Pier Luigi Vidale is Professor of Climate System Science and co-leads the joint NCAS-Met Office global High Resolution Climate Modelling programme.

 

Since a major UK-Japan collaboration in 2004-2007, Pier Luigi has played a world-leading role in high resolution climate modelling and understanding the role of meso-scale processes in the global climate system. He was the Scientific Coordinator of the EU’s H2020 PRIMAVERA (defining HighResMIP for CMIP6), currently co-leads the EU’s Horizon Europe EERIE (defining HighResMIP2 for CMIP7).

 

Pier Luigi is actively involved in the development of km-scale global models, e.g. as investigator in the EU’s H2020 NextGEMS project, and in collaborations with the Met Office. Pier-Luigi is co-Chair of the World Climate Research Programme’s Digital Earths Lighthouse Activity, aiming to define the nature and purpose of Digital Twins for climate, and is the Director of Science Collaboration in the University of Reading’s £30M AFESP programme.