Raffaele Ferrari
Professor at MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRaffaele Ferrari is a professor of oceanography at MIT who studies how ocean and atmospheric turbulence shape marine ecosystems, the carbon cycle, and climate across past, present, and future timescales. He leads the Bottom Boundary Layer observational program in the North Atlantic to quantify deep-ocean mixing and co-directs multi-institution initiatives that apply AI to climate modeling, including the Caltech-JPL-MIT Climate Modeling Alliance and MIT’s Bringing Computation to the Climate Challenge. Trained at Scripps (PhD) and Torino (Physics BA), he blends theoretical fluid dynamics with large-scale observational programs and model development to speed delivery of usable climate information. Beyond conventional academia, he focuses on creating fast emulators of full climate models to democratize climate insights—an effort that bridges cutting-edge computation and hands-on fieldwork.
7 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Oceanography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Oceanography at Scripps Institution of OceanographyBachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Università degli Studi di Torino
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (18)
machine-learning10
earth10
climate-change10
gpu10
noaa10
fluid-dynamics10
ocean10
julia10
atmosphere9
soil9
climate-science9
carbon-emissions9
earth-science8
orbital-mechanics6
climate-model6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rafferrari/rafferrari.github.io
Jun 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
rafferrari/PGModels1Dand2D
Aug 2025 - Aug 2025
Finite difference models for the 1D (single column) and 2D (vertical slice) planetary geostrophic equations.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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