Antonio ha conseguito un dottorato in Ingegneria Idraulica e Modellazione dei Sistemi Ambientali nel 2003 presso l’Università di Padova. Dal 1999 è ricercatore presso Fondazione CIMA e dal 2016 è Direttore di Programma. Ha esperienza di ricerca e operativa in idrometeorologia e meccanica dei fluidi, con particolare attenzione all’analisi statistica degli estremi e alla dinamica computazionale dei fluidi. La sua ricerca si concentra sullo sviluppo di modelli semplificati di convezione secca e umida e sullo studio delle principali fonti di incertezza nella modellazione numerica ad alta risoluzione dei processi di pioggia severa su aree orografiche complesse. Antonio è inoltre interessato all’accoppiamento degli approcci dinamici e stocastici di downscaling per la previsione delle precipitazioni a risoluzione fine e allo studio della climatologia degli eventi di pioggia severa nella regione mediterranea.
Le attività chiave degli ultimi 10 anni sono riassunte di seguito:
2017-2019: Project Coordinator of the STEAM – SaTellite Earth observation for Atmospheric Modelling (ESA, Invitation to Tender AO/1-8963/17/NL/AF, 0.3 Meuro, http://www.cimafoundation.org/cima-foundation/projects/steam.html)
2018-2019: Project Coordinator of the High Performance Computing ISCRA-B project DEEP (Data-assimilation for Extreme Event Prediction, 3.5 Mcpu hours) at CINECA
2019-2021: WP7 Weather and Climate (0.7 Meuro) leader within the H2020 project Large-scale EXecution for Industry & Society (LEXIS) to increase, within the context of Copernicus Services (e.g. ESA Sentinel data assimilation), increase the timeliness and quality of prediction and analyses. Simplify the access to such services from the cloud, in order to expand the downstream markets: emergency management, sustainable food and energy production, air quality
2020-2023: Project Coordinator of the H2020 SINOPTICA (1.0 Meuro) – Satellite-Borne and In-Situ Observations to Predict the Initiation of Convection for ATM (SINOPTICA, cordis.europa.eu/project/id/892362) dedicated to the assimilation of data for the improvement of mathematical models used in the prediction of extreme events, in order to support air traffic management
2020-2023: Leader of WP2 Application, Language, and Data Requirements (0.28 Meuro) within H2020 project dEsign enVironmEnt foR Extreme-Scale big data analytics on heterogeneous platforms (EVEREST, cordis.europa.eu/project/id/957269) to explore the portability of the WRF model in FPGA environment, as well as the execution of hydro-meteorological and air quality workflows on high performance computing facility
2019-2023: Leader of the Pilot 6.2 | GEOSS for Disasters in Urban Environment (0.2 Meuro) within the H2020 EuroGEO Showcases: Applications Powered by Europe (E-SHAPE, cordis.europa.eu/project/id/820852) to exploit different EO and in situ weather observations to improve high-resolution hydro-meteorological forecasts
2021-2025: Project Coordinator of the H2020 I-CHANGE (5.0 Meuro, cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101037193) – Individual Change of HAbits Needed for Green European transition, dedicated to promote the strong participation and creative role of citizens and civil society towards environmental protection, as well as changes in habits and the development of more sustainable standards
2022-2024: Project Coordinator of the High Performance Computing GAUSS project “Computational Hydrometeorology – with Advanced Processing Tools to Enhanced Realism” at LRZ (CHAPTER, 45 Mcpu hours)
2024-2026 Project Coordinator of the ESA Science Study for Hydroterra+ Earth Explorer Candidate 12 (0.7 Meuro, https://www.cimafoundation.org/en/project/hydroterra/)
Mission Advisory Group (MAG) of Earth Explorer 10 Hydroterra-ESA (2018-2020)
Mission Advisory Group (MAG) of Earth Explorer 12 Hydroterra+-ESA (2024-2026)
He is author and co-author of 85 papers on peer-reviewed journals.