AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

1982: IBM Research Fellowship, Rome, Italy

1992: Nominated for the NCAR Outstanding Publication Award

2002: Elected as vice chair of the IPCC WGI Bureau

2004: Included in the ISI Highly Cited Researcher list for Geosciences (top 0.5% of the most highly cited scientists in Geosciences during the previous 20 years)

2007: Co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize to IPCC as Vice-chair of Working Group I.

Research featured in:

Science, 288, p. 2113, 23 June 2000; Science, 294, p. 765, 26 October 2001; Nature, 425, p. 338-339, 25 September 2003; Nature, 428, p. 593, 8 April 2004; Nature, 436, p. 307, 21 July 2005; National Geographic News, 18 October 2005; Science, 310, p. 1278-1279, 25 November 2005; New Scientist, p. 21, 6 May 2006; Science News, 10 July 2006; Nature Reports, August 2007; Science, p. 909, 15 August 2008.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES

• Co-chair of the START/TEA (Temperate East Asia) Steering Committee (1995 - 2000)

• Member of the Scientific Steering Committee for the EuropeanUnion project Research in Global Change in the Mediterranean: A Regional Network (RICAMARE) (1999 - 2001)

• Member of the Project for Intercomparison of Regional Climate Simulations (PIRCS) Advisory Committee (1996 - 2000)

• Member of the IPCC Task Group on Climate Impact Assessment (TGCIA) (1996 - 2003)

• Member of the Review Committee of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Office (KNMI) (2004)

• Member of the Scientific Steering Committee for the EuropeanUnion project Prediction of Regional Scenarios and Uncertainties for Defining European Climate Change Risks and Effects (PRUDENCE) (2001 - 2004)

• Member of the Steering Committee of the Planbleu project ”Climate change and energy in the Mediter-ranean” (2007 - 2008).

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Group for the international project COSMOS (2003 - present).

• Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the CAS-TWAS-WMO Forum for Physico-Mathematical

• Problems Related to Climate Modeling and Prediction (2001 -present)

• Member of the IPCC Bureau as Vice Chair of Working Group I (theScience of Climate Change) for the

• Fourth Assessment Report (2002 - 2008)

• Member of the JSC/CLIVAR Working Group on Climate Modeling (WGCM) (2005 - present).

• Member of the Steering Committee of the project MEDCLIVAR (2006 - present).

• Member of the WMO/ICSU/IOC Joint Scientific Committee (JSC)for the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) (2009-2012).