Publications

Preprints

Research Projects

• MITI Project UNDERPIN: UNDERPIN aims at bridging experts in statistical physics, statistics, dynamical systems and climate sciences to study persistent, high-impact climate extremes such as heatwaves, cold-spells and slow-moving cyclones. These events may be conceptualized as arising from situations where the large-scale atmospheric flow in the midlatitudes is extremely zonal or blocked and meandering.
• 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 Project “XAIDA" eXtreme events : Artificial Intelligence for Detection and Attribution:   Fifteen European research institutes are joining forces with climate risk practitioners to better assess and predict the influence of climate change on extreme weather using novel artificial intelligence methods. Within XAIDA I am leader on Work Package on Convective Events.
• 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

• 2022-Now: Pradeebane Vaittinada (Postdoctoral Researcher, co-supervision: Mathieu Vrac, Projet XAIDA) “Attirbution of tropical and Mediterranean cyclones to climate change".
• 2022-Now: Lucas Fery (PhD student, co-supervision: Berengere Dubrulle, These Numerics CEA) “Sobers simulations of convective atmospheric extreme events".
• 2022 Vivien Guette (Master Student, co-supervision: Robin Noyelle, Sylvie Charbit) "Dynamcial indicators for the jet dynamics".
• 2021-Now: Nemo Malhomme (PhD student, co-supervision: Berengere Podvin, Lionel Mathelin, These 80prime CNRS) “Machine Learning techniques for atmospheric convective events".
• 2021-Now: Mireia Ginesta Fernandez (PhD Student, co-supervision: Pascal Yiou, Project EDIPI) “Attribution of explosive extratropical cyclones to climate change”.
• 2021-Now: Robin Noyelle (PhD Student, co-supervision: Pascal Yiou): “Rare Events algorithms for climate sciences”.
• 2021-Now: Andreia Hisi (Postdoctoral Research, co-supervision: Mathieu Vrac): “Automatization techniques for attribution of climate extremes".
• 2020-Now: Vaishnavi Borse (Research Associate, co-encadrement : Soulivanh Thao, Pascal Yiou, M Vrac): “Machine learning methods for climate change”.
• 2021-Now: Lia Rapella (Erasmus Student): "Evaluating the impacts of climate change on renewable energies".
• 2021: Lucas Fery (étudiant M2- ENS Lyion, co-encadrement : Berengere Dubrulle): “Latent dirichlet Allocation for geophysical flows".
• 2021-2022: Akim Viennent (étudiant M2- ENS Paris, co-encadrement : Nikki Vercauteren FU Berlin): “Covariant Lyapunov vectors and dimensionality reduction methods for geophysical variables".
• 2021 : Robin Durand (étudiant M2-ENS, co-encadrement : Mathieu Vrac) : “Correction of atmospheric circulation biases in present and future climate simulations”.
• 2021 : Dongjeon Lee (étudiant L3, Ecole de Beaux Arts de Tours) : “ContacTerre : valoriser les sciences du climat à travers l’art”.
• 2020-2021: Tanguy Jonville (étudiant Polytechnique, co-encadrement : Nathalie de Noblet): “Methodological issues in attributing extreme heat events to afforestation and reforestation”.
• 2020-2021 : Flavio Pons (Chercheur post-doctoral, Chercheur postdoctoral, Projet BOREAS): “Dynamics of cold spells in climate change”.
• 2020 : Soren François (étudiant M2, Projet ClimarisQ): "Generator of extreme climatic events depending on the CO2 concentration”.
• 2020 : Clément Dehondt (Master de l'Ecole Centrale, co-encadrement : Sébastien Fromang): “Extreme energy transfers in tropical cyclones”.
• 2020 : Vincent de Menezes (étudiant M1): "Machine Learning Methods for non-stationary attractors”.
• 2019 : Adnane Hamid (étudiant M2, co-encadrement : V Gautard, S Thao, M Vrac, P Yiou): "Machine Learning Methods for Chaotic Attractors".
• 2017: Alix Goudyme (M2 co-supervision : B. Dubrulle SPEC-CEA Saclay): "Persistence of specific states of chaotic attractors".
• 2016: Guillaume Névo (M2 co-supervision : B. Dubrulle SPEC-CEA Saclay): "Early Warning signals in geophysical and financial problems"
• 2017: David Rodriguez (L3): "Assessing the dynamics of CMIP5 models via Dynamical Systems metrics".

TEACHING

• 2023: Master class in Dynamical Systems, M2 Geoscience, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris [10h]
• 2022: Master class in Approaches of dynamical systems to Geophysics, Master in Matematica, Scuola Normale di Pisa, Pisa, Italy [10h]
• 2022: Master class in Dynamical Systems, M2 Geoscience, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris [8h]
• 2021: Master class in Dynamical Systems, M2 Geoscience, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris [8h]
• 2021: Master Class in Statistical tools for climate Risk, M2 ECLAT, Université Paris Saclay, Saclay [5h] 
• 2021: Master Class in Physics of Climate, CIRED, Master EEET, [3h]
• 2020: Marser Class in Dynamical Systems ,Master in Mathematics, FU Berlin [2h]
• 2019: Master Class in Dynamical Systems ,Master in Mathematics, FU Berlin [2h]
• 2018: Master Class in Physics of Climate, Master Athens, AGROPARISTECH, Paris [3h]

CURRENT INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSABILITIES

• Group coordinator (Chef d'Equipe) ESTIMR (~30 members).
• Elected member of the OVSQ 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
• Editor for Physica D
• Member of the bureau of the Groupment de Recherche CNRS:  "Défis Théoriques pour les Sciences du Climat"

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

• 2020-202*: Several interviews for the national and internation press and television.
• 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.

PRIVATE INTERESTS

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

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