Andrea Toreti

Andrea Toreti is a senior scientist at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre. Andrea is the coordinator of the European and global drought observatory of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service. He graduated in Mathematics at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ (Italy) and got a PhD in Climate Sciences at the University of Bern (Switzerland). His research focuses on climate extremes; climate variability; climate change including impacts and adaptation. He has published more than 70 papers on these topics. Andrea is currently a member of the MedCLIVAR steering committee, co-chair of the modelling group of the ITU-WMO-UNEP Focus Group on AI for natural disaster management, and co-chair of the EU ad-hoc Task Group on water scarcity and drought.