Speakers

Fabio Madonna is Associate Professor at the Department of Physics “E.R. Caianiello” of the University of Salerno, Italy. He is also Associate Researcher at the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA) of the Italian National Research Council, Institute of Integrated Methodologies for Earth Observation (CNR-IMIOT). His research focuses on atmospheric observations, ground-based remote sensing, upper-air measurements, observational data analysis, measurement uncertainty, and the validation of models and satellite data records. He has contributed extensively to the development, homogenisation and quality assessment of atmospheric datasets. He is one of the co-chair of the GCOS Reference Upper-Air Network (GRUAN) and has coordinated and led work packages in several national and international projects within the C3S, FP7 and H2020 programs. For a decade, he has also served as Scientific and Service Manager for the Copernicus Climate Change Service activities on in situ baseline and reference measurements. He is a member of the CIPM Sectorial Task Group on Climate Change and Environment. He is part of the Management Committee of the EU COST action Climate Reference Instruments and Measurements (Upper-air, Column and Near Surface) (CRIM). He is the author of more than 80 peer-reviewed publications.