Zampieri Lorenzo

Lorenzo Zampieri is a researcher at the CMCC Foundation working on improving numerical models for polar regions to understand the evolution of the climate system from the weather to climate time scales. His focus is mainly on the sea ice system, and, during his career, he focused on problems related to sea ice prediction and predictability, thermodynamic parameterization development, reanalyses evaluation and correction, and sea ice geoengineering strategies. After completing his Ph.D. at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Jung and Dr. Helge Goessling, he did a postdoc at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, collaborating with Dr. Marika Holland. During his time at NCAR, Lorenzo worked for the Multiscale Machine Learning In Coupled Earth System Modeling project (M²LInES), intending to improve the representation of the winter heat conduction through the sea system with machine learning and the novel observational dataset from the MOSAiC expedition.

At the CMCC, Lorenzo works on developing a new sea ice model on unstructured meshes to integrate within the CMCC modeling infrastructure in the context of operational marine forecasting and climate simulations.