Curriculum
Since Dec 2019: Senior Scientist
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), Trieste, Italy
2018 – 2019: Junior Scientist
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), Trieste, Italy
2013 – 2018: Junior Scientist
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), Bologna, Italy
2009 – 2013: Post-doc. fellow
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), Bologna, Italy
2006 – 2009: joint Ph.D. (mention: excellent)
Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement (LGGE, CNRS), Grenoble, France
Department of Marine Geosciences - Stockholm University, Sweden
2022 Feb- March PNRA 37th Italian Expedition to Antarctica: George V Land margin - Adelie
Land margin - Geophysical and oceanic campaign, Vessel: Laura Bassi, projects: PNRA COLLAPSE (PI: Laura De Santis, OGS)
Methods: multibeam, subbottom, reflection seismic, XBTs, CDTs, L-ADCP
2017 Jan - Mar PNRA 32th Italian Expedition to Antarctica: Ross Sea
Geophysical and oceanic campaign, Vessel: OGS Explora, Party Chief: R. Codiglia (OGS), projects: PNRA WHISPERS, PNRA GLEVORS
Methods: multibeam, subbottom, reflection seismic, XBTs, CDTs, L-ADCP
Associate Editor - The Cryosphere (Copernicus Publications)
Editorial Board - Current Climate Change Reports (Springer Nature Publications)
3-4 April 2027 Long-term Ice Sheet Modeling workshop (Vienna, A) - Main organiser (SCAR INSTANT) - https://sites.google.com/view/long-term-ice-workshop
Feb 14, 2026 - SCAR INSTANT Workshop - CLiC OSC (WCRP) - Main organiser
2024 - 2026 WCRP CLiC Open Science Conference (Feb. 2026, Wellington) - Organising Committee (https://clic2026.com/about-clic-osc/leadership/)
2023-2024 SCAR Open Science Conference 2024 - Organising Committee.
11-14 Sept. 2023 SCAR INSTANT International Conference - Trieste (Italy): main organiser with Tim Naish - www.instant2023.org
2021 - 2022 SCAR Open Science Conference 2022 “Antarctica in a Changing World”
Organising Committee (https://scar2022.org/isoc/)
4-8 May 2020 Co-convener of EGU session: CR1.2 - The Antarctic Ice Sheet: past,
present and future contributions towards global sea level
3-7 Aug. 2020 SCAR OSC 2020: Convener of a mini Symposium: “Past to future interplay
between ice sheets in the world and regional to global teleconnections”
14-18 Giu 2018 Convener of side meeting: "Ice-Sheet-Ocean-Interactions: Past and Present
Processes in Models and Observation", POLAR 2018, SCAR OSC, Davos (Swizerland)
10 Ott. 2017 Polar environment and Polar sciences: processes beyond the timewindows.
- Organisers: A. Bergamasco (CNR), F. Colleoni (CMCC), L. De Santis (OGS), Italy. website
10-15 Sett. 2017 Side event "Can we constrain and reconstruct the extent of
the past and future ice shelves?", PAIS international conference, Trieste (Italy)
04-08 Sett. 2017 Co-convener of session: "The cryosphere and its interactions with
meteorology and the climate system" - European Meteorology Society annual meeting.
17-18 Ott. 2016 Ocean-Ice interactions workshop - main organiser - Centro Euro
Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, October 2016, Bologna, Italy. website
2025 Antarctic Parliamentarians Assembly, 08-09 December, Wellington Parliament, New Zealand. Invited Speaker.
2025 COP30 - Belem (Brazil), talk: Antarctic tipping points - Cryosphere Pavilion, Wednesday 19th December; speaker at WCRP-IPCC event at Science for Action pavilion, Saturday 15th December; speaker at International Science Council event, Saturday 15th December.
2025 PALSEA Conference (Venice, Italy) - Keynote Lecture “Interactions between ice sheet-ocean-atmosphere and solid earth: a long-term perspective”.
2025 EGU 2025 Assembly - Keynote Lecture “East Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution”. (https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-3689.html)
2025 Ambition on Melting Ice annual meeting, March 24th - United Nation (Chilean mission) -New York (USA) - Invited as a SCAR representative by ICCI.
2025 Giornata Mondiale dell’acqua e dei Ghiacciai - “L’evoluzione delle calotte polari” - Accademia dei Lincei (Rome, Italy), March 21st.
2024 COP29 - Baku (Azerbaijan), “Sea Level rise: are you sure you know everything about it?” At the Cryosphere Pavilion (invited by ICCI), and high-level round tables.
2024 Congreso futuro, Santiago del Chile, 15-20 January - “Role of the Antarctic ice
sheet in global mean sea level rise and the future of the planet.”
2023 COP28 - Dubai (Arabic Emirates), 30 Nov - 12 Dec.- “Earth’s past is our future -
uncertain contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet to high-impact low-probability multi- meter sea level rise”.
2023 ICES – Nov. 24 -”The role of the Antarctic ice sheet in the regional to global climate system”.
2023 One Planet Summit – Paris, Nov. 8-10. “An overview on the role of the Antarctic ice sheet in past to future sea level changes”.
2022 COP27 - Sharm-El-Sheikh (Egypt), 6-18 Nov.. SCAR_ICCI sponsored events “Earth’s past is future - irreversible sea level rise from Antarctica”.
2021 COP26, Glasgow (UK), 31 oct. - 12 Nov- SCAR-ICCI sponsored events “Antarctic ice sheet instabilities: short-term trigger, long-term effect - Bridging the past with the future”.
2019 ISAES - Invited keynote: “Ice-sheet-ocean-bathymetry interactions in the Hillary
Canyon area through time (Eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica): regional to global
implications?” (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7997445f; https://scar.org/~documents/route%3A/download/5339)
2019 EGU - U3 Symposium - Past climate tipping points and climate transitions in Earth
history (https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/orals/30246)
2018 LSCE (CNRS), Interactions between ice dynamics, sub-shelf melting and continental margins,
24 January, Paris (France)
2017 SCAR PAIS conference: Past Unknown for an unknown future, plenary keynote,
September 2017, Trieste (Italy).
2015 University of Pavia, Climate models: limits and possibilities. Application to the geological evidence. Dpt
Geology.
2013 Ice-sheet - Climate coupling workshop, Reading - invited talk
2012 Past Interglacials PAGES workshop, Cambridge - invited poster
2009 LSCE, Paris, On the Late Saalian Glaciation, a climate modelling study, LSCE, Paris (France),
2008 French Ambassy in Stockholm, Glaciations of the Late Quaternary, French Scientific meeting, Sweden
2008 French Ambassy, Stockholm, Debate on glacier retreat, Sweden
2008 University of Bergen, "Influence of proglacial lakes, dust deposition and vegetation on the surface mass
balance of the Late Saalian ice sheet (140 kyrs BP)," Bergen
(Norway)
2016 (Feb.) NCAR, Boulder (Co, USA). Collaboration: B. Otto-Bliesner
2015 (Oct.) Stockholm University, Stockholm (Sweden). Collaboration: N. Kirchner
2014 (Nov.) Stockholm University, Stockholm (Sweden). Collaboration: N. Kirchner
2012 (Oct.) NCAR, Boulder (Co, USA). Collaboration: B. Otto-Bliesner - N. Rosembloom
2012 (Jan.) Department of Geosciences, Princeton University. Collaboration: G. Philander
2011 (May) Department of Geography, University of Swansea (UK). Collaboration: I. C. Rutt
2010 (Feb.) NCAR, Boulder (Co, USA). Collaboration: B. Otto-Bliesner - N. Rosembloom
2008 (Feb.) Department of Geosciences, Bergen University (Norway). Collaboration: J-I. Svendsen