Alberto Maurizi Curriculum Vitae
personal data
- first name: Alberto
- last name: Maurizi
- birth date: 1965-01-28
- birth place: Macerata, Italy
- contact:
- address: via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
- work phone: +39 051 639 9615
- email: a.maurizi@isac.cnr.it
research interests
- turbulent boundary layer structure (laboratory experiments, field data analysis, numerical modelling)
- dispersion in turbulent flows (Lagrangian stochastic modelling, theoretical investigations, data analysis)
- turbulence in the environment (analysis and modelling of dispersion in geophysical flows - atmosphere and ocean)
- regional atmospheric dynamics and chemistry (air quality) modelling
present position and activities
Permanent researcher, since October 2001, at Italian National Research
Council (CNR), Istitute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC),
Dynamic Meteorology Division
- activities, projects and memberships
- PI for ISAC-CNR in EU FP6 Project GEMS (Global and regional Earth-system (Atmosphere) Monitoring using Satellite and in-situ data)
- PI for ISAC-CNR inEU FP7 Project MACC (Monitoring Atmospheric Compisition and Climate)
- PI for ISAC-CNR in the Special Project "Impatto degli 'hot spot' sui cambiamenti climatici a scala regionale" financed in the frame of the activities of the Centro Euro Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)
- participation in EU FP7 Project CityZen (megaCity Zoom for the ENvironment)
- coordinator of the BOLCHEM model development
- WorkGroup co-Leader in COST action ES1004 "European Framework for Online Integrated Air Quality and Meteorology Modelling"
international collaborations
- september 2000, University of Surrey, UK (EU FP4 Access to Large Scale Facility): experimental investigation on high order moments in a turbulent boundary layer.
- march, 2004, Universidade do Porto, Portugal (CNR, grant): large eddy simulation of inertia particles in turbulent flows.
- june, 2006, UPC, Barcelona (CNR, grant): application of kinematic simulations and lagrangian stochastic models to the oil spill problem
- semptember, 2006, UPC, Barcelona (CNR, grant): application of kinematic simulations and lagrangian stochastic models to the oil spill problem (continuation)
- since march 2010 (ongoing), Dept Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Addis Abeba University: setup of a weather forecast system over Ethiopia
teaching
- Lecturer at the International Summer School on Turbulent Diffusion, Barcelona 2006: Formulation of Lagrangian stochastic models for geophysical turbulent flows
- Lecturer at the International Summer School on Turbulent Diffusion, Barcelona 2007:
- Diffusion, mixing, dispersion
- Lagrangian stochastic models for turbulent dispersion
- Lecturer at Basilicata University PhD annual meeting, 1997: "turbulence and dispersion in atmospheric flows"
- supervisor of several graduate/master/PhD thesys on turbulence and dispersion
past research position
- 1998-1999, CNR-IFA: atmospheric boundary layer in the Artic region (ARTIST EC Project)
- 2000-2001, CNR-ISAO: turbulent dispersion processes modelling and atmosferic turbulent boundary-layer studies.
education
- 1992: laurea (degree+master) in physics, University of Bologna, Italy
- 1993-1994, CNR fellowship in the frame of Italian Antartic Studies Programme: data analysis of katabatic bounday layer
- 1995-1996, CNR fellowship: data analysis of flows over simple orography
- 1996, HCM EC grant, Nantes, France: numerical simulations of turbulent boundary layer of simple orographic shapes
- 1996, HCM EC grant Porto, Portugal: numerical simulations of atmospheric boundary layer over a mountaineous region