Maria Gabriella Villani received her Laurea in Physics in 1998 at Padua University (Italy), Master Degree in Geography–Meteorology, 2002, at Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana (USA), and her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, 2006, at Carlo Bo University, Urbino (Italy). She worked as research assistant at the National Research Council, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, and, as a Postdoc, at the Joint Research Centre, Institute of Sustainability, in the Climate Change Unit.

In 2010, she joined ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Development.

Since April 2016, she has been working as researcher in air pollution field, now in the laboratory SSTP-CLIMAR-AOC.

Among her interests:

• Urban microscale studies with the application of the air quality MicroSwift MicroSpray (MSS & PMSS- the parallel version-) modelling chain systems.
• Support for an interface of the JRC DeltaTool and the validation chain of MINNI atmospheric modelling system (Minni: “Modello Integrato Nazionale a supporto della Negoziazione Internazionale sui temi dell’inquinamento atmosferico”).
• Support for data extraction and data management of the EEA EIONET e-reporting air quality data (reporting under air quality Directives 2004/107/EC and 2008/50/EC).