About
Nicoletta Leonardi's work focuses on coastal and estuarine dynamics, geomorphology, sediment transport, and hydro-morphodynamic computer modelling, with a strong focus on climate-driven coastal change, coastal resilience and Nature Based Solutions. She has a civil engineering background and is an EPSRC Fellow at the University of Liverpool, leading the project "ENARM: Engineering with Nature – combining Artificial Intelligence, Remote Sensing and Computer Models for the optimum design of coastal protection schemes (2021–2027)". This project develops decision-support tools for coastal adaptation, integrating AI, numerical modelling and remote sensing to inform environmentally sustainable coastal protection strategies.
Professor Leonardi is the institutional lead for two HORIZON-MISS-2025 funded projects on "co-creating regenerative and Resilient coastal futures" and "Soil Salinization, Soil Salinization Monitoring and Prediction, Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies, FAIR Data, Earth Observation and Open Tools" . She has been Principal Investigator on a Royal Geographical Society-funded project, "Building coastal resilience one sediment grain at a time, which combined field measurements and community engagement to evaluate nature-based solutions for coastal protection". She was Co-Investigator on a MarRI-UK project applying artificial intelligence, satellite data and numerical modelling for the autonomous detection of subtidal bathymetric change, and on a United States Geological Survey project with Boston University examining the impacts of hurricanes on coastal wetlands. She was also Co-Investigator on the NERC-funded BlueCoast project. Before joining the University of Liverpool, she completed her PhD at Boston University (USA).
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