Research areas:

  • Numerical Weather Prediction and Earth System Science
  • Land-Atmosphere Interaction and Predictability
  • Parameterisations and Data Assimilation
  • Climate-change and Low-frequency Variability

Professional pathway:

  • Senior scientist (current position), Model Division/Physics, ECMWF, UK, since 2009.
  • Scientist, Model Division/Physics, ECMWF, UK, 2006-2009.
  • Visiting scientist at the Meteorological Service of Canada, RPN, Canada, 2004-2005.
  • ALATNET young researcher at CNRM, GMAP, France, 2000-2003.
  • Weather forecasting and land modelling at the ARPA-Piedmont, Italy, 1999-2002.

Academic pathway:

  • Habilitation in Meteorology (UPS, Toulouse-III), in 2012.
  • PhD in Meteorology (UPS, Toulouse-III and UNIGE, Genoa) in 2003.
  • Physics degree ("Laurea", UNITO, University of Torino, Italy) in 1999.
  • Visiting student (BSc/MSc, University of Reading, Met. Department, UK) in 1997.
  • Computer science ("Diploma",  Peano Institute, Torino, Italy), in 1994.

Commitees & Projects:

  • EUMETSAT Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility (LSA-SAF), steering group.
  • EUMETNET/SRNWP 2010-2015 Land Expert Team: Short-Range Numerical Weather Prediction.
  • WMO/GCW 2013-2015 World Meteorological Organization (), Global Chryosphere Watch (), steering group.
  • GLASS/GEWEX 2010-2015 Global Land Atmosphere System Study panel's member.
  • EARTH2OBSERVE 2014-2017: Global Earth Observation for Integrated Water Resource Assessment
  • IMAGINES 2013-2015: Global Biosphere Monitoring via multi-sensor and multi-scale biophysical land variables exploiting Sentinel sensor data
  • GEOLAND I&II 2006-2012: Global Operational land surface modelling and data assimilation for vegetation (LAI) and carbon dioxide exchange (NEE)

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E-mail: pad at ecmwf dot int

Last update: 2015