Dr. Gianmaria Sannino is a climate scientist with a Ph.D. in Marine Science and Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II. Since 2022, he has been the Director of the ENEA Division for "Models, Observations, and Scenarios for Climate Change and Air Quality." From 2015 to 2022, he led the ENEA Climate Modeling and Impacts Laboratory, focusing on climate science and environmental impacts.

He has coordinated national and international projects on climate change and marine energy production. His expertise is regularly called upon for research evaluations by organizations such as the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR), the French National Research Agency (ANR), the Dutch Research Council (NWO), and the European Commission.

Since 2010, he has been a member of the Scientific Committee for Marine Renewable Energy within the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA). In 2017, he began representing Italy in the Strategic Energy Technology Plan's Working Group on Ocean Energy, becoming the European Coordinator in 2021. Dr. Sannino is also a member of the Technical Scientific Committee for the BIG-Blue Italian Growth Cluster (since 2018), represents ENEA within the European Global Ocean Observing System (EuroGOOS), and participates in the Italian Oceanographic Commission (COI). Additionally, he is a Scientific Committee member for both the European Climate Research Alliance (ECRA) and the Mediterranean Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (Med-CORDEX). From 2015 to 2022, he coordinated the ECRA program “Sea Level and Climate Change.”