Michele Petrini

M. Petrini is an ice-sheet and coupled Earth-system-ice-sheet modeller with a specific interest in simulating past and future interactions between ice-sheets, climate and solid-Earth. During his Ph.D., he investigated with two different ice-sheet models the effects of ocean forcing on the dynamical stability of the Svalbard-Barents Sea paleo-ice-sheet during the last deglaciation. In 2018, he joined the project “CoupledIceClim” (ERC-StG, PI: M. Vizcaino, TUDelft) as postdoctoral researcher, to investigate past and future ice-climate interactions with the new-generation, coupled Earth-system-ice-sheet model CESM2/CISM2. During this postdoc, he actively contributed to design, run and analyse the first coupled future projections (end-of-century and long-term) of the Greenland ice-sheet, and a CESM2 simulation of the global climate during the Last Glacial Maximum. Moreover, he has collaborated with the CESM Land Ice Working Group (NCAR) to develop and test a new CESM2/CISM2 ocean-ice sheet coupling component of his design. In June 2021, he joined OGS as a postdoc, with the research drive of investigating past ice-sheet-solid-Earth interactions in Antarctica using coupled ice-sheet and GIA models. During his early career, M.Petrini has built a solid network with both the modelling (ISMIP6, CESM Land Ice Working Group) and the paleo-observational communities (PAST Gateways, PALGLAC, INSTANT).