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Cosimo Solidoro

Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

ORCID iD 0000-0003-2354-4302
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Oceanographer and marine ecologist, currently director of the OGS Oceanography department, professor of Ocean Models and Data Analyitics at the University of Trieste, member of the PhD school in Life Science (Trieste) and of the national PhD school on Earth Observations (Rome Sapienza), president of the International Society of Ecological Modelling - European Chapter, Italian National Representative of IGBP program Integrating Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecological Research, IMBER, member of the European Marine Board, of the executive board of the European consortium Euromarine, and of several advisory boards and committees for Italian ministry of research and regional authorities. Scientific Consultant for International Centre for Theoretical Physic ICTP.

Research activity focuses mainly on coastal areas, lagoons, and open sea ecosystems, ranging from the impacts of climate change, anthropogenic forcing, and natural phenomena on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning to quantitative approaches to sustainabilities, complex system theory, and integrated ecological-socio-economical systems.


Former coordinator of national (e.g. ICCC, SOSTEMITS, ACID.IT, CORILA313, VENEZIA2021) and international projects (e.g. SHAREMED, ECOMADR)
currently involved in the scientific or management boards of Extended Partnership RETURN (spoke leader), the National Center Future Biodiverity (acitvity leader), innovation ecosystem INEST, scientific infrastructure ITINERIS.

Prigogine junior medal 2006, and co-recipient of Denni medals 2008.
Member editorial board of Ecological Modelling, Ecological Informatics, Frontiers in Marine Science, Bulletin of Oceanography.
He has published over 200 research papers, served as a contributing author to high level documents and science plans for italian ministries, regional authorities, and for the European Marine Board. He has been a Lead Author in the first IPBES assessment fo Europe and Central Asia, and an expert in the scoping meeting for the second IPBER global assessment.

Postdoc positions at Milan Technical School (politecnico di Milano) and Ca Foscari University
Visiting scientist or research fellow at Berkeley University CAL (1993), the International Institute for Applied System Analysis IIASA (1994),
the Danish Techinical University DTU (2008), the Plymouth Marine Laboratory PML (2012)

Employment

  • Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale senior resaerch
    1997 - Present

Education

  • Ca' Foscari University of Venice dottorato di ricerca in Scienze Chimiche
    1990 - 1993
  • Ca' Foscari University of Venice laura in chimica industriale
    1983 - 1990

Projects & Funding

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Publications (156)