Personal Details
Date of birth: 22 February 1956 , Bologna
Nationality: Italian
Education
1976-1980: Laurea in Physics, Bologna University , 110/110 cum laude.
1981-1983: Master in Applied Physics, Harvard University , Cambridge , U.S.A.
1983-1985: Ph.D. in Applied Physics (Physical Oceanography), Harvard University , Cambridge , U.S.A.
Italian Professional Experiences
2018-2022 Coordinator of the University of Bologna PhD program “Future Earth, Climate Change and societal Challenges”
2016-2021 Coordinator of University of Bologna PhD program in “Geophysics”
2018-today Full Professor of Physical Oceanography at the University of Bologna, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
1999- 2018 Associate Professor of Physical Oceanography at the University of Bologna, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
2015-today Member of the Strategic Board of the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
2007-present Associate researcher (scientific affiliation) at Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)
2004-2013 Director of the National Group of Operational Oceanography, INGV
2001-2017 Associate researcher (scientific affiliation) at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
2000-2003 Associate researcher (scientific affiliation) at Istituto Geologia Marina-CNR, Bologna
1994-1998 Lecturer of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at the University of Bologna, Italy.
1986-1999 Research scientist at the Centro Nazionale Ricerche (CNR), Bologna.
US Professional Experiences
2012-2019: Visiting scientist at the University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, Colorado
2002-2012: Visiting scientist at the North West Research Associates, Colorado Research Associates (CoRA), Boulder, Colorado
1992,1993,1994,1997,1998,1999,2001 Visiting scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado
1992-1994 Visiting scientist at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA (part-time, 6 months in a year).
1986-1988 Post-Doctoral Fellow in Physical Oceanography, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, U.S.A. (6 months in a year)
National and international advisory committees
2021-2024 Member dell’Assemblea della Commissione Nazionale Italiana per l’UNESCO
2020 Member of the European Academy of Sciences
2019- 2023 Vice-Chair, World Meteorological Organization Commission for Observation, Infrastructure and Information Systems (Infrastructure Commission)
2019 Member of the evaluation Committee for the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemunde, DE
2019 International Member of the Gulf Of Mexico Research Initiative (GOMRI) Synthesis Workshop
2017-present Member of the Mercator Ocean International Management Board
2012-2019 Co-president of the Joint Committee for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (Joint WMO and IOC-Unesco Committee)
2008-2012 Member of the European Research Council, Committee for Earth Sciences
2006-2009 Member of the Space Advisory Group, European FP7 Space Programme
2007-2009 Member of the European Environmental Agency Scientific Steering Committee
2006-2009 Member of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Bologna University
2000-2007 Chair of EGU session: Mediterranean Sea: a laboratory for interdisciplinary studies and climate research
2006-2009 Member of the FP7 Space Advisory Group of the European Commission for the 7th Framework Programme
2006-2009 Member of the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL) Science Advisory Board.
2005-2008 Chairperson of the Mediterranean Operational Oceanography Network Member Assembly
2005-2008 Member of the Ruder Boskovic Institute (Croatia) Science Advisory Board
2004-2007 Italian Representative at the thirty-seventh Session of the IOC Executive Council
2000-2005 Member of the Coastal Ocean Observations Panel (COOP), Group under the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission - UNESCO.
1997-2001Member of the GLOBEC International Scientific Steering Committee Member (Dr. R.Harris, chair)
1999-2006 Member of the European Space Agency's Earth Science Advisory Committee (ESAC).
2002-2006 External personality of the administrative board of MERCATOR, France.
Awards
2007: European Geophysical Union (EGU) Fridtjof Nansen [http://www.pedagogtreff.com/gdok/obus/Nansen/naindex.htm] Medal for Oceanography
2008: UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Roger Revelle Medal
2015: Italian Republic Honors “Commendatore Ordine al merito della Repubblica italiana”- for her scientific contribution in strategic fields for the sustainable development such as oceanography and climatology
2017: Laurea Honoris Causa from the University of Liege, Belgium.
(https://events.uliege.be/dhcdr/docteurs-honoris-causa-2017/ )
Editorial activities
1999-2006: Topic Editor of Annales Geophysicae, EGU Journal, Ocean section.
2005-2017: Topic Editor of Ocean Sciences, EGU Journal
2007-2017: Associate editor of Journal of Operational Oceanography
2011-2017: Member of the Editorial Board of The Sea, Journal of Marine Research, Yale University
2012-2017: Topic Editor of Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, EGU Journal
2017-2023: Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
