Francesco Trotta is a Scientist at the GlObal Coastal Ocean division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), working on high-resolution ocean modelling and ocean dynamics. He has a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Florence.
He has worked at the University of Bologna from 2012 to 2022 developing an innovative relocatable ocean modelling platform to generate high resolution oceanic forecasts, called SURF (Structured and Unstructured Grid Relocatable ocean platform for Forecasting). He has taken part in several National and International projects including TESSA, MARISA, IMMERSE, Edito Model Lab. He has participated to several oceanographic campaigns to collect oceanographic data. He has been lecturer in different trainings regarding numerical ocean modelling and SURF platform.