Valerio Lucarini#
| Membership Number: | 6114 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valerio-Lucarini |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9392-1471 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerio-lucarini-7a477244/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Leicester
- 2016 - 2024 Professor of Statistical Mechanics & Director of the Centre Mathematics of Planet Earth, University of Reading, UK
- 2017 - 2020 Visiting Professor, University of Hamburg, Germany
- 2011 - 2016 Professor of Theoretical Meteorology, University of Hamburg, Germany
- 2009 - 2011 Lecturer in Meteorology and Mathematics, University of Reading, UK
- 2007 - 2009 Assistant Professor in Earth System Physics, University of Bologna, Italy
- 2004 - 2007 PostDoctoral Researcher, CINFAI Consortium, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Climate variability
- Thermodynamics of the climate system
- Tipping points and multistability
- Stochastic processes
- Extreme events
- Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
- Stochastic processes
- Tipping points and multistability
- Instability of geophysical flows and predictability
- Climate change
- Parametrizations and reduced order models
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2022 SIAM Mathematics of Planet Earth Prize
- 2021 E. N. Lorenz Lecture, American Geophysical Union
- 2020 L. F. Richardson Medal, European Geosciences Union
- 2018 Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society
- 2018 A. von Humboldt Connect Fellowship
- 2010-2015 ERC Grant "NAMASTE"
- 2010 Outstanding Young Scientist (now Arne Richter) Award, European Geosciences Union
- 2006 Volta Prize, A. Volta Foundation, Como
- 2001 Global Change Fellowship, American Meteorological Society.
- 2000 Italian Physical Society Award for Best Young Scientist
