Cristina Casareale is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM) in Ancona (Italy), where she conducts research on citizen’s and public administration’s perception, mitigation, and adaptation to climate change. In 2019, she earned a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Protection at the UNIVPM, with a dissertation focusing on the human factor in maritime emergencies. During her PhD, she collaborated with the Hue University (Vietnam), University of Delaware (USA), and Northwestern University (USA). Her previous research focused on qualitative and quantitative analyses of communication and decision making in emergencies.