Jeremy Pal is senior researcher at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change at University of Venice Ca’ Foscari (CMCC@Ca’Foscari) in the Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategies (RAAS) Division.  He has over 25 years of experience in the field of climate change and its impact on water resources and hydrologic cycle; extreme climatic events including flood, drought, and heat waves; agriculture; human health; and the natural environment. To assess these impacts, he employs a variety of numerical environmental models, including regional climate models, hydrologic models, and hydrodynamic models, as well as, analyzes observational datasets. He has co-led the development of four different regional climate modeling systems including the UNESCO Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Regional Climate Model (RegCM3) and the MIT Regional Climate Model. In addition to environmental data analysis and modeling, he is an expert in assessments of climate change hazard, exposure and vulnerability.

Prior to joining CMCC, Jeremy was a full professor and graduate program director in the Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at Loyola Marymount University, a research scientist in the Earth System Physics group at the ICTP, and a visiting research professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He also holds considerable consulting experience including with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office in Ethiopia, the Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology in Singapore, and MIT.  Jeremy earned his MS and PhD in environmental engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his BS in civil engineering from Loyola Marymount University.