Antonio Navarra

Prof. Antonio Navarra graduated in Physics at the University of Bologna in 1980. He then moved to Princeton University to get a PhD at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory where he specialized in numerical simulations and predictions of the climate system. He is also President of the Foundation “Centro Euromediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici” (CMCC), a multidisciplinary research center whose mission is to investigate and model the human climate system. After coming back to Italy it pioneered the research in global modeling of the atmosphere and the ocean, looking in particular to the climate variability of the tropical areas. He has an extensive experience in climate numerical experiments and on numerical methods as a tool of scientific investigation and discovery. He has also held appointments as Affiliate Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR, Boulder) and in the advisory board of the Asia-Pacific Climate Center in South Korea. He is or has been on the board of several international bodies, as the ECMWF Council, the EU Joint Programming Initiative “Climate”, and the UN Adaptation Fund. Go to the Curriculum vitae