About me

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My name is Claudia and I am a physicist with a passion for applied meteorology. I love putting weather data, analyses, and forecasts to practical use, especially when they deal with weather and climate extremes.
My work mainly focuses on heatwaves – their trends to date, their prediction into the future and their impacts on human health. I leverage this work to design and implement innovative tools that can timely support disaster risk management in areas hit by hazardous temperatures.

INTERESTS

Weather- and climate-induced health hazards
Climatology, forecast and impact of extreme events
Early warning systems for health hazards
Climate services for health

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023-present Scientist, ECMWF
2020–2023 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Reading
2019–2020 Scientist, ECMWF
2017–2018 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Reading
2014–2016 Research Meteorologist, Provincia Autonoma di Trento

QUALIFICATIONS

2023 Associate Professor (Italian Ministry of University and Research)
2014 PhD (Cardiff University)
2010 MSc (cum laude, Università degli Studi di Padova)
2007 BSc (Università degli Studi di Padova)

AWARDS

2021 – Geoscience Data Journal Editors’ Award, Royal Meteorological Society
2020 – Award for best scientific paper, S.W. Tromp Foundation for Biometeorological Research
2018 – Travel award to young scientists (TFTAYS), S.W. Tromp Foundation for Biometeorological Research
2016 – Institute of Physics Environmental Physics essay competition winner