Stefano Materia - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti

Curriculum Vitae
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Stefano Materia
Viale Aldo Moro 44
+39 3392084***
[email protected]
Sesso M | Data di nascita 24/08/1979 | Nazionalità Italiana
WORK EXPERIENCE
October 2014 – today
Centro Euro Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici – Junior Scientist
• WP2 leader assistant with the FP7 EU project Indo-Mareclim
• Seasonal predictions and applications
• CMCC scientific coordinator for the Climate-KIC EU project “Wat-EnerCast”
• Teacher of the PhD program “Scienza e gestione dei Cambiamenti
Climatici” , University Ca’ Foscari, Venice
Climate Simulation and Prediction (CSP) Division
July 2009 – September
2014
Centro Euro Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici – Post Doc
• Interaction between land surface and climate at the global scale
• Role of land surface in seasonal forecasts
• WP leader in the FP7 EU project Climafrica
Climate Service (SERC) Division
May 2005 – March 2006
ARPA Emilia Romagna – Project Manager
• Development and implementation of a database for management of
purification debris in agriculture.
Inland waters Division
EDUCATION
January 2006 – June 2009
Dottorato di ricerca in Geofisica
Università degli Studi di Bologna
Climate dynamics, Physics of the atmosphere, Fluid dynamics, Numerical
methods for the ocean and atmosphere, Earth physics, Seismology
Visiting student
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2007
January 2004 – July 2004
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Center for Ocean, Land and Atmosphere Studies, Calverton (MD), USA
Master student
University of di Lund, Sweden (Erasmus student)
Editing of the master thesis titled: Forests acting as a carbon source: analysis
of two possible causes for the Norunda forest site
November 1998 – March
2005
Master degree in Environmental science
Università degli Studi di Bologna, Ravenna
Mathematical analysis, physics, dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean,
organic and inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, geology, climatology,
meteorology, ecology, biology.
PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue
Other languages
Italian
COMPREHENSION
Listening
Reading
English
C1
C2
Spanish
B1
B1
SPEAKING
Spoken
Sopken
interaction
production
C1
C1
A1
A2
WRITING
C1
A1
Livelli: A1/2 Livello base - B1/2 Livello iermedio - C1/2 Livello avanzato
Job related skills
Organizational and
managerial skill
Computer skills
Data analysis and postprocessing, climate forecast methods and
modeling, land-surface/atmosphere interaction, river routing and
systems.
Team working experience, excellent learning and work planning skills,
acquired during the PhD program and the post-DOC position, the
experience as WP leader in UE projects and the numerous foreign
experiences.
Mastery of Linux and Mac environments, full knowledge of the program
language Fortran2003. Mastery of softwares for the numeric calculation,
analysis and visualization of scientific data, like Matlab and Grads.
Full knowledge of applications for manipulation of climate and weather
data, like NCO and CDO.
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Electrician, expertise acquired as a family collaborator in the family company
between 1994 and 2004
Other expertises
Driver license
Publications
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European driver license, B category
Bellucci A, Haarsma R, Bellouin N, Booth B, Cagnazzo C, van den Hurk B,
Keenlyside N, Koenigk T, Massonnet F, Materia S and Weiss M, 2015.
Advancements in decadal climate predictability: the role of non-oceanic
drivers. Accepted on Review of Geophysics. DOI: 10.1002/2014RG000473.
Alessandri A, A. Borrelli, A. Cherchi, J-Y. Lee, B. Wang, S. Materia, and A.
Navarra, 2014: Prediction of Indian summer monsoon onset using dynamical
sub-seasonal
forecasts.
Monthly
Wea.
Rev.,
143,
778-793.
DOI:10.1175/MWR-D-14-00187.1.
Materia S, Borrelli A, Bellucci A, Alessandri A, Di Pietro P, Athanasiadis PJ,
Navarra A, and Gualdi S, 2014. Impact of Atmosphere and Land Surface
Initial Conditions on Seasonal Forecasts of Global Surface Temperature. J.
Climate, 27, 9253–9271.
Athanasiadis P, Bellucci A, Hermanson L, Scaife A, MacLachlan C, Arribas
A, Materia S, Borrelli A, and Gualdi, 2014. The Representation of
Atmospheric Blocking and the Associated Low-Frequency Variability in Two
Seasonal Prediction Systems. J. Climate, 27, 9082–9100.
Fattore F, Bertolini T, Materia S, Gualdi S, Thongo M'Bou A, Nicolini G,
Valentini R, Legras de Grandcourt de Musset A, Tedesco D, Castaldi S,
2014. Seasonal trends of dry and bulk concentration of nitrogen compounds
over a rain forest in Ghana, Biogeosciences, 11, 3069-3081, DOI:
10.5194/bg-11-3069-2014.
Materia S, Gualdi S, Terray L, Navarra A, 2012. The effect of Congo River
freshwater discharge on Eastern Equatorial Atlantic climate variability. Clim
Dyn, 39, 9-10, 2109-2125
Materia S, Dirmeyer PA, Guo Z, Alessandri A, Navarra A, 2010. The sensitivity
of simulated river discharge to land surface representation and meteorological
forcings. J. Hydrometeor, 11, 334-351.
Projects
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Climafrica: progetto del 7° programma quadro dell’UE - FP7 (2010-2014).
Work Package leader.
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Indo-MARECLIM: progetto del 7° programma quadro dell’UE - FP7 (20122015). co-leader di work package.
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Wat-Ener-Cast. Progetto Climate Kic innovation dell’UE. Responsabile
scientifico per il CMCC
• .
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Personal data
Conferences
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Materia S, Borrelli A, Bellucci A, Alessandri A, Di Pietro P, Athanasiadis P,
Navarra A, Gualdi S, 2014. Impact of atmosphere and land surface
initial conditions on seasonal forecast of global surface temperature
Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 16, EGU2014-16409
Materia S, Ward N, Gualdi S, Navarra A, 2014. Statistical downscaling of
dynamical seasonal predictions to high resolution monthly precipitation
fields. WMO International Conference on Subseasonal to Seasonal
Prediction, College Park, Maryland, U.S.A.
Materia S, Bellucci A, Borrelli A, Gualdi S, 2013. Land and atmosphere initial
states influence surface temperature forecast in dynamical seasonal
predictions, International workshop on seasonal to decadal prediction,
Toulouse, France.
Materia S, Jung M, Wang G, Borrelli A, Weber U., 2013. SM-ECVplus: A
global observational-based soil moisture dataset for climate studies.
Satellite Soil Moisture Validation & Application Workshop, Frascati (RM)
Materia S, Fierli F, Borrelli A, Gualdi S, and A. Bellucci A, 2012. An analysis
of the West African Monsoon predictability. Geophysical Research Abstracts
Vol. 14, EGU2012-12704, Vienna, Austria
Materia S, Tribbia J, Large W, 2011. The interaction between large river
freshwater discharge and Tropical Atlantic Variability. WCRP Open
Science Conference, Denver (CO).
Materia S, Tribbia J, Large W, Danabasoglu G, Gualdi S, 2011. Impacts of
ocean temperature bias along the southwestern African coast.
Geophysical Research Abstracts, 13, EGU2011-8924, Vienna, Austria.
Materia S, Tribbia J, 2010. A linkage between freshwater discharge into the
Gulf of Guinea and summer climate variability in the Mediterranean: a
preliminary study. EMS Annual Meeting Abstracts, 10, EMS2010-638.
Zurich, Switzerland.
Materia S, Gualdi S, Navarra A, 2010. The effect of Congo River freshwater
discharge on Tropical Atlantic and Africa climate variability. Geophysical
Research Abstracts Vol. 12, EGU2010-11462, Vienna, Austria
Materia S, Dirmeyer PA, Guo Z, Alessandri A, Navarra A, 2009. Sensitivity of
river discharge to the quality of external meteorological forcings. EMS
Annual Meeting Abstracts, 9, EMS2009-424, Toulouse, France.
Materia S, Alessandri A, Navarra A, 2009. A new representation of river
basin discharge in the global climate system. Geophysical Research
Abstracts, 11, EGU2009-5138, Vienna, Austria.
Materia S, Navarra A, 2007. Explanation for biases in a river routing model
for climate simulation. Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), 4th
Annual Meeting, Bangkok, Thailand.
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Presentations and
Seminars
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Materia S., Cherchi A., 2015. Atmospheric General Circulation Models:
methodology, results, biases. Indo-MARECLIM side events, Kochi,
India.
Materia S, Borrelli A, Bellucci A, Gualdi S., 2015. Climate Prediction
Systems: Effect of initialization in seasonal and intra-seasonal
predictions. Indo-MARECLIM side events, Kochi, India
Materia S, Gualdi S, 2014. Climate service at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre
on Climate Change. GFCS Regional Consultation Meeting, Antalyia,
Turkey.
Materia S, Gualdi S, Cogo E, Michetti M, Lanza A, 2014. Fattori climatici che
influenzano la produzione di caffè. Illy headquarters, Trieste, Italy
Materia S, Borrelli A, Bellucci A, Gualdi S, 2013. Climate outlook for the next
winter. First session of the Mediterranean Climate Outlook Forum
(MEDCOF1), Belgrade, Serbia.
Scoccimarro E, Materia S, Borrelli A, Bellucci A, Gualdi S, 2013.
Experimental seasonal predictions at CMCC. First session of the
Mediterranean Climate Outlook Forum (MEDCOF1), Belgrade, Serbia.
Materia S, Borrelli A, Bellucci A, Gualdi S, 2013. Experimental seasonal
predictions at CMCC. Fifth session of North Eurasian Climate outlook
forum (NEACOF5), Moscow, Russia.
Materia S, Jung M, Arneth A, Cumani R, Eboli F, De Lamo X, Bombelli A,
Valentini R, 2012. Climafrica. Climate prediction in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Impacts and adaptation. GFCS Dialogue Side Event, Geneva,
Switzerland.
Materia S, Borrelli A, Gualdi S, 2012. Seasonal to decadal prediction for
Sub-Saharan African using the CMCC model. The 32° Greater Horn of
Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF), Zanzibar, Tanzania.
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