Simona Denaro is an environmental engineer and joined RED in 2020. Between 2017 and 2020 she worked as a postdoc at UNC Chapel Hill in the Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems. Her past work revolves around the integrated use of environmental engineering and economics to explore diversified strategies to characterize and manage systems vulnerability to risk in order to enable progress and resilient innovation.

Simona holds an M.Sc degree in environmental engineering and a Ph.D. in information technology from Politecnico di Milano.