Giulia Bossi is an engineer with a PhD in soil mechanics. She has authored more than 30 international publications on natural hazard assessment and risk management, mainly as first author. She works at CNR in the Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection where she carries out her research activity but also works as consultant for National and local authorities regarding the management of landslide related risks in their territories. Besides, she trains volunteers and emergency operators for Civil Protections in Italy and abroad, in the framework of European projects.
She is a board member of the Italian section of International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment and she is involved in the #100Esperte (100 experts) initiative, regarding the dissemination of science through female voices.

I designed a method for evaluating the uncertainty linked with soil distributions. It supports the reliability assessment for defence structures and landslides stability, thus an overall safety improvement for the exposed populations. The dissertation in which I presented the method was awarded as best PhD thesis by the Italian branch of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment

Twenty years after I met my husband we are still together, with two children, and still as happy as we were as teenagers