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Research

My research aims to improve our understanding of climate variability, climate extremes, and their impacts on society. I combine climate dynamics, numerical modelling, statistical analysis, and artificial intelligence to investigate how the Earth system works and how climate hazards affect people.

🌊 Climate Variability

Understanding the mechanisms driving climate variability across sub-seasonal to multi-decadal timescales.

My research has focused on the tropical Atlantic Ocean, the Atlantic Niño, and the West African Monsoon. I investigate how ocean–atmosphere interactions influence rainfall variability and how these relationships may evolve under future climate change.

Topics

  • Atlantic Niño
  • West African Monsoon
  • Ocean–atmosphere interactions, and teleconnections
  • Climate projections

🌍 Climate Extremes

Climate extremes rarely occur in isolation. My research investigates compound events, such as droughts occurring together with heatwaves or floods, and their impacts on societies.

I develop methods to detect compound events and quantify how they amplify socio-economic impacts worldwide.

Topics

  • Heatwaves
  • Droughts
  • Floods
  • Compound events
  • Disaster impacts

🤖 Artificial Intelligence for Climate Science

Artificial intelligence offers new opportunities to accelerate climate research.

I participate in a project aiming to develop Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Model (LLM) approaches to extract information on climate impacts from textual data, including Wikipedia, contributing to global climate-impact databases. Our first dataset, Wikimpacts 1.0, contains over 32,000 climate-impact records extracted from Wikipedia, at sub-national levels.

Topics

  • Large Language Models
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Climate databases
  • Information extraction

❤️ Climate & Health

Climate change increasingly affects human health through heat stress, infectious diseases, and other environmental risks.

My current research investigates how climate extremes translate into human exposure and health impacts, with a particular interest in developing indicators useful for adaptation planning.

Topics

  • Heat stress
  • Human exposure
  • Climate adaptation
  • Public health

Current Projects

  • Compound climate extremes and socio-economic impacts
  • AI-assisted climate impact databases
  • Climate extremes and human health
  • Marine heatwaves in the tropical Atlantic