Bio
I am passionate about developing open-source climate information for locally-led adaptation decision-making through research and open-source software development. With a background in Mathematical Physics (MSc) and Environmental Change and Management (MSc), I worked in climate finance for three years, assessing the alignment of the financial markets in major European economies with climate mitigation targets, and on adaptation finance as part of the Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs. Aside from work, I enjoy dancing, reading, organising scavenger hunts and spending time outdoors with friends.
Research Interests
My research aims to understand long-range teleconnections in the climate system which can act as sources of predictability at subseasonal to seasonal timescales and can aid the dynamical interpretation of future changes, by combining representation learning approaches from machine learning with causal inference methods. In my PhD, I have so far developed a generative machine learning method to identify physically robust dynamical drivers of extreme precipitation over Morocco. My current work focuses on extending this approach to develop machine learning methods to jointly learn reduced representations of high-dimensional climatic processes along with their causal relationships. My PhD is supervised by Marlene Kretschmer and Ted Shepherd, and based at the University of Reading.
I also co-developed the open-source Python package ibicus for the bias adjustment of climate models and am interested in understanding the role of values in the way we do science. I also coordinate the Early Career Researcher Group in the ‘My Climate Risk’ Lighthouse Activity of the World Climate Research Program - reach out if you are interested to learn more.
Curriculum Vitae
PhD Student
University of Reading, Reading, UK
Mercator Fellow on International Affairs
OASIS, Coalition on Climate Resilient Investment - London, UK; ICCCAD, Dhaka, Bangladesh; ECMWF, Summer of Weather Code, Reading, UK
Senior Analyst
2 Degrees Investing Initiative, Berlin, Germany and London, UK
Education
BSc Physics (Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany); MSc Mathematical Physics (University of Edinburgh, UK); MSc Environmental Change and Management (University of Oxford, UK)