Governance, management and operational structure

Scientific advisory board

The scientific advisory board (SAB) is a committee of expertise put to the service of the Institute and formed by a representation of the highest renowned scientists in the field worldwide. Its main task will be to inform the board of trustees and the director in the definition of new research lines and strategies, and in the best ways to recruit talent and widen the scientific strength of the Institute. Also, the committee will perform periodical evaluations of all scientific activities and results generated at the institute, which will serve as the guidelines to follow to meet excellence criteria in the fulfilment of the institute’s scientific and educational mission.

IC3’ SAB

Daniel R. Cayan. Director of the Climate Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego (USA)
Axel Timmermann. Associate Professor. Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, (USA).
Tim Palmer. Director of the Probability Forecasting and Diagnostics Division in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), UK.
Mercedes Pascual. Associate Professor. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of Michigan (USA)
Filippo Giorgi. Director of the Physics of Weather and Climate Section and International Coordinator of ICTP Scientific Programmes at the Center of Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy). 
Eystein Jansen. Scientific director of the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research and Dept. of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
James L. Kinter III. Director of the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) and associate professor of the Climate Dynamics Ph.D. Program in the School of Computational Sciences at George Mason University (USA)
Andrew P. Dobson. Professor. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology de la Princeton University (USA)
Eduardo Zorita. Senior Scientist. Institute for Coastal Research of the GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany.
Philip M. Fearnside. Professor. Department of Ecology at the National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA), Manaus (Brazil)
Stephen M. Griffies. Researcher. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory de la National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton (USA)
Wallace S. Broecker. Newberry Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York (USA)
Jürg Luterbacher. Professor Hodzent. Institut pf Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland
Petra Tschakert. Professor. Departament of Geography, PennState University, University Park, Pennsilvania (USA)

IC³ International Collaborations and External relations:

Research at IC³ will enhance interactions with researchers at other laboratories and universities in different countries. A strong visiting scientists exchange programme will be created at IC³ as a way to enhance know-how flux and possible talent recruiting. A ‘Distinguished Visitor’ program is strongly recommended.

Programme of Associate Research Units

IC³ will develop a programme of associate research units (PARU) to foster collaboration in the field of climate sciences complementary and of interest to those in IC³. In the PARU, formal collaborations will be settled with other qualified groups performing high quality research in fields judged to be complementary to IC³ research areas. Collaborations will be selected in order to maximize the mutual benefit for the institutions involved in terms of quality of research and production of valuable knowledge. To this end, applications to PARU will be evaluated on a yearly basis by the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) that will take into consideration both the quality of the applicants and interest of the scientific workplan within the IC³ research framework.