Gianpaolo Balsamo

Gianpaolo Balsamo, Ph.D., Prof., has coordinated the CO2 Human Emission project, precursor of CoCO2, and he supports the CoCO2 project coordination as Deputy Project Leader. He has a Ph.D. and is a professor in Earth system science. He joined ECMWF in 2006 and he is now a principal scientist and team leader with his research focusing on Earth system coupled process modelling within the Integrated Forecasting System of ECMWF. He had previously worked for Environment & Climate Change Canada in Montréal, and for Météo-France in Toulouse, specialising on data assimilation of Earth Observations.