Giovanni Coppini

Giovanni Coppini is a Senior Scientist and Director of the Ocean Predictions and Applications Division of Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) Foundation in Lecce, Italy.

Giovanni is the Director of the Ocean Predictions and Applications Division of CMCC, with a Phd in Environmental Science: protection and management of natural resources from Bologna University.

From 2003 he has been working on operational oceanography application development. Since May 2015 he’s led the European Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS) for the Mediterranean Monitoring and Forecasting Centre (MFC) that provides ocean forecasting for the Mediterranean Sea. He was Deputy Leader of the Black Sea MFC and has 45 papers in peer reviewed international journals.

At CMCC Giovanni has coordinated and contributed to the development of several applications relevant to maritime safety and marine environment based on CMEMS data including Sea-Conditions, VISIR, WITOIL and OCEAN-SAR. Since June 2021 he has been a member of the Steering Committee of CoastPredict UN Ocean Decade programme and since June 2022 he coordinates the PredictOnTime UN Ocean Decade action.