Lorenzo Scarpellini is a National PhD student at the EI Lab and IUSS Pavia. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2021 and 2023 respectively. He is interested in climate change adaptation and disaster prevention.

Lorenzo’s research will address the role of financial risk hedging tools, parametric insurance in particular, in climate change adaptation and disaster risk management. The research will address the inclusion of climate scenarios in the evaluation and pricing of insurance schemes and the use of insurance as a tool to shift the management of specific systems towards higher sustainability and lower risk.