Jose Antonio Marengo Orsini

Jose A. Marengo has a degree in Physics and Meteorology - Universidad Nacional Agraria (1981), a master's degree in Water and Land Resources Engineering - Universidad Nacional Agraria (1987) in Lima, Peru and a doctorate in Meteorology - University of Wisconsin - Madison (1991) in the USA. He did post-doctoral work at NASA-GISS and Columbia University in New York and at Florida State University in Florida, USA on climate modeling. He is currently a full researcher and General Coordinator of Research and Development at CEMADEN (National Center for Monitoring and Alerts of Natural Disasters) linked to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation MCTI, where he works with extreme events, natural disasters and disaster risk reduction. He teaches postgraduate courses at INPE and UNESP. He is also an adjunct professor at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea. He is a member of several international United Nations panels and working groups in Brazil and abroad on climate change and global change. He is a consultant in the area of environmental studies of global change, impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change and a referee for various scientific journals and national and international funding agencies. He is the author of more than 250 articles, book chapters, books, technical reports and conference papers. He currently participates in several research projects with Brazilian, English, French and American institutions, and has intensified his teaching and research supervision activities, as well as being an active member of several participatory councils on climate and hydrology, climate change and global change. He has experience in the field of Geosciences, with an emphasis on Meteorology, working mainly on the following topics: Amazonia, climate, climate change, and climate modeling. He was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change, CLA y RE of the IPCC Reports AR5 and AR6 GT1 and 2, and currently of IPCC AR7. He is a Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He was a member of CNPq's Environmental Sciences Advisory Committee, and is currently an associate editor of the International Journal of Climatology, Geosciences, and the Annais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. He is a member of the Scientific Committee on Climate Adaptation and Resilience of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and of the SPI of the United Nations Framework Convention to Combat Desertification. He was selected by Clarivate as one of the most influential and highly cited geoscience researchers in the world in 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)