I am a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow (MSCF) with background and training in climate modelling, econometrics and sectoral impacts assessment of climate change and variability. FolIowing my MSc in Weather and Climate Modelling from the University of Reading, U.K., I completed my PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy (Unive).
I have previously held academic and research positions at Unive, the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) - Italy, and Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) - Spain. Beyond research and academia, I sailed as a navigating officer onboard research and seismic survey ships, engaged in data acquisition of seabed profiles for offshore oil and gas industry.
Affiliations
Teaching
I am a teaching assistant in the hands-on programming (in R) as part of the: (i) Programming module in MSc Health Data Science, and (ii) Introduction to Statistical Computing in Msc Medical Statistics. In addition, I also teach 'Methods for Health Impact Assessment of Climate Change' in the Environmental Epidemiology module [D2: 1301] of the MSc Public Health and MSc Climate Change & Planetary Health programmes. I have previously been a Module Organiser of the Environmental Health Policy module in MSc Public Health.
Research
Am part of the Environment and Health Modelling (EHM) Lab (https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/ehm-lab) that focuses on developing and applying state-of-the-art modelling tools to investigate environmental health risks. My research interests include big data, sectoral impacts of climate change and variability, development of climate extreme and human discomfort indices for health impacts assessment and geospatial analysis. My other interests include High Performance Computing (HPC) and climate data visualisation.
My current research as part of MSCF focuses on assessing temperature and humidity related mortality risk in current and future climate using high-resolution climate data from observations and climate model simulations.
Am also a co-admin of the LSHTM R Users Group (https://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/rusers/), and an avid user of Python and Julia (in addition to R).
Selected Publications
