Fabio MADONNA | Curriculum

Academic and teaching degrees

Degree in Physics (Earth and Environmental Physics) obtained on 30/10/2003, at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", with the vote of 110/110 with honors. Degree thesis title: "Observation of desert dust during the ENVISAT validation campaign at mid-latitudes".
PhD in "Methods and technologies for environmental monitoring", 01/03/2007, at the University of Basilicata. PhD thesis title: ”Moisture assessment and cloud profiling using lidar and microwave techniques”
Junior researcher at the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA) of the CNR since 1 September 2008.
Senior researcher at the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA) of the CNR since 2 November 2011.
Associate Professor (FIS/06) at the Physics Department of the University of Salerno since 23 December 2022.
Associate researcher at the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA) of the CNR since 2 February 2023.

Research activity

- Metrology for in-situ temperature and humidity measurements

- Study of the total uncertainty budget in the comparison of ground and satellite measurements.

- Spatio-temporal analysis and harmonization of climatic temperature and humidity records.

- Study of trends, climate variability and extreme events using temperature, humidity and wind series with near-surface measurements and atmospheric profiling, and with climate models and atmospheric reanalysis.

- Development of methodologies for the analysis and use of redundant measurements of temperature and humidity

- Analysis of ground measurements and validation of numerical models for the study of the microphysics of cold and supercooled clouds.

- Study of transport phenomena and of the optical properties of aerosols through the analysis of lidar measurements at different wavelengths from the ground and from aircraft.

- Development of methodologies and algorithms for the use of lidar measurements obtained from ceilometers (nefohypsometers) and for the comparison and intercalibration with Raman lidar measurements and the study of the boundary layer.

- Development of algorithms for the integration of lidar and microwave measurements (active and passive) for the profiling of humidity and cloud properties based on the use of filtering techniques

- Study of aerosol-cloud interactions and of interactions between giant aerosols and rain formation process with radar, lidar, and ground-based passive measurements.