OCean, Climate, Atmosphere @ Milan

Students and post-docs with a background in physics / engineering / applied math, skill in programming, and an interest in climate dynamics are encouraged to contact claudia.pasquero_at_unimib.it  to inquire for possible PhD and post-doc positions in our group.

 NEWS

• 20/5/2025: Ago is interviewed for his ERC Starting Grant proposal, CLIC-Bold. Fingers crossed, but in any case Congratulations to Ago for having made it to the last step!!!

• 18/5/2025: Claudia speaks at Salone del Libro in the Bosco degli Scrittori, with Guido Saracco on Climate change.

• 13/5/2025: an article "How can we predict extreme winter weather?" explains the work that Mostafa did, for kids, on the Environmental Science Journal for Teens.

• 22/4/2025:  Our paper "Altitudinal dependence of projected changes in occurrence of extreme events in the Great Alpine Region" has been recognized as a top viewed article in the International Journal of Climatology, Wiley.

• 21/2/2025: Congratulations to Ago, whose ERC CLIC-Bold proposal passed step 1 evaluation. 

• 16/4/2025: Alessandro and Alice oon stage for the project "RicercAttori in scena".

• 19/2/2025: Iman is going for a month long visit at the Univ of Cologne, to work with Claudia Acquistapace for the MAXM project.

• 3/2/2025: welcome to Anais from ENS, doing a stage for the next 5 months, working on the LocCLIMA project.

• 11/01/2025: Claudia is interviewed on La Repubblica on the big snowfall of 1985. 

• 28/11/2024: Planetaria won two prizes at the Best Event Awards: Silver in the category Cultural Events, and Bronze for the use of AI.

• 21/11/2024: Claudia is interviewed at TG RSI, RadioTelevisione Svizzera Italiana.

• 15/11/2024: Claudia speaks at Progetto EduS4EL, UniMiB.

• 9/11/2024: Claudia speaks at Il clima: e domani? PoliTO.

• 1/11/2024: Lorenzo is leaving to spend a few months in Delft, in the group of Paco Lopez-Dekker.

• 1/11/2024: Fabien is starting his new position at IRD in Toulouse. It has been great to have Fab in our group. Good luck for the future!

• 23/10/2024: Lisa is back after six months in Berlin working with Stephan Pfahl. Welcome back!

• 17-18/10/2024: Claudia at ESA, Netherland, Harmony MAG meeting

• 11/10/2023: ClimALP (Matteo) @ CAI Ovada

• 8/10/2024: ClimALP (Ago) @ CAI Milano

•  23/9/2024: Welcome to Hossein, who finally got to Milan for his postdoc position on the ICREN project.

• 20/9/2024: Andrea, Lorenzo, Claudia at Destinazione Terra 2100.

• 15-20/9/2024: Iman, Alice, Matteo and Ago at the IDEA-S4S summer school.

• 13/9/2024: Group day in Valle Cervo!

• 2-6/9/2024: Ago and Matteo at the European Meteorological Society annual meeting in Barcelona.

• 1/9/2024: Workshop on mindful climate communication, co-organized by Ago in Barcelona.

• 10-25/08/2024: Lorenzo is at the VITAL Summer School and Campaign.

• 19/06/2024: the podcast Per Terra: Scoprire l'oceano, by Will Media, is out.

• 7-8-9/06/2024: Lorenzo, Andrea D, e Claudia, con l'aiuto di Ago, sono al Planetaria festival. 

• 7/06/2024: Claudia interviewed a Caterpillar, Radio2, for World Oceans Day.

• 05/06/2024: Claudia at the Rai3 special on Earth Day.

• 04/06/2024: The book "Sta arrivando la fine del mondo?" is out.

• 03/06/2024: Alice G. starts her new research contract with us. 

• 30-31/05/2024: Matteo and Lorenzo in Val Ventina with high school students for CLIMALPS.

• 21/05/2024: "Morning - Il Post" podcast on heavy rainfall in Milan.

• 17/05/2024: Claudia interviewed on Il Giorno on heavy rainfalls.

• 15/05/2024: Iman starts his research contract with us, for the MAXM project that Matteo and Ago started.

• 12/05/2024: Claudia is interviewed at Kilimangiaro, Rai3.

• 01/05/2024: Lisa goes to Berlin to work with Prof. Stephan Pfhal for 6 months.

• 18/04/2024: Claudia interviewed on heavy rainfall in Dubai on Fanpage.

• 08/04/2024: Ago has been awarded the European Meteorological Society YSCA award, supporting him to attend the EMS Annual Meeting in Barcelona. Congrats!

• 05/04/2024: Alice G. has been awarded the MetoXchange Outstaning Oral Presentation Award. Congratulations!

• 01/02/2024: Andrea D. goes to work with Prof. Caroline Muller at ISTA (Vienna) for 6 months.

• 07/12/2023: Claudia teaches at Unitre Valsangone.

• 01/12/2023: Claudia speaks at Mezzopieno event in Torino.

• 28/11/2023: Alice P. is interviewed on Bnews.

• 13/11-17/11/2023: Fab is lecturer at the IRD Summer School in South Africa on CROCO model.

• 20/11/2023: Matteo and Ago have been awarded the Bicocca Starting Grant for their MAXM project on machine learning applied to precipitations. Congrats!

• 13/11/2023: Claudia is visiting IST Austria.

• 1/11/2023: Welcome to Andrea and Lorenzo, PhD students in our group!

• 30/10-4/11/2023: "High resolution atmospheric models for regional applications" school at Kigali, Rwanda, co-organized by Ago and Fabien.

• 23-27/10/2023: Ago is keynote speaker at the World Climate Research Program Open Science Conference in Rwanda.

• 18/10/2023: Group day at Bard.

• 25-29/09/2023: Ago, Fab, Claudia at the "Atmosphere-ocean coupling at (sub)mesoscale" at the Lorentz Center, Leiden, NL. 

• 18/09/2023: Claudia a Rai3 Geo parla di uragani. 

• 28/08/2023: Claudia intervistata sui temporali intensi,  su Il Giorno, Il Resto del Carlino, La Nazione

• 19/08/2023: Alice G. intervistata su Il Giorno.

• 25/07/2023: Articolo "L'eccezione della tempesta perfetta", su Il Giorno, Il Resto del Carlino, la Nazione

• 16/06/2023: Matteo runs fun experiments and Claudia speaks at Festival Destinazione Terra 2100.

• 27/05/2023: Claudia speaks at Festival un grado e mezzo.

• 15/05/2023: Claudia speaks at Plancks 2023. The recording is available here.

• 12/05/2023: congratulations to Alice, PhD!

• 10/05/2023: Matteo and Ago start their lectures with schools in mountain retreats.

• 07/03/2023: Claudia is interviewed on droughts and oceans on Radio Popolare.

• 14/02/2023: Climate Change Communication workshop. Organised by Alice and Ago. Check it out!

• 03/02/2023: Claudia speaks about Extreme Events at a local bookstore.

• January 2023: Claudia meets several classes in secondary schools for the Tuttestorie festival, discussing the book "Come sta la Terra?".

• 30/12/2022: Claudia was selected as one of the 100 women of the year by F magazine.  

• 30/11/2022: Congrats to Andrea who got his master degree and is leaving to go to Wien to work with Caroline Muller! Well done, Andrea!

• 14/11/2022: Claudia participates at TEDxMilano countdown event at Teatro Franco Parenti

• 4/11/2022: Claudia is interviewed on Corriere della Sera on the selection of the Earth Explorer X Harmony mission.

• Corriere KIDS publishes two articles by Ago and Claudia

• 6-8/10/2022 Claudia at the Tuttestorie Festival, Cagliari. Event with Andri Magnason and Nicola Davies. Claudia's participation has been canceled for Covid.

• 18/9/2022 Alice speaks at Ortometraggi Film Festival

• 13/9/2022 Group day at Lago d'Orta, kayaking!

• 11/9/2022 Alice presents her result at the European Meteorological Society

• 20/8/2022 Claudia is interviewed (Corriera della Sera) on heat and drought

• 5/7/2022: ESA Earth Explorer 10 "Harmony" User Consultation Meeting (Claudia presents at minutes 35-55).

• 30/6/2022: Our book "Il clima che cambia" has been nominated for the Piccolo Galileo award. The winner among the three finalists will be announced on Oct 18th in Padua.

• 25/6/2022: Festival "Un grado e mezzo", Torino. Claudia speaks about extreme events.

• 11/6/2022: Claudia speaks at "Connecting Worlds", Cuneo.

• 8/6/2022: Alice is interviewed on RadioFrance about her thesis work (in French, starting on  27th minute) 

• 28/5/2022: Ago is interviewed at ESA Living Planet Symposium and aired on a German radio.

• 18/5/2022: Congrats to Lisa, who received a grant to attend the MedCyclones training school in Athens in June 2022.

• 19/4/2022: Congratulations to Alice, who won the Young Scientist Conference Award to attend the 2022 EMS Annual Meeting in Bonn. 

• 5/4/2022: Andrea is leaving to join Caroline Muller's research group in Austria for 3 months. 

• 27/3/2022: Claudia is interviewed on RAI TG3 on the North Italy dryness we have after the past winter with very low precipitation.

• 12/2/2022: Claudia speaks about the "Come sta la Terra?" book on Rai Radio 1 L'aria che respiri.

• 11/2/2022: Claudia is interviewed on Green & Blue, on the role of women in science.

• 8/2/2022: Claudia is interviewed on La Repubblica on the strong winds in North Italy on 7/2.

• 19/1/2022: The "BELLO MONDO" Spotify podcast, by E. Palazzi and F. Taddia, is out. In the first episode Claudia speaks about "Quando il clima è estremo?" 

• 10/1/2022: Welcome to Lisa, master student at Univ. Marseille. She's going to stay with us for 5 months to work on intensification of tropical cyclones. 

• 1/1/2022: Congratulations to Fabien, who will be a RTDA in our group for the next 3 years.

• 1/12/2021: Welcome to Matteo, who joins our group as a post-doc to work on the EUREC4A-OA project.

• 15/11/2021: Claudia goes to Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, ENS, Paris, as Invited Professor until January 2022.

• 8/11/2021: Fabien leaves for a visit to ENS, Paris and Université de Toulouse.

• 4/11/2021: The book "Come sta la Terra?" by P. Baccalario, F. Taddia con C. Pasquero, published by Il Castoro, is in bookstores.

• 4/11/2021: Claudia is live on Geo, Rai3 (@17:40) and on "Che giorno è?" Rai Radio 1 (@10:30)

• 1/11/2021: Agostino leaves for a month long visit to the Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.

• 26/10/2021: Claudia is interviewed on Rai1 - TG1 about the Mediterranean Cyclone currently present in the Ionian Sea.

• 9/2021: Alice wins the European Meteorological Society "Innovative Presentation Award 2021", with this beautiful video. Congratulations!!!!

• 7/9/2021: Our group day at Sacra di San Michele. See our picture!

• 16/7/2021: John Marshall is visiting us from MIT, giving a seminar on "Arctic Dynamics in a warming climate".

• 2/7/2021: Claudia talks about recent heat wave in Canada ay Radio3 Scienza.

• 23/4/2021: Mostafa & Chiara defended their PhD thesis. Congratulations Doctors!!! This is Alice's poem for them. Mostafa will now leave for a 3 year post-doc position at the Goethe University of Frankfurth, Germany.  Chiara is starting a 2 yr post-doc position at the NERSC in Bergen, Norway.  Congratulations and good luck for your carreer! We'll miss you.

• 17/4/2021: Claudia is on IoDonna magazine in an article about the UNESCO Decennio del mare,

• 22/3/2021: Claudia is one of the 7 Italian UNESCO ambassadors for the "United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development".  See it on some news here, here, here, here and here. This is Claudia's statement on "a safe ocean" (in Italian).

• 15/3/2021: Welcome back to Agostino, who is starting a postdoc in our group, having won the competitive ESA Climate Change Inititative fellowship with the project GLAUCO.

• 27/1/2021: Alice leaves for Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, where she will stay for one year, as part of her PhD in cotutelle between UniMiB and ENS, working with F. D'Andrea.

• Jan 2021: our paper on the North Atlantic Oscillation appeared on Nature Climate Change and received a lot of attention by the media. We have been on RAI TG1, TG5, TG24, Venerdì di Repubblica, and many others! The paper has also been highlighted in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. Well done Mostafa!

• Dec 2020: Claudia has been selected Distinguished Referee for The European Physical Journal 

• 9/12/2020: Claudia is interviewed on TG Leonardo

• 30/11-1/12/2020: Claudia co-presents the Harmony mission at ESA Advisory Committee for Earth Observation.

• 28/11/2020: Claudia speaks at Mat-TO workshop "Ecoscienza Europea " speaking about "Earth radiative balance and greenhouse effect" (minutes 5h41-6h06).

• 23/11/2020: Agostino will come back to work with us starting March 2021, having won a competitive post-doctoral ESA Climate Change Initiative fellowship. Congratulations!!!

• 8/10/2020: Claudia is on RaiGulp "La banda dei fuoriclasse" speaking about rain and heavy rains.

• 2020: Claudia received the AGU 2019 Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing - Geophysical Research Letters.

• May 2020: Welcome to Paolo, who is joining our group as a research fellow, to work on urbanisation effects on heavy precipitations.

• Coronavirus outbrake: some analysis of the data (last update May 19th)

• 15/1/2020: Good luck to Agostino and Anna, who are  on the oceanographic RV Atalante for a 5 week campaign near Barbados, as part of the EUREC4A-OA project.

• 10/1/2020: The EUREC4A-OA oceanographic campaign has been funded by JPI Climate and Ocean, and we are part of it!

• 1/2020: Welcome to Fabien, who is joining our group as a postdoc, to work on air-sea feedbacks.

• 11/11/2019: Prof. Hezi Gildor is visiting us from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and giving a talk on "Two-way interactions between biota and climate"

• 10/2019: Anna is on the Nature Research Ecology and Evolution Community!

• 24/10/2019: Claudia partecipa a Il futuro visto da qui: Dialoghi tra arte e scienza sul domani.

• 10/2019: The results of our recently published Scientific Reports paper have been presented on RAI3 Geo&Geo, Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, La Stampa, Radio24,  and others...

• 09/2019: Job opening:  post-doc position in our group, to work on air-sea interactions at the mesoscale and submesoscales. Contact us if interested.

• 09/2019: Welcome to Alice, who is joining our group as a PhD student.

• 07/2019: Claudia teaches at the Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology.

• 11/06/2019: Claudia speaks at AISF Physicsaholic - Maga Furla, Milano

• 04/2019: Claudia is interviewed for the Focus Extra special issue on Oceans. 

• 04/2019: Welcome back to Chiara, who spent 8 months at Georgia Tech. working in the group led by Annalisa Bracco.

• 02/2019: Claudia is nominated Italian IUGG vice-representative.

• 11/2018: Claudia is nominated member of the European Space Agency STEREOID Mission Advisory Group.

• 11/2018: congrats to Andrea who graduated and is leaving for grad school in Pisa.

• 11-12/2018:  Geophysics Seminar Series. 

• 11/2018: Our Climate Journal Club resumes. Join us!

• 31/10/2018: Claudia is interviewed by Studio Aperto and by  Corriere della Sera on the exceptional waves in the Ligurian sea caused by  Oct 29th storm.

• 09/2018: Congrats to Michele who graduated and is leaving for grad school in Trento.

• 09/2018: Welcome back to Mostafa, who spent 6 months at Harvard University working with Eli Tziperman.

• 08/2018: Chiara leaves to spend 7 months at Georgia Tech in the group led by Annalisa Bracco.

• 07/2018: Claudia teaches at the Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology.

• 07/2018: Congrats to Anna who was awarded a PhD fellowship at the University of Genova.

• 07/2018: Claudia gets the National Abilitation as Full Professor in Geophysics (applied in 2012!).

• 05/2018: Congratulations to Francesco who got a post doc position at ENS - Lyon.

• 05/2018: Claudia comes back after spending 2 months at Harvard University.