WP9 Coordination, Dissemination, Exploitation and International Liaison

Tanya Warnaars

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Tanya Warnaars

Role
Project Manager

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Dr. Tanya Warnaars (female), External Project Coordinator at the ECMWF. She is a Scientific Project Manager and Knowledge Exchange specialist with background in Ecohydrology. She is currently responsible for coordinating externally funded research projects across ECMWF and provides project management and coordination support to several projects, founded by Horizon Europe and H2020. Previously she worked as a Science Officer at the European Science Foundation and holds a Fellowship at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology where she worked 2007-2019. She has coordinated numerous interdisciplinary international projects, working to promote the use of science in decision-making. Further to coordination, her role included working to promote research-into-use by networking with a wide range of users as well as drafting articles, and other web-based communications. Coupling her project management skills with a background in environmental sciences, she holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from University of Minnesota (USA), and is qualified Prince2® management practitioner.

Gianpaolo Balsamo

Gianpaolo Balsamo

Gianpaolo Balsamo

Role
Project Deputy Coordinator

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.

Richard Engelen

Richard Engelen

Richard Engelen

Role
Project Coordinator

Dr. Richard Engelen is Deputy Director of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service and an expert in remote sensing and data assimilation of atmospheric composition. He obtained his PhD at Utrecht University before working for six years at Colorado State University. Since 2002, he has worked at ECMWF on various projects related to atmospheric composition modelling and data assimilation. As such, he has been part of the development and implementation of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service from the beginning. He is an internationally respected scientist on global atmospheric composition issues and has around 50 international peer reviewed publications to his credit. He is a member of several international scientific and advisory committees, including for the European Commission and the European Space Agency.

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