Niccolò MAFFEZZOLI

Postdoc at the Institute of Polar Sciences, National Research Council and University Ca’ Foscari, Venice

PhD, University of Copenhagen, 2017, Geophysics
MSc, University of Milano-Bicocca, 2014, Nuclear and Particle physics

Email: niccolo.maffezzoli@unive.it

I received my master degree in nuclear and particle physics from Milano-Bicocca University in 2014. My background ranges from applied particle physics to environmental radioactivity and high-energy physics. My work at the nuclear fission reactor in Pavia (Italy) introduced me to the ice core science field. I did my PhD (2014-2017) at the Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen, Denmark), working on ice core continuous flow analysis systems and past sea ice reconstructions. I continued my research on climate reconstructions at the Niels Bohr Institute, at the Italian National Research Council and at the University of Venice in 2018 and 2019. Between 2020 and 2022 I was Marie Curie fellow at the University of Venice with a project on computer vision and Artificial Intelligence techniques applied to ice core analyses. Since September 2022 I work on glacier modeling via deep neural networks in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine. I am particularly interested in exploring AI and Machine Learning approaches to Earth System Science problems.

Projects

• Marie Curie Global Fellowship 2021, ”Estimating the ice volume of Earth’s glaciers via Artificial Intelligence and remote sensing, SKYNET”, N. Maffezzoli, PI (University of Venice)
• Climate Change A.I. Innovation Grant 2021, ”Estimate the ice volume of all glaciers in High Mountain Asia with deep learning, ICENET”, N. Maffezzoli, PI (National Research Council, Institute of Polar Sciences)
• Marie Curie European Fellowship 2018, ”Artificial Intelligence techniques for ice core analyses, ICELEARNING”, N. Maffezzoli, PI (University of Venice)

Research expeditions

Greenland: Renland (2015), EGRIP (2016).
Svalbard: Ny-Alesund (2018, 2019).

Publication shortlist

Maffezzoli, N., et al. Detection of ice core particles via deep neural networks, The Cryosphere Discuss, in review, (2022), link.

Maffezzoli, N., et al. Sea ice in the northern North Atlantic through the Holocene: Evidence from ice cores and marine sediment records. Quaternary Science Reviews 273, 107249, (2021).

Corella, J.P., Maffezzoli, N., Spolaor, A., Vallelonga, P., Cuevas, C.A., Scoto, F., Müller, J., Vinther, B., Kjær, H.A., Cozzi, G. and Edwards, R. Climate changes modulated the history of Arctic iodine during the Last Glacial Cycle. Nature communications, 13(1), pp.1-9, (2022).

Vallelonga, P., Maffezzoli, N., Saiz-Lopez, A., Scoto, F., Kjær, H.A. and Spolaor, A. Sea-ice reconstructions from bromine and iodine in ice cores. Quaternary Science Reviews, 269, p.107133, (2021).

Sadatzki, H., Maffezzoli, N., Dokken, T.M., Simon, M.H., Berben, S.M., Fahl, K., Kjær, H.A., Spolaor, A., Stein, R., Vallelonga, P. and Vinther, B.M. Rapid reductions and millennial-scale variability in Nordic Seas sea ice cover during abrupt glacial climate changes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(47), pp.29478-29486, (2020).

Maffezzoli, N., Vallelonga, P., Edwards, R., Saiz-Lopez, A., Turetta, C., Kjær, H.A., Barbante, C., Vinther, B. and Spolaor, A. A 120 000-year record of sea ice in the North Atlantic?. Climate of the Past, 15(6), pp.2031-2051, (2019)

Maffezzoli, N., Baccolo, G., Di Stefano, E. and Clemenza, M. The Ruthenium-106 plume over Europe in 2017: A source-receptor model to estimate the source region. Atmospheric Environment, 212, pp.239-249, (2019).

Corella, J.P., Maffezzoli, N., Cuevas, C.A., Vallelonga, P., Spolaor, A., Cozzi, G., M ̈uller, J., Vinther, B., Barbante, C., Kjær, H.A. and Edwards, R. Holocene atmospheric iodine evolution over the North Atlantic. Climate of the Past, 15(6), (2019).

Cuevas, C.A., Maffezzoli, N., Corella, J.P., Spolaor, A., Vallelonga, P., Kjær, H.A., Simonsen, M., Winstrup, M., Vinther, B., Horvat, C., Fernandez, R.P., Kinnison, D., Lamarque, J-F., Barbante, C., and Saiz-Lopez, A., Rapid increase in atmospheric iodine levels in the North Atlantic since the mid-20th century, Nature Communications, 9, 1452 (2018).

Maffezzoli, N., Spolaor A., Barbante C., Bert`o M., Frezzotti M., Vallelonga P., Bromine, iodine and sodium in surface snow along the 2013 Talos Dome–GV7 traverse (northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica), The Cryosphere, (2017).

Vallelonga, P., Maffezzoli, N., Moy, A. D., Curran, M. A. J., Vance, T. R., Edwards, R., Hughes, G., Barker, E., Spreen, G., Saiz-Lopez, A., Corella, J. P., Cuevas, C. A., and Spolaor, A.: Sea-ice-related halogen enrichment at Law Dome, coastal East Antarctica, Climate of the Past, 13, 171-184, (2017).