Salvatore
Pascale
ITALY Junior Assistant Professor of Physics of the Earth and of the Circumterrestrial Medium University of Bologna Core Faculty
Salvatore Pascale, Ph.D., is Junior Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy (DIFA), University of Bologna, since March 2021. He holds a M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Naples “Federico II” and a Ph.D. in Meteorology awarded by the University of Reading, UK. He was a research fellow at the California Institute of Technology with a NOAA Climate and Global Change Fellowship from 2015 to 2017, an associate research scholar at Princeton University and NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory from 2017 to 2019, and research scientist at Stanford University from 2019 to 2021.
COURSES
Human-caused climate change is one of the most serious issue of our time and it portends
unprecedented environmental changes for our societies and future generations. Terms like “global
warming”, “climate change” or “greenhouse effect” are nowadays commonly used by non-specialists,
although this is often done without a clear understanding of the science behind them. Understanding
the science of human-caused climate change is essential to understand the economic, political and
moral dimension of it, and ultimately to tackle it. The objective of this course is to explain the basics of
the climate change science in a concise yet rigorous way, providing the scientific knowledge which
underlies all aspect of the human-induced climate change problem.
Sustainability Transition Management (Part-time)
