Maxime Beauchamp is a researcher at CMCC specializing in AI, data assimilation and Earth system modelling. He holds a PhD in geostatistics from Mines Paris, with expertise in spatial statistics, inverse problems and uncertainty quantification. He previously worked at IMT in France, the Nansen Center on ocean data assimilation, and DMI on AI-based sea-ice forecasting. His current research focuses on generative AI, foundation models and digital twins for ocean and climate applications.