Join the CMCC Lecture "Modelling wildfires: current understanding, new approaches, remaining challenges" to explore why wildfires matter more than ever in a changing climate.

13 May 2026, 12:00 CEST
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In this CMCC Lecture, Sandy P. Harrison, Professor of Global Palaeoclimates and Biogeochemical Cycles at the University of Reading and CMCC Bassi Fellow, will showcase new approaches to modelling wildfires, including the development and application of empirical data-driven models and machine-learning to simulate wildfires, the use of large ensemble modelling to capture extreme behaviour and uncertainty, and the application of eco-evolutionary optimality theory to provide a more robust coupling between vegetation and wildfire.

Learn how science is redefining our understanding through the perspective of a leading international expert in wildfire science and climate–vegetation interactions, who will share insights drawn from decades of influential research at the forefront of Earth System science. 

• Speaker: Sandy P. Harrison, Professor of Global Palaeoclimates and Biogeochemical Cycles, University of Reading
• Discussant: Soheil Shayegh, CMCC
• Moderator: Manuela Balzarolo, CMCC

The event is part of the CMCC Lectures webinar series, which presents frontier topics and solutions in climate sciences and action, through the insights of leading experts.