arabic, beginner
 

Theatre

ARCUS Milano A.P.S., Milan, 2021-2022

Centro Teatrale di Ricerca, Venice, 2022 - 2024

Teatro a l’Avogaria, Venice, 2023 – 2025

Assistant director

Diction, phonetics, and expressive reading

 

Other

Film photography, development and printing

European Driving Licence B

HACCP certification

 

Reference

Dr. Jaroslav Mysiak

PhD supervisor

Director of the RAAS division at CMCC, external teacher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

jaroslav.mysiak@cmcc.it