Marco Turco received his Doctorate in Physics at the University of Barcelona in 2012. After he has developed his research at the CMCC (Italy), CNR (Italy), UB (Spain) and BSC (Spain). Currently his is a postdoc researcher of the University of Murcia as he obtains a national project as Principal Investigator in the highly competitive program of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities: PREDFIRE ‘climate monitoring and PREDictions to forecast global FIRE activity' (Programa Estatal de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad ref. RTI2018-099711-J-I00). The focus of Dr. Turco is on making weather/climate information action-oriented, which he approached using multidisciplinary and multi-sectorial experiences on operational and research activities. He has been awarded for his research on climate change impacts, contribution to the analysis of precipitation extremes and active participation to MedCLIVAR activities. He is author of more than 40 publications in the peer–reviewed international scientific literature (ISI journals).

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