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 experienced 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 four years at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), in Trieste, Italy. During this time he contributed to research efforts featured in the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report. He joined the Institute of Earth Systems in August 2022 after receiving the prestigious Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant to lead
PALEOSIM - a project investigating the climate impacts on arthropod habitats on small islands spanning 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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