climate change jointly sponsored research centre: sant’anna school announces recruitment campaign for academics in mathematics, weather and climate prediction areas. climate physics professor gives a seminar on july 5 at normale
Aimed at delivering solution-oriented activities to facilitate climate research, the “Earth-System and Sustainable Development Initiative” collaboration effort by Scuola Normale Superiore, Sant’Anna School and Scuola IUSS Pavia would provide coordination for scientists to respond to the most pressing environmental challenges. The engagement of natural sciences, social sciences and mathematics will provide a multidisciplinary approach to the impacts of climate variability and change on major social and economic sectors including food security, energy and transport, environment, health and water resources.
Scuola Normale Superiore, Sant’Anna School and Scuola IUSS Pavia organize seminars, workshops and conferences to set the research agenda and to attract new talents from around the world to further their position of excellence. On July 5-6, 2018, at Scuola Normale Superiore (3.30 pm - Sala Azzurra), Climate Physics Professor Tim Palmer of Oxford University Royal Society Research, with academics, experts and students will discuss strategies and projects to address biodiversity, ecosystems, human well-being and sustainable development issues.
The main objectives of Scuola Normale Superiore, Sant’Anna School and Scuola IUSS Pavia’s joint research centre on climate change are to determine the predictability of climate and to determine the effect of human activities on climate. Sant’Anna School has therefore begun a recruitment campaign to hire Professor Roberto Buizza as part of the Scuola Normale Superiore, Sant’Anna School and Scuola IUSS Pavia’s strategy to build academic capacity and develop new educational programmes.
Roberto Buizza has spent the last 27 years at the “European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts” (ECMWF, in Reading – UK), producing and disseminating numerical weather predictions to its Member States. Roberto Buizza, Full Professor in Physics and Geophysics, a data scientist and developer of the ECMWF medium-range/monthly ensemble, was responsible for research and development of the ECMWF coupled ocean-land-atmosphere-cryosphere ensembles, and coordinator of the European project ERA-CLIM2. He is author of 200+ publications, of which 100+ in peer-reviewed publications.
The new Climate Change Research Centre in Pisa and Pavia will be established under the joint sponsorship of Scuola Normale Superiore, Sant’Anna School and Scuola IUSS Pavia. The Climate Change Research Centre scientists will monitor, simulate and project global climate and provide information for use in governance, decision-making and in support of a wide range of end-user applications.
Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, meteorologist, the first director of the “Grantham Institute for Climate Change” founded in 2007 at Imperial College London, was the key speaker of the “Earth-System and Sustainable Development Initiative” first event in Pisa in May 2018. Professor Hoskins gave his seminar on ‘The Challenge of Climate Change’, presenting his vision for a sustainable, resilient, and zero-carbon society. The third and final event will be held in October this year at IUSS Pavia, organizing large-scale observational and modelling projects and developing future plans summary documents, as well as a range of future workshops and publications.
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