Samantha Melani received her Master's Degree in Physics from the University of Bologna (Italy) in 1999, with a thesis on radiative transfer in cloudy atmospheres and numerical modeling for satellite data interpretation. She subsequently obtained a Ph.D. in Physical Modeling for Environmental Protection from the University of Bologna. From 1999 to 2002, she worked at the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAO) in Bologna. In 2004, she joined the Institute of Biometeorology (CNR-IBIMET) in Florence as a researcher. Since June 2019, she has been affiliated with CNR-IBE, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, partially assigned to Consorzio LaMMA, and became Senior Researcher in January, 2023. Her current research interests lie in atmospheric sciences, with particular focuses on remote sensing of cloud systems using satellite and radar observations, cloud physics studies of severe storms, atmospheric modeling, and data assimilation, as well as validation techniques for heterogeneous data. Since 2018, she has also been teaching Atmospheric Physics in the Master’s program in Physical and Astrophysical Sciences at the University of Florence.