PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Research Fellow IBM Scientific Center, Rome, Italy, February 1982–September 1982.

• Research Assistant School of Geophysical Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, January 1983– August 1984.

• Research Assistant National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Co. Graduate Research Assistantship in the Advanced Study Program, August 1984–June 1986.

• Postdoctoral Fellow National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Co. Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Advanced Study Program, June 1986–October 1987.

• Scientist I Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, October 1987–June 1991.

• Scientist II Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, July 1991–July 1994.

• Deputy Sectn. Head Interdisciplinary Climate Systems Section, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, September 1992 September 1995.

• Visiting Scientist Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, Joint Research Centre, Ispra Establishment, Ispra, Italy, January 1993– December 1993.

• Scientist III Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, July 1994–April 1998.

• Senior Scientist Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics,Trieste, Italy, May 1998–present.

• Head Physics of Weather and Climate Group, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, May 1998–June 2004.

• Vice-Chair Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), WorkingGroup I, The physical science of climate change, April 2002–September 2008.

• Head Earth System Physics Section, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, September 2005–present.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Leader of a research effort to develop and maintain a regionalclimate model (RegCM) for community use (1989 to present).

• Organizer of a special issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research dedicated to “New Developments and Applications with the NCAR Regional Climate Model (RegCM)”, appeared in March 1999.

• Organizer of a special issue of Theoretical and Applied Climatology dedicated to “The ICTP Regional Climate research NETwork (RegCNET), appeared in September2006.

• Lead Author of Chapter 6 (“Climate Models - Projections of Future Climate”) of the IPCC Working Group I Second Assessment Report on the Science of Climate Change (1996).

• Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 10 (“Regional Climate Information - Evaluation and Projections”) of the IPCC Working Group I Third Assessment Report on the Scientific Basis of Climate Change (2001).

• Reviewer of journal articles (approximatly 15-20 per year)for a number of international journals.

• Editor, Climate Research (September 2008 - present).

• Coordinator of Scientific Programmes, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (2002-present).

• Co-leader of RegCNET, a regional climate research network involving over 270 participants mostly from developing countries (2003-present).