After the Mathematical degree in 1999 and three years of teaching experience, Dr. Davide MELFI joined the Italian Air Force Meteorological Service in January 2004.

Since then he is assigned to the Satellite Section of the COMet (Centro Operativo per la Meteorologia). He is the developer of the NEFODINA Software, an algorithm to assess the presence of thunderstorms and their intensity from VIS-IR sensors, and he is responsible for the Algorithm Integration and Product generation for HSAF Project. For the same Project, since July 2014, he is part of the Management as Science Manager and since May 2015 he is the Precipitation Cluster Leader.

In the last six years he has been involved in the EUMETSAT training as one of the teacher of the International School On Applications with the Newest Multi-Spectral Environmental Satellites.

He is the Italian delegate in the STG Operations Working Group and the Italian representative in the Convection Working Group of EUMETSAT.