Holds a PhD in physical oceanography from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC; Bologna) on data assimilation (DA) in regional and coastal scales using variational and ensemble DA techniques for observation network design. Had post-doc at Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC; Bergen) on ensemble-based data assimilation techniques for adaptive moving mesh models with applications on Arctic sea-ice. Visited NCAR within the visitor programme of CISL to contribute DART data assimilation research testbed. At CMCC leads regional ocean data assimilation research unit for the Southern European Seas. Took part in several European projects including SESAME, MyOcean and JERICO as well as DASIM and REDDA in collaboration with US. Currently, production unit resposible of the CMEMS Black Sea MFC physics component. A member of the OceanPredict data assimilation task team (DA-TT) and OceanGliders steering team. Coordinates the data asimilation course at the Università di Bologna FRONTIERS PhD Programme.

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