Roberto Buizza

Physics of the Atmosphere, Earth-system modelling, climate change, meteorology and predictability:

• Science Diplomacy;
• Development and operational implementation of the ECMWF coupled ensembles, which provide the best medium-range predictions in the world;
• Development and implementation of stochastic methods to simulate model errors in Earth-system models;
• Completion of the first European coupled (ocean, land, sea-ice, and atmosphere) reanalysis of the 20^th century;
• Contributed to the development and implementation of the ECMWF strategies, and negotiated cooperation agreements with key organizations from the US, China, Australia, South Korea, Japan;
• Developed and implemented methods to estimate the probability of extreme events;
• Developed and implemented probabilistic verification methods.

List of Invited Seminars and Oral Presentation to International Conferences (from 2004 to date)

2021:

• Short Course on “Il Clima della Terra” at Liceo Scientifico S.A. Menaggio (23/10/21-4/12/21):
  • L1 - Le componenti del sistema Terra che determinano il suo clima
  • L2 - Modelli: cosa è un modello del sistema Terra?
  • L3 - Osservazioni del sistema Terra e ricostruzione del clima passato
  • L4 - Certezze ed errori, feedback e punti di non ritorno
  • L5 - Breve storia del clima della Terra 
  • L6 - Il cambiamento climatico e gli scenari futuri
• Annual Meeting of the Belgian Physical Society, BPS-2021 (Hasselt University, 2/12/21):
  • Invited lecture on “Noise and Butterflies: Weather and Climate Prediction in a World of Uncertainties”
• Kick-off meeting of the new Italian national PhD program on Sustainable Development and Climate Change (PhD-SDC) (Roma, 24-25/11/2021):
  • Invited lecture on “Il cambiamento climatico e la sostenibilità”
  • Invited lecture on “The climate challenge and the latest IPCC report”
• Corso di aggiornamento per professori delle scuole secondarie organizzato dell’Associazione Italiana di Fisica (AIF Pavia, 24/11/21):
  • Invited lecture on “La sfida del cambiamento climatico”
• La scienza nel III^o millennio (Verderio, 19/11/2021):
  • Invited talk on “La sfida del cambiamento climatico”
• Architecture and climate change meetings organized by “Biennale di Venezia di Architettura 2022 – Padiglione Italia” (oct-nov 2021):
  • Chair of the 4 events, and co-organizer
  • Invited lecture on “The climate challenged and the latest IPCC report”
• A2A Milano (22/10/21):
  • Invited talk on “Numerical weather prediction”
• Event on “Understanding Seasonal Forecasts”, organized by the EU H2020 project FocusAfrica (13/10/21):
  • Invited lecture on “Weather forecasts from days to seasons”
• Workshop “Per una Scienza in Azione”, organized by the “Associazione Medici per l’Ambiente” (1/10/2021):
  • Invited lecture on “Le misure necessarie: obiettivo zero emissioni nette”
• International workshop on “Climate & change: legal and ethical implications” (13/09/21):
  • Invited lecture on “The climate challenge and the latest IPCC report” 
• Workshop “Per una Scienza in Azione”, organized by the “Associazione Medici per l’Ambiente” con il patrocinio dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanita’ (24/09/2021):
  • Invited lecture on “L’ultimo rapporto IPCC: codice rosso per la Terra”
• International workshop on “The value of reforecasts and past forecasts”, organized by the UK Meteorological Office (23-24/09/21):
  • Invited talk on “Key questions on the generation (and the use) of reforecasts”
• Meeting SCALIURBANI - Conversazioni di architettura, organized by Consiglio nazionale degli architetti (20/09/21):
  • Invited talk on “L’ultimo rapporto IPCC: codice rosso per la Terra”
• Workshop on “Mitigazione: obiettivo zero emissioni nette”, organized by the CIMETECH project (22/09/21):
  • Invited talk on “The state of the climate, and the latest IPCC report”
• Workshop “Ustica Blue days: la sostenibilita’ dal centro del Mediterraneo” (Ustica, 24/7/21):
  • Invited talk on “Il Mediterraneo: una delle aree piu’ a rishcio dell’impatto del cambiamento climatico”
• International workshop on “The role of science in climate litigation”, co-organized by Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and the “British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)” (London, 14-15/7/21):
  • Co-organizer of the workshop
  • Chair of the final panel discussion on “The role of science in international environmental and climate change litigation”
  • Delivered an Introduction talk
• Seasonal School on “Climate change and international law: interdisciplinary perspectives”, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (12-16/7/21):
  • Invited lecture on What is climate change and what role can science play to ensure an adequate response? An introduction”
• International Conference “Climate Exp0”, co-organized by the “UK COP26 University Network” and the “Rete delle Universita’ per la Sostenibilita’ (RUS)” (London, 17-21/5/21):
  • Co-organizer of the conference, and member of the scientific committee for the organization of the “Nature Based Solution” day;
  • Chair of one of the “Nature Based Solution” Sessions;
  • Talk during the closing session/Concluding remarks;
• Workshop on “Climate change litigation”, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (6-7/5/21):
  • Invited lecture on “Climate change. A few facts”
• Liceo Scientifico di Menaggio (5/5/21):
  • Invited talk on “Il cambiamento climatico”
• Liceo Scientifico Mortara (16/4/21):
  • Invited talk on “La sfida del cambiamento climatico: cosa sta accadendo? Perche’ dovremmo agire?”
• Workshop “In dialogo per una nuova alleanza con la Terra”, Centro Etica Ambientale (Bergamo, 19/4/21):
  • Invited talk on “Il clima che cambia: osservazioni, proiezioni, azioni” 
• Seasonal School on the “Ethics of climate change: reshaping responsibilities for present and future generations”, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (22-26/2/21):
  • Invited lecture on “Climate change: evidence and uncertainties”

2020:

• Università Roma Tre (11/12/20):
  • Invited lecture on “Uncertainty estimation in weather and climate”
• Workshop Fondazione Pisa / Palazzo Blu (10/12/20):
  • Invited lecture on “Il cambiamento climatico” 
• Workshop “Lost in Translation”, Istituto di Cultura Svizzero di Roma (2/12/20):
  • Invited talk on “Climate change. A few facts”
• Il Circolo, Circolo Culturale Italiano, London (18/11/20):
  • Invited talk on “La sfida del cambiamento climatico: aspetti conosciuti e proiezioni future”
• Transdisciplinary Lecture Series 5 – Conversation on the present state – Geopolitics, TU Delft/Dalhousie Univ. University (5/11/21):
  • Invited talk on “Variability and predictability of weather and climate”
• Autumn Digital Water School, REWAT project, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (26/10/20):
  • Invited lecture on “Earth-system models for weather and climate”
  • Invited lecture on “Weather and climate information for water management”
• Workshop “ImparaConNoi 2020”, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (19/6/20):
  • Invited lecture on “Il cambiamento climatico: fatti e modelli”
• Training seminars “stay connected”, Environment and Climate Change Canada (30/6/20):
  • Invited lecture on “Earth-system ensembles for weather and climate”  
• Fridays for Future (26/5/21):
  • Invited lecture on “Cambiamento climatico: come possiamo motivare azioni per ridurre le emissioni?”
• Stockholm University and Bert Bolin Climate Centre (11/5/20):
  • Invited lecture / award: Bert Bolin Climate Lecture on “Climate change: how can we motivate transformation?”
  • Invited lecture / award: Bert Bolin Science Seminar on “Uncertainty estimation in weather and climate”
• Oxford University (6/4/20): 
  • Invited talk on “Ensemble disease prediction”
• Workshop on “Proteggi il Pianeta”, Global Shapers Community Firenze (22/4/20):
  • Invited talk on “L’evoluzione climatica del nostro pianeta”
• International Conference on “Ensemble Methods in Modelling, and Data Assimilation (EMMDA-2020), National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) (Delhi, 24-26/2/2020):
  • Invited talk on “Data Assimilation and Ensembles: Two Invaluable Tools to Increase Predictability and Quantify Uncertainty”
• Workshop on “Sfide alla politica: populismo, cambiamento climatico, tecnologie trasformative”, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa (6-7/2/2020):
  • Invited talk on “Cambiamento climatico: ma perché dovrei iniziare io a ridurre le emissioni”
• Workshop of the H2020 EU project AdaptNet project (Universita’ of Milano, 20-25/1/2020):
  • Invited lectures on “Introduction to the climate change problem”
• 100^th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS100, Boston, 11-17 Jan 2020):
  • Invited talk on ‘Data assimilation and ensembles: two invaluable tools to increase predictability and quantify uncertainty’; co-chair of two sessions

2019:

• Workshop on “Climate modelling: different approaches and applications” (IUSS Pavia, 4/12/2019):
  • Invited talk on “3CSA: the Centre for Climate Change studies and Sustainable Actions” 
• XXIII Meeting dei Diritti Umani, Mandela Forum (Firenze, 10/12/2019): 
  • Invited talk on “Climate change”
• 12^th International Conference of the ERCIM WGon Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2019; London 14-16 Dec 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘Ensemble methods for Weather Prediction’
• I-STORMS Project Workshop on ‘Comuincare l’incertezza delle previsioni meteo-marine’ (Venice, 28-29 oct 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘Fonti di incertezza nei modelli di previsione meteorologica e principali indici di stima’
• Cycle of seminars ‘Dialoghi con la modernità 2019’ (Biella, 21 Oct 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘Cambiamento climatico: un patto per salvare il mondo’
• Workshop on ‘Il cambiamento climatico tra mito e realtà’ (Univ. Pavia, 19 Oct 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘Cambiamenti climatici: osservazioni e proiezioni future’
• Workshop on ‘Nonlinear and stochastic methods in climate and geophysical fluid dynamics’, part of the ‘The Mathematics of Climate and the Environment’ program, Institut Henri Poicaré (Paris 7-11 Oct 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘Numerical modelling applied to weather prediction and climate studies’
• Workshop on ‘Gestione della risorsa idrica nel territorio Apuo-Versiliese’ (4 Oct 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘The global challenge of climate change’ 
• Workshop on ‘Logistica e nuovi modelli distributivi: il reale impatto sul climate change e le possibili soluzioni’, Aspen Institute Italy (30 Sep 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘Climate change and the transport sector’
• Convegno ‘Cambiamenti climatici e conseguenze sulla vita futura, il cibo e l’agricoltura’ (BioDistretto, Bergamo, 27 Sep 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘Some important facts about climate change’
• Forum ENGIE 2019 PIU’ XMENOCO2 (Milano, 27 Sep 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘La scienza che divulga ed agisce’
• 2^nd National Congress of AISAM (Associazione Italiana Scienze dell’Atmosfera e della Meteorologia; Napoli, 24-26 Sep 2019):
  • Presentation on ‘Data assimilation, hierarchical models and ensembles: three invaluable tools to deal with operational meteorology’
• Workshop SII-HIS – ‘Celebrazione del decennale della SII-HIS, 2009-2019’ (SII-IHS Bologna, 16 Sep 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘Few considerations on coupled models, climate change and water’, and participation to a panel discussion
• Summer School on ‘Digital water management and water-related agroecosystem services - II Edition (Pisa, 10 Sep 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘Earth-system models for weather prediction and climate studies’
  • Invited talk on ‘Weather and climate information for water management’
• EU project GROWINPRO Workshop on ‘Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities’ (Pisa, 9 September 2019; organizer):
  • Talk on ‘Few facts about climate change, and a brief introduction to 3CSA’
• Workshop on ‘Climate change: challenges and opportunities’, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, 27 June 2019; organizer):
  • Talk on ‘The Centre on Climate Change of the Scuole Superiori Federate’
• ECMWF Annual Seminar 2019 on ‘Subseasonal and seasonal forecasting: recent progress and future prospects’, ECMWF (Reading UK, 2-5 Sep 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘Taming the butterfly effect to reach subseasonal and seasonal predictability’
• Summer School ‘Le sfide globali’ (Firenze, 12-13 July 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘La sfida globale dei cambiamenti climatici’ 
• Gran Paradiso Summer School on Critical Zone and Ecosystem Dynamics across Space and Time (Ceresole Reale, 8-11 July 2019):
  • Invited talk #1 on ‘Earth-system models, scales’ interactions and predictability’
  • Invited talk #2 on ’Land-surface processes in coupled Earth-system models’
• Dynamics and Complexity Pisa 2019 (DCP’19; CNR Pisa, 1-3 July 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘Data assimilation, hierarchical models and ensembles: three invaluable tools to deal with complexity’
• Workshop EU LIFE REWAT project, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (28 June 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘Weather and climate information to manage water resources’
• Workshop on Earth-system observations, modelling, climate change and the European Copernicus services, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (27 June 2019; Chair):
  • Talk on ‘3CSA: the Centre for Climate Change studies and Sustainable Actions’
• Meeting ‘STEM for Future’, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (20 June 2019):
  • Oral presentation on ‘La sfida dei cambiamenti climatici’
• 1^a Conferenza Nazionale sulle Previsioni Meteorologiche e Climatiche, Bologna (16-17 June 2019):
  • Oral presentation on ‘Italia Meteo e ECMWF: come meglio utilizzare le sinergie per fornire agli utenti previsioni a breve, medio e lungo termine?
• University of Firenze (Firenze, 7 June 2019):
  • Invited lectures on ‘Numerical modelling applied to weather prediction and climate studies (part I and part II)’
• Focus Live Mondadori (Genova, 1-2 June 2019):
  • Invited talk ‘Un pianeta in bilico’
• Workshop on ‘Copernicus: il programma Europeo per l’Osservazione della Terra e le sue applicazioni’, Politecnico di Torino (Torino, 30 May 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘Un punto di vista dal mondo accademico: 3CSA, l'iniziativa delle Scuole Universitarie Federate’ 
• The Fifth International Workshop on Next-Generation NWP Models: Verification and Predictability, KIAPS (22-24 May, Jeju Island, Korea):
  • Invited talk on ‘The Forecast Skill Horizon’
• Environmental Engineering, Trento University (9 May 2019):
  • Talk on ‘3CSA: the Centre for Climate Change studies and Sustainable Actions’
• Scuola Normale Superiore, SNS Pisa (15 Apr 2019):
  • Talk on ‘Numerical modelling applied to weather prediction and climate studies’
• The Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College, London (29 Mar 2019):
  • Talk on ‘3CSA: the Centre for Climate Change studies and Sustainable Actions’
• 3CSA(ESSDI) Workshop 3, Istituto Superiore di Studi Avanzati IUSS Pavia, (20-21 March 2019; Chair):
  • Opening talk: ‘Status of the new initiative on climate of the ‘Scuole Universitarie Federate’
• Centro di Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico RSE, Milano (20 Feb 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘The need for a probabilistic approach to weather prediction: the ECMWF experience’
• LaMMA/CNR, Firenze (13 Feb 2019):
  • Talk on ‘3CSA: the Centre for Climate Change studies and Sustainable Actions’
• Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies SSSA, Pisa (5 Feb 2018):
  • Talk on ‘Climate Change: a global, urgent problem’
• ENEL Foundation, Rome (4 Feb 2019):
  • Talk on ‘3CSA: the Centre for Climate Change studies and Sustainable Actions’
• Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano (29 Jan 2019):
  • Talk on ‘‘3CSA: the Centre for Climate Change studies and Sustainable Actions’
• Workshop on ‘Transdisciplinary approaches for sustainable intensification of rural areas: a spotlight on Ethiopia’, Sant’Anna Advanced School of Studies, Pisa (22-23 Jan 2019):
  • Invited talk on ‘Weather and climate information for agriculture applications’

2018:

• Workshop ‘Terra Chiama – +Europa risponde’ (Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Roma, 15 Dec 2018):
  • Invited talk on ‘Climate Change and COP24’
• Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies SSSA, Pisa (13 Dec 2018):
  • Talk on ‘Weather, Climate and 3CSA’
• University of Washington (Seattle, 25 September 2018):
  • Invited lecture on ‘ECMWF 2016-2025 strategy: moving towards seamless ensembles’
• WCRP Second International Conference on Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Prediction (S2S) and Second International Conference on Seasonal to Decadal Prediction (S2D), Boulder (Colorado, US), 17-21 September 2018:
  • Oral presentation on ‘Initialisation and model error simulation in the ECMWF coupled ensembles’
• First National Congress of AISAM (Associazione Italiana Scienze dell’Atmosfera e Meteorologia), Bologna, 10-13 September 2018:
  • Open lecture on ‘Previsioni meteo e predicibilita’’
• ESSDI(3CSA) Workshop 2, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, (5-6 July 2018; Chair):
  • Opening talk: ‘The new initiative on climate of the ‘Scuole Universitarie Federate’
• Corso di Orientamento Universitario, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna e Scuola Superiore Normale, Pisa, 5 July 2018:
  • Invited seminar on ‘Meteorologia e clima (previsioni, proiezioni ed applicazioni): la scienza al servizio dell’umanità’
• EuroGOOS (European Global Ocean Observing System) General Assembly, Brussels, 23-25 May 2018:
  • Invited talk on ‘The role of the ocean in weather forecasting’ 
• ESSDI(3CSA) Workshop 1, Sant’Anna Advanced School of Studies, (10-11 May 2019; Chair):
  • Opening talk: ‘A proposal for a new initiative on climate of the ‘Scuole Universitarie Federate’ 
• SISSA Advanced Workshop on ‘Non-equilibrium Systems in Physics, Geosciences, and Life Sciences’, ICTP Trieste (14-25 May 2018):
  • Invited talk on ‘The Forecast Skill Horizon’
• EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna 8-13 April:
  • Oral presentation on ‘The history of HEPEX – a community of practice in hydrologic prediction’
  • Invited presentation on ‘ECMWF 2016-2025 strategy: moving towards seamless ensembles’

2017:

• ERA-CLIM2 Symposium on ‘Climate Reanalyses and Services for Society’, University of Bern, 14 December 2017:
  • Opening talk (meeting co-organizer)
  • Oral presentation on ‘Overview of the ERA-CLIM2 project’
• ERA-CLIM2 4^th General Assembly, University of Bern, 12-13 Dec 2017:
  • Opening talk: ‘Introduction, status and progress of ERA-CLIM2 work’
• ECMWF Council, 7-8 December 2017:
  • Invited Lecture on ’25 years of ensemble prediction at ECMWF’
• 5^th International Conference on Reanalysis, Rome, 13-17 November 2017:
  • Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee;
  • Oral presentation on ‘Reanalyses’ use in weather forecasting’
• Oceans of Knowledge 2017 meeting, Royal Institution, London, 7 November 2017:
  • Invited talk on ‘The role of the Ocean in Medium Range Forecasting’
• Annual Meeting of the ‘Societa’ Italiana di Scienze del Clima (SISC) – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, 25-26 October 2017:
  • Invited presentation on ‘ECMWF 2016-2025 strategy: moving towards seamless ensembles’
• Numerical Modelling, Predictability and Data Assimilation in Weather, Ocean and Climate: A Symposium Honouring the Legacy of Anna Trevisan, Bologna, Italy, 17-20 October 2017:
  • Oral presentation on ‘The Forecast Skill Horizon’
• ECMWF Annual Seminar on ‘Ensemble Prediction: past, present and future’, Reading, 11-14 September 2017:
  • Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee;
  • Oral presentation on ‘The Forecast Skill Horizon’
• Corso di Orientamento Universitario, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, 27 June 2017:
  • Invited seminar on ‘Clima e meteorologia: previsioni, proiezioni ed applicazioni’
• Giornata Mondiale dell’Ambiente, L’Aquila University, 22 June 2017:
  • Invited talk on ‘Previsioni meteo: quali fenomeni riusciamo a prevedere oggi? Quanti giorni in anticipo?’
• Meeting on Research Output Measures, ECMWF, 28 Apr 2017:
  • Oral presentation on ‘The ECMWF Research to Operations (R2O) process’
• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC, Montreal), 30 Jan 2017:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘ECMWF Research Developments and Future Plans’
• 97^th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Seattle, 22-27 Jan 2017:
  • Oral presentation on ‘25 years of ensemble prediction at ECMWF’ (https://ams.confex.com/ams/97Annual/webprogram/Paper309208.html)
  • Oral presentation on ‘CERA-20C: the ECMWF coupled reanalysis of the 20th century’ (https://ams.confex.com/ams/97Annual/webprogram/Paper309157.html)
  • Oral presentation on ‘Intrinsic Limit of Atmospheric Predictability for Mid-Latitude Jet/front Systems’ (https://ams.confex.com/ams/97Annual/webprogram/Paper307752.html)
• ERA-CLIM2 3^rd General Assembly, University of Wien, 16-18 Jan 2017:
  • Opening talk: ‘Introduction, status and progress of ERA-CLIM2 work’

2016:

• Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L’Aquila, Italy, 17 Nov 2016:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘Do we need an Earth-System model also for weather prediction?’
• 15 Anni del Centro di Eccellenza per l'integrazione di Tecniche di Telerilevamento e Modellistica Numerica per la Previsione di Eventi Meteorologici Severi (CETEMPS), L’Aquila, Italy, 17 Nov 2016:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘ECMWF Research Developments and future plans’
• Festival della Meteorologia, Rovereto, 11 Nov 2016:
  • Oral presentation on ‘Il Centro Meteorologico Europeo: una infrastruttura d’avanguardia al servizio dei suoi utenti’
• WS on ‘Arno 1966: 50 anni di innovazioni in meteorologia’, Academia dei Georgofili, Firenze, 3 Nov 2016 (http://www.area.fi.cnr.it/index.php/en/events/icalrepeat.detail/2016/11/03/35/-/workshop-arno-1966-50-anni-di-innovazioni-in-meteorologia):
  • Oral presentation on ‘La modellistica a scala globale: i progressi dell’ECMWF dalla sua fondazione a oggi’
• European meteorological Society (EMS) 16^th Annual Meeting, 11-16 Sep 2016, Trieste, Italy:
  • Oral presentation on ‘On the transient atmospheric response to an impulsive sea-ice forcing’
  • Oral presentation on ‘The Forecast Skill Horizon’
• Laboratorio di Monitoraggio e Modellistica Ambientale (LaMMA) per lo sviluppo sostenibile, Firenze, 7-8 Jul 2016:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘Estimating uncertainty with the ECMWF ensembles’
• Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton, 16 June 2016:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘The ECMWF Coupled data assimilation for climate reanalysis’
• 7^th NCEP Ensemble Users Workshop, Washington, US, 13-15 June 2016 (http://www.dtcenter.org/events/workshops16/ensembles/):
  • Oral presentation on ‘20+ years of ensemble prediction at ECMWF’
• ERA-CLIM2 M27 Review Meeting, ECMWF, 25 April 2017:
  • Opening talk: ‘The ERA-CLIM2 project: introduction, status and progress’
• ECMWF/WWRP Workshop on Model Uncertainty, ECMWF, Reading, UK, 11-15 April 2016:
  • Oral presentation on ‘Weather prediction in a world of uncertainties: should we care about model uncertainty?’
• London School of Economics (LSE) Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Methods Group, London, UK, 1 Feb 2016:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘Signals and noise, hawk-moths and butterflies: weather prediction in a world of uncertainties’
• 96^th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 10-14 Jan 2016:
  • Oral presentation on ‘A stratospheric link between Barents-Kara sea-ice and the circulation in the North Atlantic’ (https://ams.confex.com/ams/96Annual/webprogram/Paper282747.html)
  • Oral presentation on ‘The Forecast Skill Horizon’ (https://ams.confex.com/ams/96Annual/webprogram/Paper290907.html)

2015:

• ERA-CLIM2 2^nd General Assembly, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, 9-11 Dec 2015:
  • Opening talk: ‘The ERA-CLIM2 project: introduction’
• Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Tsukuba, 6 Aug 2015:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘Estimating uncertainty with the ECMWF ensembles’
• Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Tokyo 3-5 Aug 2015:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘The Forecast Skill Horizon’
• ECMWF User Meeting 2015, Reading, UK, 8-10 Jun 2015:
  • Oral presentation on ‘Estimating uncertainty with the ECMWF ensembles Roberto Buizza (ECMWF)’
• 11^th Session of the Forum on Regional Climate Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction for Asia (FOCRAII), Beijing, China. 11-13 May 2015:
  • Oral presentation on ‘2014-2015 ENSO Evolution and Forecasts’ 

2014:

• HEPEX Webinar, 30 Sep 2014:
  • Webinar on ‘2004-2014: the rise of the meteorological ensembles in the HEPEX decade’
• 1^st World Weather Open Science Conference (WWOSC), Montreal, Canada, 16-21 Aug 2014 (http://wwosc2014.org/pdf/20140825-WWOSC-FinalBookofAbstracts.pdf):
  • Oral presentation on ‘The Forecast Skill Horizon’
• 10^th Anniversary Meeting of the Hydrological Ensemble Prediction Experiment (HEPEX), Washington, US, 24-26 June 2014: 
  • Oral presentation on ‘A decade of HEPEX – a review of what we have achieved’ 
  • Oral presentation on ‘The rise of ensemble forecasting at ECMWF in the 10 years of HEPEX’
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Global Modelling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), 28 Mar 2014:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘The ECMWF Ensembles’
• Imperial College, London, UK, 18 March 2014:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘Extended-range prediction with coupled ocean-atmosphere models: opportunities and challenges’

2013:

• Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly (DACA/IUGG) 2013, Davos 8-12 Jul 2013:
  • Oral presentation on ‘Ensembles why, and how?’
• Forum Meteo/Clima, Meteo France International Symposium on Climate Risks, Paris, 21 Mar 2013:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘Weather Prediction’

2012:

• Ensemble Workshop, ECMWF, 29 Nov 2012:
  • Oral presentation on ‘20 years of ensemble prediction’
• 12^th European meteorological Society (EMS) Meeting, Lodz, 10-14 Sept 2012:
  • Strategic Lecture on ‘Seasonal prediction: opportunities and challenges’
  • Oral presentation on ‘20 years of ensemble prediction at ECMWF’
  • Oral presentation on ‘Single best-guess and ensemble forecasts: what is the value of the additional information provided by ensembles?’

2011:

• 91^st American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Seattle, 22-27 Jan 2011:
  • Oral presentation on ‘Activities related to wind and wave energy forecasting at ECMWF’
  • Oral presentation on ‘Coupled ocean-atmosphere extended-range probabilistic prediction at ECMWF’

2010:

• 10th European meteorological Society (EMS) Meeting, ETH Zurich, 13-17 Sept 2010: 
  • Oral presentation on ‘Singular vector-based thinning of satellite data’
  • Oral presentation on ‘Recent changes of the ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System’
  • Oral presentation on ‘Horizontal resolution impact on forecast error growth’
  • Oral presentation on ‘Comparing TIGGE multi-model and ECMWF calibrated ensembles’
• European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2010 General Assembly EGU, Wien, 2-7 May 2010:
  • Oral presentation on ‘Horizontal resolution impact on forecast error growth’
  • Oral presentation on ‘Comparing TIGGE multi-model and ECMWF calibrated ensembles’
  • Oral presentation on ‘Ensemble Prediction and Data Assimilation at ECMWF’
  • Oral presentation on ‘Singular vector-based thinning of satellite data’

2009:

• IAPSO 2009 IAMAS/IAPSO/IACS Joint Assembly – 19-29 Jul Montreal 2009:
  • Oral presentation on ‘Ensemble Prediction and Data Assimilation at ECMWF’
• CAWCAR (Collaboration for Australian Weather and Climate Research) WS on Ensemble prediction and data assimilation, Melbourne, Australia, 16-20 Feb 2009:
  • Oral presentation on ‘Ensemble Data Assimilation and Prediction at ECMWF’
  • Public lecture on ‘Chaos, ensembles and weather prediction’

2008:

• AOGS (Asia Oceania Geosciences Society), Busan, Korea, 16-20 June 2008:
  • Oral presentation on ‘Ensemble Forecasting at ECMWF’
  • Oral presentation on ‘The Value of Targeted Observations’

2007:

• 3^rd Meeting of the Short Range Numerical Weather Prediction (SRNWP) Group, Rome, 10-12 Dec 2007:
  • Oral presentation on ‘Status and developments of the ECMWF ensemble’
• Stockholm University, 11 Sep 2007:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘The ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System’
• IAMAS 2007 and XXIV IUGG General Assembly, Perugia, 2-13 July 2007:
  • Oral presentation on ‘Developments of the ECMWF ensemble system’
  • Oral presentation on ‘The value of targeted observations’ 

2006:

• PREVIEW Project Meeting, Paris, 14 Sep 2006:
  • Oral presentation on ‘A framework to assess ensemble performance’
• American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) Workshop on “Mathematical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics”, Palo-Alto, 13-17 February 6:
  • Oral presentation on ‘Stochastic modelling and probabilistic weather prediction’
• PREVIEW Project Meeting, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy, 2-4 Mar 2006:
  • Oral presentation on ‘EPS and VarEPS re-forecasts for the PREVIEW special period’

2005:

• 2^nd Meeting of the Hydrological Ensemble Prediction Experiment (HEPEX), Boulder, US, 19-22 July 2005:
  • Oral presentation on ‘TIGGE (the THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble project)’
• National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado, 18-19 July 2005:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘Medium range ensemble prediction at ECMWF
  • Invited Seminar of ‘The value of targeted observations’ 
• University of Arizona, Tucson, 14 Jul 2005:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘Medium-range ensemble prediction at ECMWF’
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Global Modelling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), 11 July 2005:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘The value of targeted observations’
• Meeting of the Short Range Numerical Weather Prediction (SRNWP) Working Group, Bologna, 7-8 April 2005:
  • Oral presentation on ‘TIGGE: the THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble’
  • Oral presentation on ‘Medium-range ensemble prediction at ECMWF’

2004:

• 2^nd Workshop of the North American Ensemble Forecast System (NAEFS), National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP/NOAA), Washington, U.S.:
  • Oral presentation on ‘Ensemble Prediction at ECMWF’
• European Flood Awareness System (EFAS) 2^nd Workshop, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, 10-12 Nov 2004:
  • Oral presentation on ‘The value of ensemble prediction’
• Institute for Computation Fluid Dynamics (ICFD), Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.:
  • Invited Seminar on ‘Stochastic simulations in probabilistic weather prediction’

Lectures at Schools and Training Courses (1992-2016)

• 2016 (every year since 1992) – ECMWF Numerical Weather Prediction Training Course, Module on Predictability:
  • Lecture 1: ‘Sources of forecast uncertainties’
  • Lecture 2: ‘Simulation of initial uncertainties using singular vectors (SVs) and the ensemble of analyses’
  • Lecture 3: ‘Approaches to ensemble prediction: the TIGGE ensembles’
• 2015 - Training Course on ‘Probability and uncertainty: two concepts to be expanded in meteorology’, ARPA Emilia Romagna, Bologna, 9-12 Mar 2015:
  • Lecture 1: ‘Ensemble forecasting: how do we simulate initial and model uncertainties at ECMWF?’
  • Lecture 2: ‘Ensemble forecast performance: how could we measure it?’
  • Lecture 3: ‘How long is the FiSH (Forecast Skill Horizon) length?’
• 2013 – 11^th International Summer School on Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ISSAOS) on ‘Weather forecasting: from the science to the public’, L’Aquila University, 16-20 Sep 2013:
  • Lecture 1: ‘Ensemble forecasting: why is it valuable?’
  • Lecture 2: ‘Ensemble forecasting: how can we simulate initial and model uncertainties?’
  • Lecture 3: ‘Ensemble forecast skill: how could we measure it?’
  • Lecture 4: ‘Diagnostic: how can we learn from past errors?’
• 2011 – Training Course on Predictability and Ensemble Prediction, Chinese Meteorological Administration (CMA), Beijing, 21-25 Nov 2011:
  • Lecture 1: ‘ECMWF research activities’
  • Lecture 2: ‘Probabilistic prediction at ECMWF’
  • Lecture 3: ‘Simulation of initial perturbations in the ECMWF ensembles’
  • Lecture 4: ‘Predictability studies and EPS applications’
  • Lecture 5: ‘Examples of EPS and S4 ensemble forecasts’

Awards and Recognitions:

• 2022: appointed Scientific Attache' at the Italian Embassy in London
• 2022: appointed Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College Grantham Institute for Climate Change, London
• 2021: appointed member of an ‘External Review Panel’ by Environment Canada, to assess and review their research to operation process
• 2020: included in the ‘Stanford University list of the top 2% scientist in the world’ in meteorology and atmospheric sciences
• 2020: ‘2020 Bert Bolin Climate Lecture’ and ‘2020 Bert Bolin Science Seminar’, University of Stockholm Bolin Centre for Climate Research (delivered every year by a distinguished climate lecturer, to honour Prof. Bert Bolin, the first chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC);
• 2020: appointed member of the National Committee who wrote the session of the Italian National Research Plan 2021-2027 on ‘Climate change: mitigation and adaptation’
• 2019-2021: Appointed by the U.K. Meteorological Office as a member of a Science Review Panel of a UK-India project on Weather and Climate Science for Services Partnership;
• 2018-2019: Appointed member of an Independent Review Panel of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology‘s Science to Services Program;
• 2018: Appointed Full Professor in Physics with a “Chiamata Diretta per Chiara Fama’ by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (‘Settore Concorsuale 02/C1, Settore Scientifico Disciplinare FIS/06’);
• 2017: ‘Abilitazione’ to Full Professor in Physics (SC 02/C1; SSD FIS/06) and to Full Professor in Geo-physics (SC 4/A4; SSD GEO/12);
• 2017-2021: Appointed Member of the International Scientific Advisory Panel (ISAP) of the Centre for Climate Research Singapore (CCRS), by the Ministry of Environment and Water resources of Singapore;
• 2002: Buchan prize, awarded by the U.K. Royal Meteorological Society for outstanding scientific contributions in the field of probabilistic numerical weather prediction.