Izidine Pinto is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in a vibrant multi-disciplinary research centre. Pinto holds both an MSc and a PhD degree in Environmental and Geographical Science from UCT from 2015. His research focuses on the development of regional climate change information through the framework of distillation, downscaling and understanding the driving dynamics, and relevant methodological developments for the tailoring of climate information to stakeholder needs. This work is part of the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) project. He is also working on the understanding of changes in albedo and the effect on the local climate of Southern Africa.