Dr Ciarlo` obtained his B.Sc.(Hons) in Chemistry and Physics, M.Sc. in Atmospheric Physics, and Ph.D. (the latter from the Department of Geosciences) in 2010, 2012, and 2017 respectively, all from the University of Malta (UM). He studies climate change, specifically by using Climate Models (on supercomputers) that focus on small regions (such as Europe).
He has also taught sciences at secondary school level for a number of years, and has also lectured at the UM. Dr Ciarlo` is an experiences science communicator, with the most prominent contributions included the organization of numerous science shows for ‘Science in the City’ together with a team of Maltese scientists.
Dr Ciarlo` spent over 4 years working at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, (in Trieste, Italy) where he was part of the research efforts that contributed to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report. He joined the Institute of Earth Systems in August 2022 after being awarded with the Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant to work on
PALEOSIM - a research project with the aim to determine the climate impact on arthropod (mostly insects) habitats on small islands ranging from the last ice age (21,000 years ago) to the end of the 21st century.
As an early-career scientists he has published 12 peer-reviewed papers, and was also a co-author in the last 3 editions (2022, 2017, 2014) of the "National Communication of Malta: under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change".
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