CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DATA

o NAME: Marco Turco
o PLACE OF BIRTH: Cuneo (Italy)
o YEAR OF BIRTH: 1978


WORK EXPERIENCE

 2021 - to date: research contract at the Regional Atmospheric Modeling (MAR) Group, Department of Physics, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain. Funds:
          o Ramón y Cajal Contract 

 2019 - 2021: research contract at the Regional Atmospheric Modeling (MAR) Group, Department of Physics, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain. Funds:
          o Climate monitoring and PREDictions to forecast global FIRE activity (PREDFIRE project)

  2018 - 2019: research contract at the Earth Sciences - Earth System Services Group, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain. Field:
          o Application of seasonal forecasting and monitoring products to agriculture

  2017 - 2018: research contract at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Field:
          o Seasonal Forecast, drought, forest fires, regional climate change
  
  2016: research contract at Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), Barcelona, Spain. Field:
          o Application of seasonal forecasting to crop yield estimates

  2015 - 2016: research contract at the Institute of Biometeorology (IBIMET), National Research Council (CNR), Florence, Italy. Field:
          o Development of regionalized climate change scenarios: stochastic generation of multi-site synthetic climatic data 

  2014 - 2015: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Turin, Italy. Field:
          o Regional climate downscaling
          o Climate change impacts on ecosystems           
          o Analysis of climate data

  2012 - 2013: research contract at the CMCC- Impacts on Soil and Coast (ISC) division. Field: 
          o Statistical downscaling in climate change conditions
          o Analysis of climate data
          o Evaluation of Regional Climate Impacts 

  2009 - 2011: research contract at the University of Barcelona; Department of Astronomy & Meteorology, group GAMA (Meteorological Hazards Analysis Team). Field:
          o Statistical downscaling in climate change conditions
          o Analysis of climate data
          o Evaluation of Regional Climate Model (RCMs)

  2002 - 2009: meteorologist at the Weather Service of Environmental Agency of Piedmont (ARPA Piemonte).  Field:
          o Operational forecast activity
          o Development of a meteo-hydrological system for civil protection purposes
          o Verification of the meteorological models


EDUCATION

Ph.D.: Physics

2009 - 2012
University of Barcelona, Spain

Ph.D., Physics, 25 July 2012

• Thesis title: Climate change in a Mediterranean environment (Catalonia): precipitation extremes, regional scenarios, impacts on forest fires 
• Final mark: summa cum laude 
• Supervisor: Prof. Maria Carmen Llasat

MS: Physics

1997-2002
University of Turin, Italy

M.S., Physics, 20 April 2002

• Topic: Climate variability and glacier snout fluctuations in the western Alps
• Final mark: 110/110 
• Supervisors: Prof. Augusto Biancotti, Prof. Arnaldo Longhetto and Dr. Antonello Provenzale 

1997
High school diploma obtained in 1997 with note 60/60.


Courses/summer schools/etc.

• June 2013. ISAC-CNR Course XXI. Climate Change and the Mountain Environment. Valsavarenche, Valle d'Aosta (Italy).
• June 2011. ISAC-CNR Course XIX. Regional Climate Dynamics in the Mediterranean and beyond: An Earth System perspective. Valsavarenche, Valle d'Aosta (Italy).
• January 2009. AINEVA: corso per osservatore nivologico - livello 2, modulo. Torino (Italy)
• November 2008. Start up delle dotazioni hardware e software del Sistema Nazionale dei centri Funzionali, CAE S.p.a. Bologna (Italy)
• October 2008. Corso integrato GRASS-QuantumGIS. Torino (Italy)
• April 2008. ECMWF Meteorological Training Course on "Predictability, Diagnostics and Extended Range Forecasting". ECMWF, Reading (UK)
• July 2005. Atmospheric Convection: Research and operational Forecasting Aspects. Udine (Italy)
• November 2005. Specialized Business Language Training (Bulletin, briefing skills). Torino (Italy)
• April 2005. Specialized Business Language Training (natural risks, nivology and meteorology).
• December 2004. Specialized Business Language Training (Bulletin, briefing skills). Torino (Italy)
• September 2004. Fortran 90 per il calcolo scientifico intensivo. Torino (Italy)
• April 2003. ECMWF Meteorological Training Course on "Use and Interpretation of ECMWF Products". ECMWF, Reading (UK)
• August 2002. Summer school on Mountain Meteorology on "Modification of Airflow by Mountains". Trento (Italy)

AWARDS

• Spanish Fellowship Award Juan de la Cierva (grant code: IJCI-2015-26953) 2017-2018
• MedCLIVAR young scientific award 2014
• Travel Award: European Union, COST Action Value FP1204. Grant for a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) to the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. May 2015
• Travel Award: European Union, COST Action Value ES1102. Grant for a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) to the University of Cantabria, Spain. Nov 2013

TEACHING

• 2017. Co-supervision of "Trabajo fin de Grado TFG) at the University of Murcia (Spain). Juan José Rosa Cánovas, Variabilidad climática y cambio climático. Estudio de las proyecciones de futuro en sequía e incendios en la zona mediterránea, together with Prof. Juan Pedro Montávez Gómez
• 2014-2015. Co-supervision of master thesis at the University of Turin (Italy). Jacopo Balocco, Modeling climate influence on Alpine glacier mass balance, together with Dr. A. Provenzale

• 2016-present. Co-supervision of PhD thesis at the Department of Astronomy and Meteorology, University of Barcelona (Spain). Maria Cortès Simó, “Analysis of extreme precipitation and flooding and their future projections”  together with Prof. M. C. Llasat 
• 2009-2010. Co-supervision of master thesis at the Department of Astronomy and Meteorology, University of Barcelona (Spain). Estíbaliz Gascón, “La galerna del Cantábrico. Aplicación al método de los análogos” (Galerna wind in Cantabria region. Application of the analogs method) together with Prof. M. C. Llasat
• Lecture on meteorology at the HYDROAID course at the ITCILO – International Training Center ILO, Turin, Italy, 2007.
• Lectures on meteorology at the national DPC-AINEVA avalanches course held in Rieti, Italy, 2007. 
• Lectures on meteorology at the regional AINEVA avalanches courses (Piemonte, Italy) from 2005 to 2008. 
• Lectures on meteorology at the regional AINEVA avalanches courses (Piemonte, Italy) from 2005 to 2008. 
• Lectures on meteorology at the regional FORMONT courses (Piemonte, Italy) in 2007 and 2008. 
• Lectures on meteorology at the CAI (Club Alpino Italiano) courses (Mondoví, Italy) from 2004 to 2009. 

LANGUAGES

• Italian   : mother tongue
• English  : good knowledge
• Spanish : good knowledge
• French   : I speak some French

SERVICE

Associated editor of Geosciences https://www.mdpi.com/journal/geosciences

Editor of the MedCLIVAR newsletter

Review Editor in Fire and Forests, part of the journal(s) Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.

Nominated expert reviewer by the Spanish National Research Agency

​Nominated expert for REPRISE-Register of Expert Peer-Reviewers for Italian Scientific Evaluation

Nominated expert to evaluate proposal in the frame of PRIMA (Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area) calls for projects


Peer-Reviewer for:
Environmental Research Letter, Climate Dynamics, Climatic Change, Remote Sensing, International Journal of Climatology, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Advances in Meteorology, Advances in Geosciences, PLOS ONE, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, ​iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, Earth Sciences Research Journal​, Agricultural Water Management, Ecosystems, Journal of Hydrology, Climate Services, Environmental Research Communications

Co-Convener of the session Downscaling approaches (Conveners: J. Carreau, B. Hingray, M. Turco, J-P. Vidal), MISTRALS international meta-program workshop on Climate change impacts in the Mediterranean region, 16-18 Oct 2017, Montpellier, France. 

Co-Convener of the session 1.4 - Climate change: impacts on natural resources and hazards (Conveners: Maurizio Polemio, Marta Chiarle, and Marco Turco), IAEG XII CONGRESS Engineering Geology for Society and Territory, 15-18 Sep 2014, Turin, Italy

Convener of the session 1.7 - Downscaling Climate Information (Conveners: Marco Turco, Maria del Carmen LLasat Botija, Jost von Hardenberg), IAEG XII CONGRESS Engineering Geology for Society and Territory, 15-18 Sep 2014, Turin, Italy

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COLLABORATIONS

Member of:

• MedCLIVAR (Mediterranean CLImate VARriability and predictability) 
• MedECC (Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change), an open and independent international scientific expert network
• SISEF (Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology)

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