PREFERRED JOBSTUDIES APPLIED FOR Spatial data analyst, hydrological modeler WORK EXPERIENCE August 2014 Present Scientific Officer IESInstitute for Environment and Sustainability of Joint Research Centre DG JRC European Commission Ispra Via Fermi 272221027Varese ITALY Project name Mean Annual Precipitation for frequency analysis of climate variables Quantifying the spatial variability of the Mean Annual Precipitation is crucial for water resource management in developing countries. Precipitation regulates hydrological and agricultural process, and an accurate estimate of the Mean Annual Precipitation is of crucial importance for different disciplines including among others hydrological modelling, agricultural resources management and meteorology. I developed part of REFRANCV, a software for the statistical analysis of extreme precipitation events, in the framework of the water for development initiative httpwww.aquaknow.net. REFRANCV is able to process time series of precipitation data from ground meteorological stations, and to generate return period maps and other information needed for mitigation strategies of natural hazards. Project name Heat waves in Africa and South America 19812015, observations and reanalysis The purpose of this projectis to show the extreme temperature regime of heat waves across AfricaSouth America over recent years 19812015. Heat waves have been quantified using the Heat Wave Magnitude Index daily HWMId, which merges the duration and the intensity of extreme temperature events into a single numerical index. The HWMId enables a comparison between heat waves with different timing and location, and it has been applied to maximum and minimum temperature records. The time series used in this project have been derived from 1 observations from the Global Summary of the Day GSOD and 2 reanalysis data from ERAINTERIM. GSOD observations are able to capture heat wave events at finer spatial scales, but show a sparse coverage. Conversely, reanalysis dataset, although the coarser spatial resolution, displays a homogeneous coverage. The analysis show an increasing numbers of heat waves of both maxima and minima temperatures in the last decades. Business or sector Research. Hydrology. Remote Sensing. Capacity building. May 2011 May 2014 Scientific Officer IESInstitute for Environment and Sustainability of Joint Research Centre DG JRC European Commission Ispra Via Fermi 272221027Varese ITALY Project title Development of indicator from global terrestrial Essential Climate Variables. Within the Climate Risk Management Unit, I provided scientific and technical support to Earth Observation activities. Specifically, my tasks included the development of algorithm to retrieve biophysical quantities such as Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation from satellite remotesensing and analysis of satellite imagery for drought monitoring. The Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation FAPAR is an Essential Climate Variable ECV identified by the Global Climate Observing System httpwww.fao.orggtosdocECVsT10T10.pdf that can be monitored from space. This variable can monitor the states and changes in the photosynthetic activity of vegetation. FAPAR is useful to quantify terrestrial vegetation productivity, potential yields and production, forest degradation, land cover, and carbon cycling. I also worked on EUs droughts operational assessment using the FAPAR products, through the European Drought Observatory EDO, httpedo.jrc.ec.europa.eu and CLIMATEADAPT httpclimateadapt.eea.europa.eu projects. Business or sector Research. Hydrology. Remote Sensing. Capacity building. February 2011 April 2011 Postdoctoral scientist Prof. Fabio Castelli. University of Florence, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Via santa Marta 350100Firenze ITALY Distributed hydrological modeling for realtime flood forecasting. IPPC climate change scenario modeling. Teaching assistant for GIS, hydrology and water management. Business or sector Research. Water resource management. January 2008 January 2011 PhD student Prof. Fabio Castelli. University of Florence, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Via santa Marta 350100Firenze ITALY Distributed hydrological modeling for realtime flood forecasting. Watershed planning. Remote sensing of vegetation and soil moisture. Dynamic data assimilation in large nonlinear problems. Developing new algorithms for the Italian Spatial Agency OPERA projectcivil protection from floodfor CosmoSkyMed mission. Teaching assistant for river restoration. Business or sector Research. Earth Observation. EDUCATION AND TRAINING July 2012 August 2012 ESA summer school Monitoring of the Earth System European Spatial Agency ESA ESRIN Frascati Italy Courses include lectures covering issues related to Remote Sensing, Earth System Modelling and Data Assimilation. February 2010June 2010 MIT visiting student Parsons Lab for environmental science and engineering, MIT CambridgeUS I spent a period of 6 months at MIT undertaking research which was complementary to the Doctoral project at my home university. I studied at MIT as a Visiting Research Student via an established research collaborationexchange. I benefit from undertaking research in two environments and this provided different insights and perspectives within my research on hydrology and climate change projection on water resources for Arno river basin central Italy. June 2009 November 2009 EU traineeship IESInstitute for Environment and Sustainability of Joint Research Centre DG JRC European Commission Ispra Via Fermi 272221027Varese ITALY Mapping of changes in forest resources for EU policies related to global environmental and forestry issues. Contribute to verification and validation of Remotely sensed data with groundbased measurements. July 2008 Summer School on Fluid Mechanics Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Trento ITALY Fundamentals of ideal fluid flows, boundary layers, low Re flows, vorticity dynamics stability theory, geophysical fluids. September 2005 July 2007 Masters of Science in Environmental Engineering MS engineering laurea specialistica 110110 cum laude Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence ITALY Dissertation Water management for the restoration of Giudeas dam. Environmental Impact Assessment, definition of a methodology to quantify the environmental flow for a dam near Florence, hydrologic and hydraulic modelling of site, project engineering of hydraulic infrastructures with the state of the art technology. September 2002 July 2005 Bachelors of Science in Environmental Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence ITALY Dissertations title Excavation and deposit in transcritical stream. Fluid Mechanics, topographic and granulometric surveys for hydraulic modelling purposes and water resource management. PERSONAL SKILLS English Full professional proficiency Italian Native or bilingual proficiency French Limited working proficiency Computer skills Operating Systems excellent knowledge of Linux Red Hat, OpenSuse, Ubuntu and Windows 982000XP. Office applications Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox. GIS excellent knowledge of Qgis, ArcGis, ERDAS, gdal libraries, Google Earth Engine. Numerical elaborations excellent knowledge of MATLAB, R, Python, FORTRAN, C, C and ENVIIDL. CAD excellent knowledge of AutoCAD. Hydraulics elaborations knowledge of HecRAS, HecHMS and related GEO extensions, EPAnet. Working experiences in C C . Exploring ENVI diploma. IDL diplomas Exelis course certificates Other skills Ancient Latin, Ancient Greek, Half marathon, freeclimbing. Driving licence B EU driving licence ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Latest publications Ceccherini, Gobron 2012 Spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation dynamics for european land use and ecosystems over 19982011. Proceedings of the Sentinel3 OLCISLSTR and MERISAATSR workshop SP711. Published by Esa Communications. Editor L. Ouwehand. ISBN 9789290922759 ISSN 1609042X Ceccherini, Gobron and Robustelli 2013 Harmonization of Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation FAPAR from SeaViewingWide FieldofView Sensor SeaWiFS and Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer Instrument MERIS. Remote Sens. 5, 33573376. doi10.3390rs5073357 Ceccherini, Gobron and Migliavacca 2014 On the response of European Vegetation Phenology to Hydroclimatic Anomalies. Remote Sens. 6, no. 4 31433169. doi10.3390rs6043143. Ceccherini, Gobron Migliavacca and Robustelli 2013 LongTerm Measurements of Plant Phenology Over Europe Derived from SeaWiFS and MERIS. Proceedings of the European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium SP722. Published by Esa Communications. Editor L. Ouwehand Ceccherini, Castelli, Entekhabi 2013 Basinscale vegetation response to drought in changing climate projections. Coping with Extreme Events Under the Threat of Global Warming session of CNR Florisa Meroni Memorial Conference, Assisi. Migliavacca, Reichstein, Ceccherini et al. 2014 Influence of spring phenology on seasonal patterns of ecosystem respirationLongTerm Measurements of Plant Phenology Over Europe Derived from SeaWiFS and MERIS. Global Change Biology. doi 10.1111gcb.12671 Ceccherini, Ametzoy and Carmona Moreno 2015 Highresolution precipitation datasets in South America and West Africa based on satellitederived rainfall, Enhanced Vegetation Index and Digital Elevation Model. Remote Sens. 2015, 7, 64546488. doi10.3390rs70506454. HojasGascon, L., Belward, A., Eva, H., Ceccherini, G., Hagolle, O., Garcia, J., and Cerutti, P. 2015 Potential improvement for forest cover and forest degradation mapping with the forthcoming Sentinel2 program, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XL7W3, 417423, doi10.5194isprsarchivesXL7W34172015. Widlowski, J.L., Ceccherini,. G. et al. 2015 The fourth phase of the radiative transfer model intercomparison RAMI exercise Actual canopy scenarios and conformity testing. Remote Sensing of the Environment httpdx.doi.org10.1016j.rse.2015.08.016 Ceccherini, G., Russo, S., Ameztoy, I., Romero, C. P., and CarmonaMoreno, C. Magnitude and frequency of heat and cold waves in recent decades the case of South America, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 3, 73797409, doi10.5194nhessd373792015, 2015.