Anna Lombardi

Climate Data Visualizer
Forecast, Evaluation, Climate Intelligence

Summary:

Anna Lombardi works as a Climate Data Visualiser in the Climate Intelligence team.

She has an interdisciplinary background spanning across physics, science communication and information design. Anna has completed a PhD in experimental physics at the University of Lyon (France) and worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge, working across the domains of nano-optics, spectroscopy and plasmonics. In 2018 she obtained a MSc in science communication from the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste (Italy).

Before joining ECMWF, she spent five years at The Times and The Sunday Times in London as a senior data and graphics journalist, specialising in visual journalism and finding stories in data.

Career background:
  • 2023–present Climate Data Visualiser, ECMWF - Copernicus, Climate Intelligence team (UK/Germany)
  • 2018–2023 Senior data and visual journalist, The Times and Sunday Times (UK)
  • 2016–2018 MSc science communication (Trieste, Italy)
  • 2013–2016 Nanophotonics Group, Cambridge University (UK)
  • 2013–2010 PhD in Experimental Physics, Université Lyon 1 (France)
  • 2008–2010 MSc Physics, Universitá Cattolica di Brescia (Italy)
  • F. Di Giuseppe, J. McNorton, A. Lombardi, F. Wetterhall, Nature Communications 16, 2918 (2025)
  • D.A. Lavers, G. Villarini, H.L. Cloke, A. Simmons, N. Roberts, A. Lombardi, S. Burgess, F. Pappenberger, Meteorological Applications, ISSN 1469-8080 (2025)
  • State of Wildfires report 2023, Earth System Science Data, 16(8), 3601-3685 (2024)
  • C. Hubert, C. Chomette, A. Désert, A. Madeira, A. Perro, I. Florea, D. Ihiawakrim, O. Ersen, A. Lombardi, E. Pertreux, F. Vialla, P. Maioli, A. Crut, N. Del Fatti, F. Vallée, J. Majimel, S. Ravaine, E. Duguet, M. Tréguer-Delapierre, Nanoscale Horizon 6(4), 311-318 (2021)
  • A. Lombardi, M.K. Schmidt, L. Weller, W. M. Deacon, F. Benz, B. de Nijs, J. Aizpurua, J.J. Baumberg, Phys. Rev. X 8, 011016 (2018)
  • T. Ding, J. Mertens, A. Lombardi, O.A. Sherman, J.J. Baumberg, ACS Photonics 4 (6), 1453-1458 (2017)
  • G. Di Martino, V. Turek, C. Tserkezis, A. Lombardi, A. Kuhn, J.J. Baumberg, Faraday Discussions (2017) DOI: 10.1039/C7FD00130D
  • W.M. Deacon, A. Lombardi, F. Benz, Y. Del Valle-Inclan Redondo, R. Chikkaraddy, B. de Nijs, M.-E. Kleeman, J. Mertens, J.J. Baumberg, Physical Review Letters 119 (2), 023901 (2017)
  • G. Di Martino, V. A. Turek, A. Lombardi, I. Szabò, B. De nijs, A. Kuhn, E. Rosta, J.J. Baumberg, Nano Letters 17 (8), 4840-4845 (2017)
  • A. Lombardi, A. Demetriadou, L. Weller, P. Andrae, F. Benz, R. Chikkaraddy, J. Aizpurua, J.J. Baumberg, ACS Photonics 3 (3), 471–477 (2016)
  • L. Weller, V.V. Thacker, L.O. Herrmann, E.A. Hemmig, A. Lombardi, U.F. Keyser, J.J. Baumberg, ACS Photonics (2016)
  • A. Sanders, R.W. Bowman, L. Zhang, V. Turek, D.O. Sigle, A. Lombardi, L. Weller, J.J. Baumberg, Applied Physics Letters 109 (15), 153110 (2016)
  • A. Lombardi, M.P. Grzelczak, E. Pertreux, A. Crut, P. Maioli, I. Pastoriza-Santos, L. M. Liz-Marzán, F. Vallée, N. Del Fatti, Nano Letters 16 (10), 6311-6316 (2016)
  • M.-E. Kleeman, J. Mertens, X. Zheng, S. Cormier, V. Turek, F. Benz, R. Chikkaraddy, W. Deacon, A. Lombardi, V.V. Moshchaikov, G.A.E. Vanderbosch, J.J. Baumberg, ACS Nano 11 (1), 850-855 (2016)
  • E. Pertreux, A. Lombardi, I. Florea, M. Spuch-Calvar, S. Gómez-Graña, D. Ihiawakrim, C. Hirlimann, O. Ersen, J. Majimel, M. Tréguer-Delapierre, M. Hettich, P. Maioli, A. Crut, F. Vallée, N. Del Fatti, Advanced Optical Materials 4 (4), 567 (2015)
  • A. Lombardi, M. P. Grzelczak, A. Crut, P. Maioli, I. Pastoriza-Santos, L. M. Liz-Marzán, N. Del Fatti, F. Vallée, ACS Nano 7, 2522-2531 (2013)
  • V. Juvé, M. F. Cardinal, A. Lombardi, A. Crut, P. Maioli, J. Perez-Juste, L. M. Liz-Marzán, N. Del Fatti, F. Vallée, Nano Letters 13, 2234–2240 (2013)
  • A. Lombardi, M. Loumaigne, A. Crut, P. Maioli, N. Del Fatti, F. Vallée, M. Spuch-Calvar, J. Burgin, J. Majimel, M. Tréguer-Delapierre, Langmuir 28, 9027-9033 (2012)
  • M. Loumaigne, P. Vasanthakumar, A. Lombardi, A. Richard, A. Débarre, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 15, 4154-4162 (2012)
  • Y. R. Davletshin, A. Lombardi, M. F. Cardinal, V. Juvé, A. Crut, P. Maioli, L. M. Liz-Marzán, F. Vallée, N. Del Fatti, J. C. Kumaradas, ACS Nano 6, 8183–8193 (2012)