Filippo Giorgi is the Head of the Earth System Physics (ESP) section of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, since 1998. From 1986 to 1998 he was a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. He is an expert in climate modeling (focus on regional scales), climate change and impacts and authored over 350 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. From 2002 to 2008 he was a vice chair of WGI of the IPCC, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, and in 2018 he was awarded the EGU Alexander von Humboldt medal.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND INTERESTS

Regional and global climate modeling and diagnostics; global change; parameterizations of physical processes for regional and global circulation models; coupling of regional and general circulation models; anthropogenic climate change and natural climate variability; chemistry-climate interactions; tracer transport and aerosol modeling; climatic effects of aerosols; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; the hydrologic cycle.