Francesco Pio De Cosmo and Gianluca Di Natale will be visiting IFIC from 18 to 27 March 2026. During their visit, they will be collaborating with the LHCPHENO group and will also give a joint IFIC topical seminar on Wednesday, 25 March at 15:00.

More information about this event here (https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/8524/).

Francesco Pio De Cosmo is currently a PhD candidate in information engineering at the University of Florence, in collaboration with the CNR, having graduated in theoretical physics from the University of Pisa. His research activity focuses on the development of models for forward and inverse radiative transfer problems, with applications to climate modeling, multi-instrument synergy, and artificial intelligence. His broad research interests include physics of the atmosphere, earth observation, numerical methods, and theoretical physics. Previously, as a research fellow at CNR-IAC, he collaborated on the FIT-FORUM and CASIA projects funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), working on the development of codes for data analysis.

Gianluca Di Natale is currently a Researcher at the National Institute of Optics of CNR in Florence. He earned his Master's degree in Physics in 2011 and a PhD in Remote Sensing from the University of Pisa in 2015. He mainly works on Fourier spectroscopy in the Far Infrared applied to the atmosphere, as well as the development of algorithms and codes for cloud modeling and retrieval. He coordinated the FIRCLOUDS (Far Infrared Radiative closure experiment for antarctic CLOUDS) project, selected by the Italian Antarctic Research Program to study the radiative properties of ice and mixed-phase clouds in Antarctica at Dome-C, and participated in the 34th Antarctic Campaign in 2018-2019. Currently, he is involved in the Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation for Understanding and Monitoring (FORUM) mission, selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2019 as Earth Explorer-9 to study from space the far infrared outgoing radiation emitted by the Earth. Additionally, he is participating in the Earth-Moon-Mars project as part of the Italian NRPP National Recovery and Resilience Plan, aiming to develop a spectrometer to be installed on a future lunar infrastructure for monitoring Earth's temperature trends and geophysical parameters relevant to climate change.

Francesco will be based in office B.1.4.5, and Gianluca will be in office B.2.1. You can reach them at francescopiodecosmo@cnr.it and gianluca.dinatale@ino.cnr.it.