Filippo Giorgi obtained a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, Georgia, in 1986. From 1986 to 1998 he was a scientist at the
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. In
1998 he moved to the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical
Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, where he is the head of the Earth System
Physics (ESP) section.

Giorgi has authored over 420 papers in peer-reviewed scientific
journals and is one of the most cited scientists in the geosciences. In 2020 a
study by Stanford University based on multiple bibliometric indicators
placed him as number 11 (out of 54940) in the list of most influencial
scientists in the field of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics.
Giorgi contributed to the first 5 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC). From 2002 to 2008 he was one of the vice chairs of
Working Group I of the IPCC, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Among his awards is the 2018 Alexander von Humboldt medal of the
European Geosciences Union (EGU) in recognition of his outstanding
contributions to climate research and to the progress of science in
developing countries.