Tiziano  Tirabassi

Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC)                                                                                          

National Council of Reserches (CNR)

Address

Institute ISAC  of CNR

Via Gobetti, 101

I-40129 Bologna, Italy

Phone: +39 051 6399601

FAX  :  +39 051 6399658

e.mail: t.tirabassi@isac.cnr.it

Education

Doctoral degree in Physics  at the University of Bologna.

Present position

Research Director at CNR

Research Activity

Physics of the atmospheric boundary layer and air pollution modelling

Visiting scientist

• Indian Institute of  Technology – IIT (New Delhy, India )
• Universitade de São Paulo - USP (São Paulo, SP, Brazil)
• Universitade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM (S. Maria, RS,  Brazil)
• Universitade Luterana do Brasil – ULBRA (Canoas, RS, Brazil)
• Universitade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS (Porto Alegre,  RS,  Brazil)

Teaching Activities

· Supervisor and  member of Examining Boards for the award of the Master and Ph.D  degree

· In 1990 and 1994, director of two International Courses on mathematical diffusion models and the atmospheric boundary, held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste (ICTP).

· From 2000 to 2005, Contract Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Parma

Editorial Boards

· Mondometano.

· Physica Medica

· Advances in Air Pollution Book Series, WIT Press (Southampton, UK).

Scientific Advisory Committee

• Regional Anti-Pollution Committee of Emilia Romagna (CRIAER)
• Istituto di Cosmo-Geofisica (CNR)
• Istituto  di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima (ISAC)

• Scuola Superiore di Fisica Biomedica "P. Caldirola"

• Technical Committee for the Assessment of Air Pollution in the Bologna Metropolitan Area.

• International Representastive Committee  of International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC)

• of the following meetings:

· Air Pollution

· Envirosoft

· Coastal Environment

· Applied Sciences and the Environment (ASE)

· Worksop on Physics of the Planetary Boundary Layer and Dispersion Process Modelling

· Workshop Brasileiro de Micrometeorologia

· Mesoscale Processes in Atmosphere, Ocean and Environmental Systems

· Chairman of Air Pollution ‘97.

Co-ordination and Responsibility in Research Programmes

Scientific co-ordinator in many research programmes and research contracts of CNR and in projects of international collaborations

Publications