Davide Faranda

01.69.08.85.41 Bat 714 - Piece 1007 Orme des Merisiers

Position

I am a CNRS (permanent) Researcher in Complex Systems at the LSCE laboratory of the University of Paris-Saclay, and the coordinator (chef d'equipe) of the ESTIMR group. Since September 2017, I am also external fellow of the London Mathematical Laboratory, London, United Kingdom and of the Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique de l'Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.

News

11-03-2021 Job Offer! Engineer Position open at LSCE-IPSL on Automation of statistical climate analyses
03-03-2021 Job Offer! Phd Position open within the ITN-H2020 project EDIPI
21-01-2021 Press Release: Mieux comprendre les limites des modèles épidémiologiques de COVID-19 grâce à une approche statistique et dynamique
17-11-2020 D. Faranda @ Palazzo Ducale - Genova: Cosa c'entra l'ecologia.
13-11-2020: Video de ma presentation d'Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches soutenue à L'UVSQ.
07-10-2020: Interview about the monster storm Alex and its relationship with climate change for France24
19-05-2020: Press Realese of the American Institue of Physics on our paper: "Modeling COVID19 data must be done with extreme care" [article available here]
26-03-2020: Je me presente dans "Moi au CEA".
17-01-2020: D. Faranda is the winner of the EGU2019 Blog post competition.
21-03-2019: Press Release: L'effet de hammam : quand l’océan chaud bouleverse les prévisions atmosphériques.
24-10-2017: D. Faranda is arwarded with the European Geoscience Union Nonlinear Processes Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award.
06-07-2017: Press Release: Un papillon de plus en plus Turbulent

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Research Interests

Extreme Value Theory and Climate Extremes

Classical Extreme value laws have been recently found for orbits of dynamical systems. The theory has been devised for a special class of observables which allow for a link between the concept of extremes and the lack of Poincaré recurrences around a chosen point of the phase space. My contributions in this fields of research are directed towards the understanding of the relation between the recurrences and the extreme events, the nite time behavior of asymptotic laws and the generalizations of theoretical aspects to climate extremes. I am particularly interested in cold and snowy spells, heatwaves and extreme convective events.

Critical Phenomena in Complex Systems: Climate, Finance and Epidemiology

The understanding of the mechanism regulating the transitions between different attracting states in complex systems is a general problem in statistical mechanics. Systems which feature critical phenomena range from spin glasses up to finance, the climate systems and epidemiology. I have been involved in developing rigorous statistical methods for detecting the transition thresholds in datasets and in the modeling of systems at bifurcation points via the so called ARMA (Auto Regressive Moving Average) processes technique.

Turbulent and Geophysical flows

Providing a statistical description of turbulence, by combining theoretical findings with high quality experimental datasets, is helping in understanding several features of turbulent flows as the dissipation anomaly or the existence of singularities in the Navier Stokes equations. I am actually contributing to this research field by developing statistical techniques based on the Extreme Value Theory and the ARMA process analysis which allows for quantify the distance between observations and theoretical models in a rich model-parameter space.

Publications

Preprints

Research Projects

ClimarisQ Project: Smartphone Android/IOS Game on climate extremes : ClimarisQ is a scientific mediation project that highlights the complexity of the climate system and the urgency of collective action to limit climate change. It is an app-game where players must make decisions to limit the frequency and impacts of extreme events. I am the Principal Investigator of ClimarisQ
ANR T-ERC "BOREAS": Bridging dynamic and thermOdynamical REsponse of coldspells of Anthropogenic forcing using Statistical mechanics : BOREAS assesses how climate change modify the frequency and intensity of snowstorms affecting European large populated areas in winter time. Anthropogenic emissions are responsible for temperature increase. I am the Principal Investigator of BOREAS
H2020-ITN "EDIPI": European weather Extremes: DrIvers, Predictability and Impacts : EDIPI (european weather Extremes: DrIvers, Predictability and Impacts) is an international consortium of universities, research centres and private companies aiming to further our holistic understanding of temperature, precipitation (incl. drought) and surface wind extremes over Europe. I am the French responsible for the project and work-package leader.
ANR "SAMPRACE": Sampling Rare Climate Events : SAMPRACE means « Sampling Rare Climate Events ». It is a project funded by the French ANR. The goal of the project is to devise statistical physics and mathematical methods to simulate rare events like heatwaves or cold spells in an efficient way. This web page contains ongoing elements of the project. I am partner of this project.
ERA4CS "EUPHEME": Placing Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Variability and Change : EUPHEME has three main objectives: 1) Develop state of the art methods for a range of timescales, and new techniques for evaluating their reliability, 2) Develop a scientific platform which hosts data, supports data processing and provides collaboration space for scientists using complementary methods and data sources. 3) Provide a user-oriented synthesis, disseminate consistent attribution assessments prototype attribution service website wide variety of stakeholders. I am the LSCE responsible of this project and WP3 co-leader.
LEFE-MANU-INSU-CNRS "DINCLIC" dynamical Indicators for Climate Change : The goal of DINCLIC is to determine the contributions of dynamics and thermodynamics patterns to rare events in conceptual atmospheric systems via the dynamical indicators (local dimensions, local stability). The applicability to real systems (reanalyses, observations, general circulation models, regional climate models) also will be assessed.

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

2020: HDR (Habilitation à diriger les Recherches), Earth Sciences -Sciences de la Terre
UVSQ, St Quentin en Yvelines, France, November 2020
Thesis: Physique Statistique des Evenements Extremes Geophysiques. [Thesis PdF, Presentation PdF, Presentation Movie]
2013: PhD, Earth Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany Mention: 1.0/1.0 magna cum laude, January 2013
Thesis: Extreme Value Theory for geophysical flows. [.pdf] Supervisor: Prof. Valerio Lucarini.
2010: Master of Science, Physics
Bologna University, Bologna, Italy Mention: 110/110 cum laude, July 2010
Thesis: Dynamical indicators of Stability in Non-Linear maps of low dimensionality. [.pdf] Supervisor: Prof. Giorgio Turchetti.
2008: Bachelor Degree, Atmospheric Physics and Meteorology
Bologna University, Bologna, Italy Mention: 110/110 cum laude, July 2008
Thesis: Characterization of stable and radioactive atmospheric tracers at the GAW M.te Cimone Station [.pdf] Supervisor: Prof. Laura Tositti.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2020-Now: External Fellow @ LMD-ENS, Paris, France
2017-Now: External Fellow @ London Mathematical Laboratory, London, UK.
2015-Now: Researcher (Chargé de Recherce) in Section 19 (Climate) and 52 (Interdisciplinary Science) @ LSCE-CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
2014-2015: Research Fellow (CDD) in thermodynamics and dynamics of geophysical flows @LSCE - CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Advisor: Dr. Pascal Yiou.
2013-2014: Post-doctoral research in Theoretical and Experimental Turbulence @ CNRS URA 2464 / SPEC - CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Advisor: Dr. Berengere Dubrulle.
2013-2013: Post-doctoral Research In Fluid Dynamics and Dynamical Systems@ University of Hamburg - Klimacampus, Hamburg , Germany. Advisor: Prof. Valerio Lucarini.
2009-2010: Tutor for students in Atmospheric Physics and Meteorology @ Bologna University, Bologna, Italy.

AWARDS

2019 Winner of the EGU Best Blog Posts of 2019 Competition
2018 European Geoscience Union Nonlinear Processes Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award.
2014 Distinguished citizen of the year of the town S.Agata Militello (Italy). Prize assigned under the patronage of the Ministry of Home affairs.
2014 Winner of the Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Awards at the European Geophysical Union general assembly - section Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences. Vienna.
2013 Selected for participating in the 1st Heidelberg Laureate Forum: a one-week event combining scientific, social and outreach activities featuring the winners of the awards in Mathematics and Computer Science, the Abel Prize, the Fields Medal (including the Nevanlinna Prize), and the ACM Turing Award, September .
2012 Winner of a sponsorship within the HPC-Europa2: Pan-European Research Infrastructure for High Performance Computing which covered a two months visit to LadHyX (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France) to collaborate with the Dr. P. Manneville and an amount of 50.000 CPU hours to perform simulations on fluid dynamic systems on CINES-GENCI facilities located in Montpellier, France.

SUPERVISION

2021: Lucas Fery (ENS Lyon M2 Student, co-supervision: B Dubrulle), "Statistical Physics of Atmospheric convection"
2021: DongYeon Lee (L3 Student, TALM - Ecole supérieure d'art et de design), "Outreach project Contac-T-erre"
2020-Now: Vaishnavi Borse (PhD Student, co-supervision: Soulivan Thao, Pascal Yiou, Mathieu Vrac) "Machine Learning for Non-stationary systems"
2020-Now: Flavio Pons (Postdctoral Researcher, Postdoctoral Researcher) "Cold spells and Climate Change: Project BOREAS"
2020: Soren Francois (M2 student) "Stochastic Extreme Events generator for ClimarisQ game"
2020: Clement Dehondt (Ecole Centrale Master Student, co-supervision: Sebastien Fromang) "Extreme Energy transfers in hurricanes"
2020: Vincent de Menezes (M1 Student)
2019: Adnane Hamid (M2 Student, co-supervision: Valerie Gautard, Soulivanh Thao, Mathieu Vrac, Pascal Yiou)
2019: Cedric Ngonge Langue (M2 Student, co-supervision: Valerie Gautard, Soulivanh Thao, Mathieu Vrac, Pascal Yiou)
2018-2019: Takumi Chihara (M1,M2 coencandrant Y. Sato, Hokkaido University, Japan)
2018-2019: Sheng Chen (Postdoctoral Researcher, Project EUPHEME)
2017: Alix Goudyme (M2 co-supervision : B. Dubrulle SPEC-CEA Saclay)
2016: Guillaume Névo (M2 co-supervision : B. Dubrulle SPEC-CEA Saclay)
2016: David Rodrigues (M1 co-supervision: P. Yiou LSCE-CEA Saclay)

TEACHING

2021: Classes in Dynamical Systems, M2 Geoscience, ENS Paris [8h]
2021: Classes in Statistical tools for climate Risk, M2 ECLAT, UPS, Saclay [5h]
2020: Class in Dynamical Systems ,Master in Mathematics, FU Berlin [2h]
2019: Class in Dynamical Systems ,Master in Mathematics, FU Berlin [2h]
2018: Class in Physics of Climate, Master Athens, AGROPARISTECH, Paris [3h]

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSABILITIES

Group coordinator (Chef d'Equipe) ESTIMR (~15 members).
Elected member of the LSCE laboratory council.
EGU Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Scientific Officer.
Organiser of the bimestrial inter-laboratory seminars “Climate and Statistical Mechanics”, between the laboratories SPEC & LSCE at CEA Saclay, France.
Member of the Editorial board of the Journal Chaos AIP

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

2020-2021: Parcours Science ASTS
2020-2021: Responsible of the outreach project video Game ClimarisQ
2019-2021: Author & Editor of the EGU – NP Blog
2020: Participation in “Che cosa c’entra l’ecologia”, Genova, Palazzo Ducale, Italy
2019: Participation in « Repubblica dei Terrestri » Naples, Italy

INTERESTS

Cooking,
Electronic music,
Building-bricks design (LEGO).