Dr Gianmaria Sannino is Head of the Climate Modelling Laboratory and Impacts of ENEA (Italy) since 2015. He received the M.Sc. degree in Physical Oceanography from the University Parthenope of Naples, and a Ph.D. in Marine Science from the University Federico II of Naples. His research activities are mainly focused on modelling the general circulation of the Mediterranean Sea, strait dynamics - including hydraulics and internal waves - and climate change at regional scale. A complementary line of research is on the exploitation of ocean energy potential. He is currently Chair of the IWG ‘Ocean Energy’ for the EU SET-Plan, Co-Chair of the Ocean Energy sector for the Technological Cluster ‘Blue Italian Growth’, and member of the Scientific Committee of the Joint-Program Ocean Energy of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA), Joint-Program Sea Level and Coastal Impacts of the European Climate Research Alliance (ECRA), and MedCordex.