Personal details 

Date of birth March 3, 1974, Florence, Italy Nationality Italian

Employment record and Education

 2003    Degree in Natural Sciences at Florence University (Italy), Department of geomorphology with grades 104/110. Thesis: “Soil erosion in the Chianti Classico vineyards”.

 1993    Secondary School Certificate. Information technology specialization at Industrial Technical Institute “Alessandro Volta” in Florence.

Current position

Researcher - National Research Council - Institute of Biometeorology (CNR-IBIMET)

Via Caproni, 8 50145 Firenze, Italia
Tel:+390553033711 (work)
Tel:+39 3209223934
Email: a.matese@ibimet.cnr.it

web: http://www.ibimet.cnr.it/Staff/matese

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 Organization, Committees, Panel member and Project Partecipation

• Researcher  IBIMET CNR, Italy (2004-2010) : Management of meteorological instrumentations, data aquisition, analisys and data processing.
• Partecipant / responsible SINPREF – SINSIAF Barilla (2004-2006) : Research activities in the fields of mathematical modeling applied to the processes of crop-growth, managing experimental data acquisition campaigns, validation and calibration in modeling.. Forecast system of quality and productivity of crops of durum wheat. Modelling of an integrated system for managing food safety in the chain of durum wheat.
• Partecipant / responsible Agena - Barilla (2006-2008) : Weather Forecast, Wheat Production Forecast using weather station data and satellite data as input for Delphi Model and other Crop models.
• Partecipant CarboItaly MIUR Project (2006-2008) : Aircraft and Tower observations of CO2 fluxes.
• Partecipant CarboEurope UE (2006-2008) : Aircraft observations of CO2 fluxes.
• Responsible Consorzio Tuscania (2007-2010) : Development of an WSN in the Tuscany vineyards and Aircraft remote sensing (multispectral and thermal sensor).
• Partecipant  Pianosa LAB (2006-2009) : Tower measurements of CO2 fluxes in Pianosa island.

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Publications

 Journal papers

 Peer reviewed journals JCR-ISI

•  Matese, A., Gioli, B., Vaccari, F.P., Zaldei, A., Miglietta, F., 2009. Carbon Dioxide Emission of the City Center of Firenze, Italy: Measurement, Evaluation, and Source Partitioning. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 48 (9), 1940–1947.
•  Matese, A., Di Gennaro, S.F., Zaldei, A., Genesio, L., Vaccari, F.P., 2009. A Wireless sensor network for precision viticulture: The NAV system. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 69, 51-58.
•  Matese, A., Alberti, G., Gioli, B., Toscano, P., Vaccari, F.P., Zaldei, A., 2008. Compact_Eddy: A compact, low consuption remotely controller eddy covariance logging system. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 64, 343-346.
•  Taddei, S., Toscano, P., Gioli, B., Matese, A., Miglietta, F., Vaccari, F.P., Zaldei, A., Custer, T., Williams, J., 2009. Carbon Dioxide and Acetone Air-Sea Fluxes over the Southern Atlantic. Environmental Science and Technology 43 (14), 5218-5222.
•  Miglietta, F., Gioli, B., Brunet, Y., Hutjes, R.W.A., Matese, A., Sarrat, C., Zaldei, A., 2009. Sensible and latent heat flux from radiometric surface temperatures at the regional scale: methodology and evaluation. Biogeosciences  6, 1975-1986.

Peer reviewed journals

•  Vaccari, F.P., Ranieri, R., Matese, A., Miglietta, F., 2007. Enhanced Temperature During Grain Filling Reduces Protein Concentration of Durum Wheat. Italian Journal of Agronomy 4, 393-400.

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Books

•  Misura dei flussi di gas traccia da piattaforma oceanografica: il progetto OOMPH (Clima e Cambiamenti climatici: le attività del CNR. S. Taddei, P.Toscano, B.Gioli, A.Matese, F.Miglietta, F.P.Vaccari, A.Zaldei, G.Maracchi, CNR-IBIMET Firenze)
•  Nuove tecnologie per la misura di emissioni di gas serra a scala regionale (Clima e Cambiamenti climatici: le attività del CNR. B.Gioli, A.Matese, F.Miglietta, P.Toscano, A.Zaldei,G.Maracchi, CNR-IBIMET Firenze)
• Misura delle emissioni di gas ad effetto serra di un sistema urbano (Clima e Cambiamenti climatici: le attività del CNR. A.Matese, B.Gioli, F.Miglietta, P.Toscano, F.P.Vaccari, A.Zaldei, G.Maracchi, CNR-IBIMET Firenze)
•  Confronto fra campi meteorologici RAMS e osservazioni a terra (VOLUME BARILLA-CNR: Sicurezza alimentare della filiera del frumento duro. A. Matese. CNR-IBIMET Firenze) - MIUR n. 12792 (Piano Operativo Nazionale 2000-2006).  ISBN - 88-7898-015-3.
•  Studio di un modello di simulazione della fenologia del frumento duro per la stima della suscettibilità all’infezione da Fusarium (VOLUME BARILLA-CNR: Sicurezza alimentare della filiera del frumento duro. A. Matese. CNR-IBIMET Firenze) - MIUR n. 12792 (Piano Operativo Nazionale 2000-2006).  ISBN - 88-7898-015-3.

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 Invited lectures for conferences, seminars, workshops, research schools and Conference proceedings :

•   An integrated multi-scale monitoring approach to understand the relationships between climate, agricultural practices on grapes quality (A. Matese, F. S. Di Gennaro, L. Genesio, F. P. Vaccari, A. Zaldei, P. Toscano, B. Gioli, S. Pedò, S. Di Blasi and G. Maracchi) , GiESCO International Viticulture Symposium Davis, California (July 2009)
• Utilizzo di una metodologia di monitoraggio multi-scala nella viticoltura di precisione (A. Matese, L. Genesio, F. Di Gennaro, F. P.  Vaccari, P. Toscano, B. Gioli, A. Zaldei, T. De Filippis, E. Fiorillo, L. Rocchi) ENOFORUM 2009 Innovazione ed Eccellenza Piacenza 21-23 Aprile 2009
• Monitoraggio integrato multi-scala dei vigneti: dalla micro-meteorologia al telerilevamento aereo (A. Matese L. Genesio, A. Zaldei, F. Di Gennaro, F.P. Vaccari,  P. Toscano, B. Gioli, T. De Filippis, E. Fiorillo) III Simposio Internazionale sul Sangiovese  Firenze 3-5 dicembre 2008 .
• Measurement Campaign of eddy fluxes in the High Tatra (Vysoke Tatry)-Slovacchia, CarboTatra 2006-2007 (P. Fleischer, B. Gioli, S. Giorgi, A. Matese, F. Miglietta, P. Toscano, F. P. Vaccari, A. Zaldei), Tatranska Lomnica (SK) December 2008
•  Disjunct eddy covariance measurements of air/sea flux of acetone during the OOMPH campaign. (S. Taddei, P. Toscano, B. Gioli, A. Matese, F. Miglietta, F. P. Vaccari, A. Zaldei) OOMPH Progress Meeting Budapest April 2008
•  Test of DEC and REA systems for shipboard flux measurements (F. Miglietta, B. Gioli, A. Matese, S. Taddei, P. Toscano, A. Zaldei) OOMPH Progress Meeting Florence May 3-5 2006

Teaching

•  “Modelling cropping system for drought impact assessment: the case of durum wheat in Italy” - “MTP – Mediterranean Training Programme for harmonization of Early Warning System and Operational instrument for monitoring Climate Change and Desertification. CNR-Ibimet - UNCCD-EUMETSAT

Software use information

Office Automation: Microsoft Office Package

Programming language: Basic, Visual Fortran, C, Visual Studio .NET

Numerical computing environment and programming language: Matlab, Maple

Unix / Linux operating System

Other Software : Surfer, Grapher, Photoshop,Corel, AutoCAD, GAMBIT

Software GIS : ArcView-Gis, ENVI