Sara Minoli

Sara Minoli is a senior consultant at Climate Focus. She conducts research and advisory projects on sustainable land use, climate-friendly agricultural practices and adaptation strategies to climate change.

Sara has experience on quantitative approaches, such as process-based modeling and big data analysis. Before joining Climate Focus, she worked as a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany and at the University of Milan in Italy.

Sara applied and developed large-scale crop models to simulate arable crops and fruit orchards. She also developed a model to simulate farmers’ agronomic decision-making under climate change and assessed trajectories of adaptation under climate change scenarios. She has been involved in the development of multi-disciplinary modeling frameworks to simulate the feedback between climate, agriculture, forest and pollinator insects. She also has experience in conducting on-field experimental trials to measure ammonia (NH₃) and nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions from agricultural soils and compare different methodologies. Sara has authored several scientific publications on these topics.

In her free time, Sara loves hiking, cycling, kayaking and many other outdoor activities. She has a passion for gardening and enjoys visiting cities and art expositions.

Sara holds a PhD in Agricultural Sciences from Humboldt University, where she is a member of the IRI-THESys interdisciplinary graduate program. She also holds a Master’s in Crop Sciences and a Bachelor’s in Environmental Agro-technology (University of Milan).