WP9 Coordination, Dissemination, Exploitation and International Liaison

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.

Daniel Thiemert

Daniel Thiemert

Daniel Thiemert

Role
Project Manager

Dr. Daniel Thiemert joined ECMWF in 2015 as Project Manager in the Research Department. Before joining ECMWF, he was working for the University of Reading as Senior Researcher and Project Manager, being responsible for the management and coordinator of large scale European and national projects in the area of intelligent systems. He obtained his masters in computer science from the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Reading, UK. At ECMWF he is responsible for the project management of the EU-funded projects ESCAPE-2, CONFESS, MAELSTROM, and CoCO2, as well as for managing externally funded project acquisition.

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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