Research Focus

  • My research interests are mid-latitude weather and climate, storm track and jet stream dynamics, variability and predictability, extreme weather events (e.g., extreme extratropical cyclones, windstorms, marine and land cold air outbreaks, heatwaves) and their impacts, drivers of extreme weather in present and future climate.

  • Exploring the potential for improving the prediction skill of surface weather in mid-latitude and polar regions on subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S; beyond 10 days and up to three months) timescales.

  • I also have an ongoing interest in understanding the impact of climate change on extratropical storms and windstorm damage over Europe using CMIP6 and a wide range of statistical tools and platforms.

  • Stratosphere-troposphere coupling and stratospheric impact on mid-latitude weather and climate, particularly the impact of Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) and strong polar vortex events on extratropical storm tracks, jet streams and cold extremes.

Projects

Starting in January 2025, I will lead my research project as an Ambizione Fellow at the University of Bern, supported by a four-year fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

The project's goal ("Forecasting midlatitude storm impacts beyond current predictability limits") is to improve the prediction of extreme winter storms in the North Atlantic and Europe over sub-seasonal to seasonal time scales - ranging from two weeks to two months. By using state-of-the-art idealised climate models, statistical methods, machine learning, and risk assessment models, the project aims to identify key atmospheric factors and precursors that drive the frequency and intensity of mid-latitude storms.

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

  • Exploring the predictability of winter North Atlantic storm track in sub-seasonal re-forecasts 

  • The downward impact of the stratosphere in current and future climates (my Marie Sklodowska-Curie research project: stratoIMPACT).

  • Winter windstorm impact in Europe in a changing climate

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

I have a PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science, where I worked with Prof. Yohai Kaspi on the seasonal cycle of midlatitude storm tracks and the "Midwinter Suppression" of transient eddies in the North Pacific using idealised GCMs.

I did my postdoctoral research at ETH Zürich, working with Prof. Dr. Daniela Domeisen in the group on Atmospheric Predictability. I am a recipient of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. I also participated in the EU Horizon2020 research Project "Blue-Action" for understanding the impact of the Arctic on European weather and climate.

Since 2024, I am also affiliated with the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland, as a postdoc in the Atmospheric Process group.