Elisa's main interests are inter- and cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental challenges. She has more than 20 years of experience in environmental modelling and statistics. She has been leading and participating in many national and international projects and industry financed projects in aquaculture and marine sciences. Currently Elisa is the coordinator of the H2020-BG-08-2019 ASTRAL: All Atlantic Ocean Sustainable, ProfiTable and Resilient AquacuLture and the Co-leader of the Nordic Centre of Excellence SUREAQUA (Fender vy NordForsk).
Recent projects include: holistic assessment of aquaculture sustainability, development of supporting tools for marine spatial planning (AquaAccept, coordinator, Research Council of Norway), Modelling environmental and socio-economic effects of climate changes and man-made pollution on aquaculture (CliCAS, coordinator, RFF), Multivariate assessment and spatial modelling in INFRAIA- JERICO-NEXT, task leading on data management as well as engaging with stakeholders in H2020-BG-04 i-FishIENCi (Aquaculture 4.0), aquaculture footprint analysis in ERA-Net COFASP ECOAST. I was a member of the Rogaland County reference group (Norway) for the Aquaculture Regional Plan.