Paolo De Luca

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Biography

My research interests focus on climate extremes.
 
I am actively working on:
- seasonal to multidecadal predictions of climate extremes;
- sources of predictability of regional climate extremes;
- univariate and compound climate extremes in observations, reanalyses and climate models;
- mechanisms and dynamics of climate extremes.
 
Appointments
from 2024 Researcher (R2), Barcelona Supercomputing Center
2022-2024 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow (R2), Barcelona Supercomputing Center 
2021-2022 Researcher (R2), Barcelona Supercomputing Center 
2019-2021 Postdoc, VU Amsterdam 
 
Research visits (2 weeks or more)
March-April 2024 Universidad de Buenos Aires
12-25 November 2023 Freie Universität Berlin 
July-August 2023 University of Bergen 
2018-2020 (~6 months) Uppsala University 
 

Educación

2016-2019 NERC PhD, Loughborugh University 
2013-2015 MSc, Marche Polytechnic University
2015 ERASMUS+ Trainee, Hamburg University
2011-2013 BSc, University of Perugia 
2012-2013 Trainee, INGV

Research

Grants
Ramón y Cajal Fellowship 2024 (in prep)
La Caixa Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellowship 2025 €320,100 (under review)
03/03/2023 Severo Ochoa Mobility Grant €1,150
06/10/2022 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2021 €165,312.96 (92.2/100, 2 years)
01/01/2020 DAMOCLES (COST) Short Term Scientific Mission €3,500
01/03/2016 CENTA NERC Doctoral Scholarship (3.5 years with £8,000 RTSG)
 
Peer-reviewed publications
*paper without supervisor(s)/PI(s)
^PhD student
 
#24* Vilela, I., Koseki, S., De Luca, P., Silva, T., Veleda, D., and Keenlyside, N.S. (in prep)
 
#23 Acosta-Navarro, J., Volpi, D., De Luca, P., Essenfelder, A.H., Toreti, A., Mahmood, R., ^Aranyossy, A., and Donat, M.G. (in prep)
 
#22 ^Aranyossy, A., Donat, M.G., De Luca, P., Delgado-Torres, C., Solaraju-Murali, B., and Samso-Cabre, M. (in prep)
 
#21 De Luca., P., Delgado-Torres, C., Mahmood, R., ^Aranyossy, A., Samso-Cabre, M., Keenlyside, N.S., King., A., Taschetto, A.S., and Donat, M.G. (in prep)
 
#20* Chen, H.°, De Luca, P.°, Hochman, A., and Komacek, T.D. Climate effects of stellar activity on tidally-locked exo-earths, Astron. J. (under review) °equal contributing authors
 
2024
 

#18 De Luca, P., Jiménez-Esteve, B., Degenhardt, L., Schemm, S., and Pfahl, S. (2024) Enhanced blocking frequencies in very-high resolution idealized climate model simulations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 51, e2024GL111016

 
#17 Materia, S., Palma-Garcia, L., van Straaten, C., O, S., Mamalakis, A., Cavicchia, L., Coumou, D., De Luca, P., Kretschmer, M., and Donat, M.G. (2024) Artificial intelligence for predictions of climate extremes: state of the art, challenges and future perspectives, Wiley Interdiscip. Rev. Clim. Change, 15(6), e914
 
#16* De Luca, P., Braam, M., Komacek, T.D., and Hochman, A. (2024) The impact of Ozone on Earth-like exoplanet climate dynamics: the case of Proxima Centauri b, Mon. Notices Royal Astron. Soc., 531, 1, 1471-1482
 
#15* Campana, P.E., Stridth, B., Hörndahl, T., Svensson, S.-E., Zainali, S., Ma Lu, S., Zidane, T.E.K., De Luca, P., Amaducci, S., and Colauzzi, M. (2024) Experimental results, integrated model validation, and economic aspects of agrivoltaic systems at northern latitudes, J. Clean. Prod., 437, 140235
 
2023
#14 De Luca, P., Delgado-Torres, C., Mahmood, R., Samso-Cabre, M., and Donat, M.G. (2023) Constraining decadal variability regionally improves near-term projections of hot, cold and dry extremes, Environ. Res. Lett., 18, 094054
 

#13 Donat, M.G., Delgado-Torres, C., De Luca, P., Mahmood, R., Ortega, P., and Doblas-Reyes, F.J. (2023) How credibly do CMIP6 simulations capture historical mean and extreme precipitation changes?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2022GL102466

#12* Hochman, A., Komacek, T.D., and De Luca, P.  (2023) Analogous response of temperate terrestrial exoplanets and Earth's climate dynamics to greenhouse gas supplement, Sci. Rep., 13, 11123

#11 De Luca, P., and Donat, M.G. (2023) Projected changes in hot, dry and compound hot-dry extremes over global land regions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2022GL102493

2021-2022
#10* Hochman, A., De Luca, P., and Komacek, T.D. (2022) Greater climate sensitivity and variability on TRAPPIST-1e than Earth, Astrophys. J., 938(2), 114
 
#9 Pastori, M., Margheriti, L., De Gori, P., Govoni, A., Lucente, F.P., Moretti, M., Marchetti, A., Di Giovambattista, R., Anselmi, M., De Luca, P., Nardi, A., Piana Agostinetti, N., Latorre, D., Piccinini, D., Passarelli, L., and Chiarabba, C. (2021) The 2011-2014 Pollino seismic swarm: complex fault systems imaged by 1D refined location and shear wave splitting analysis at the Apennines- Calabrian arc boundary, Front. Earth Sci., 9, 90
 
#8 Messori, G., Bevacqua, E., Caballero, R., Coumou, D., De Luca, P., Faranda, D., Kornhuber, K., Martius, O., Pons, F.M.E., Raymond, C., Ye, K., Yiou, P., and Zscheischler, J. (2021) Compound climate events and extremes in the mid-latitudes: dynamics, simulation and statistical characterisation, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 102(4), E774–E781
 
2020
#7 De Luca, P., Messori, G., Faranda, D., Ward, P.J., and Coumou, D. (2020) Compound warm-dry and cold-wet events over the Mediterranean, Earth Syst. Dynam., 11, 793–805
 
#6* Thandlam, V., Udaya Bhaskar, T.V.S., Hasibur, R., De Luca, P., Sahlée, E., Rutgersson, A., Ravichandran, M., and Ramakrishna, S.S.V.S. (2020) A sea-level monopole in the equatorial Indian Ocean, NPJ Clim. Atmos. Sci., 3, 25
 
#5 De Luca, P., Messori, G., Wilby, R.L., Mazzoleni, M., and Di Baldassarre, G. (2020) Concurrent wet and dry hydrological extremes at the global scale, Earth Syst. Dynam., 11, 251–266
 
#4* De Luca, P., Messori, G., Pons, F.M.E., and Faranda, D. (2020) Dynamical systems theory sheds new light on compound climate extremes in Europe and Eastern North America, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 146: 1636– 1650
 
2017-2019
#3 De Luca, P., Harpham, C., Wilby, R.L., Hillier, J.K., Franzke, C.L.E., and Leckebusch, G.C. (2019) Past and projected weather pattern persistence with associated multi-hazards in the British Isles, Atmosphere, 10(10):577
 
#2 De Luca, P., Hillier, J.K., Wilby, R.L., Quinn, N.W., and Harrigan, S. (2017) Extreme multi-basin flooding linked with extra-tropical cyclones, Environ. Res. Lett., 12, 114009
 
#1 Wilby, R.L., Clifford, N.J., De Luca, P., Harrigan, S., Hillier, J.K., Hodgkins, R., Johnson, M.F., Matthews, T.K.R., Murphy, C., Noone, S.J., Parry, S., Prudhomme, C., Rice, S.P., Slater, L.J., Smith, K.A., and Wood, P.J. (2017) The “dirty dozen” of freshwater science: detecting then reconciling hydrological data biases and errors, Wiley Interdiscip. Rev. Water, 4: e1209
 
Other

De Luca, P. (2020) Concurrent Hydroclimatic Hazards from Catchment to Global Scales, PhD Thesis, Loughborough University