Dr. Edoardo Bucchignani received his Eng. Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1992 and Ph.D in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1997 from the University of Roma “La Sapienza”. Since 1994, he has been a research scientist at the Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), and is currently the Head of the Meteorology Lab. From 2008 to 2020, he was also a research scientist at the CMCC Foundation (team leader of the Regional Models research unit). He has experience in computational fluid dynamics, the theory of dissipative nonlinear systems and chaos, and the implementation of fast algorithms for CFD on supercomputers. His current research activities are related to the study and applications of regional climate models for the development of long-term projections, and the study of limited-area numerical weather prediction models. He is a member of the European consortium COSMO (Consortium for Small-scale Modelling) for the development of the operational meteorological model COSMO LM, and of the CLM Community for the development of the COSMO-CLM model. He has participated in several European projects, and is currently involved in many national and international research projects concerning meteorology, climate change and the impact of impact change, and the evaluation of severe weather events. He is the author of more than 60 scientific papers in referenced international journals on these topics. He is a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Meteorology.