Creating climate resilience for the most vulnerable.

We have collective responsibility to protect those most impacted by climate change.

Humans and their ecosystems are at the center of building resilience. My work focuses on empowering people, communities and governments to tackle the multiple dimensions of climate change.

Bridging climate science and humanitarian aid.

Services

  • Weather & Climate Services

    Tailored assessment of hydrometeorological and climate risks including scenarios of climate change based on satellite imaginary and climate model simulations. Development of climate services such as early warning systems or sector-specific services. Mapping using WebGIS technologies.

  • Programs & Policy

    Consulting on policy dialogue, strategy development and climate finance. Identification, design and evaluation of climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs from local to regional intergovernmental scale.

  • Training

    Communication, teaching and training on climate change, environmental protection and disaster risk reduction in academia, international conferences and public forums.

  • Humanitarian Assistance

    Member of Swiss Humanitarian Aid (SHA) unit and trained for rapid response in emergencies for natural hazard management. Experience of multiple missions in the field.

Anticipation and prevention creates resilience.

Projects

  • Anticipatory Aid

    Climate risks cause frequent disasters in the Andean countries affecting more than half a million people every year. Acting before disasters occur can substantially reduce these impacts. This collaboration I have setup between SDC, the Zurich Foundation and the Red Cross Climate Center, aims to strengthen the anticipatory mechanism.

  • AUGUR

    Augur helps to dimension flood protection and risk-informed site planning anywhere on the globe. It is an initiative funded by the “Innovation meets practice” accelerator of the Swiss Agency of Development and Cooperation, aiming to make satellite data and climate change information accessible for humanitarian actors.

  • Early Warning Systems

    This storytelling illustrates Switzerland’s Multi Hazard Early Warning System (MHEWS). It was showcased at the innovation platform of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) in Geneva 2019 and highlights the importance of multi-sectorial governance structures to enable efficient early warning at national scale.

  • Wildfires in the Amazon

    Information on imminent climate hazards and mapping using GIS services is a crucial aspect in disaster response. SDC effectively enabled rapid satellite tracking of fire hotspots to fight the amazonian wildfires in Bolivia in 2019. Such services shall be made avaible through Weather4UN in the future.

  • The future of amazonia?

    The amazon rainforest is highly vulnerable to the consequences of climate change. Together with the photography museum Winterthur (www.fotomuseum.ch) we discussed the implications of climate change for the indigenous communities and prospects to create resilience.

  • Research: Extreme Events

    In this publication in Nature Communications we contribute to the quantification of the role of climate change on past extreme weather and climate events. We present a methodology on how to correct for some short-comings in climate models to increase the robustness of event attribution.

About

Dr. sc. ETH Climate Physics
Swiss Humanitarian Aid SHA

 

I am a climate scientist with more than 12 years of experience in international climate research and development cooperation on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), representing the government of Switzerland as expert for Swiss Humanitarian Aid (SHA) or currently for the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss).

2022 - now Scientist international cooperation at MeteoSwiss for Weather, Water, and Climate Services (WWCS) in Tajikistan.
2017 - now Member of Swiss Humanitarian Aid (SHA) of the Swiss Agency of Development and Cooperation.
2018 - 2021 Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Expert for the Swiss Agency of Development and Cooperation in the Andes and at Headquarters.
2014 - 2018 European Space Agency Living Planet research fellow at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
2009 - 2013 PhD and Post-Doc at the Federal Institute of Technology of Switzerland (ETH) in climate physics.