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Alberto Bottacin

Ph.D. in Metrologia , 38th cycle (2022-2025)

Ph.D. obtained in 2026

Dissertation:

Measurement quality in data products for meteorology and climate (Abstract)

Tutors:

Chiara MusacchioGraziano Coppa

Profile

Research topic

Measurement quality in data products for meteorology and climate

Research interests

Metrology
Sensors and Transducers
Quality assurance
Mathematical and statistical methods
Accuracy
Measurement uncertainty
Applied Metrology
Fundamental metrology
Instrumentation and Measurement
Measurement traceability
Measurement Standards
Science of measurement

Biography

Alberto Bottacin is a research associate at the Italian National Metrology Institute (INRiM), where he is also performing his doctoral activity. His field of study is metrology for meteorology and climate monitoring, with a special focus on air temperature measurements. Alberto is currently doing field experiments with metrological rigor to investigate exposure effects on thermometers, which will help to better quantify uncertainty for field observations and to enhance data quality for better measurement comparability in space and time. He is also developing new uncertainty-aware machine learning models for the analysis of time series with the goal to associate uncertainty to predictions, which is extremely important for data reconstruction tasks. Eventually, he contributed to the installation of the first Italian climatological station developing the data management software.

Publications

Works published during the Ph.D. View all publications in Porto@Iris