I am an Asst. Professor in Climate and Geo-spatial Modelling, with a background and training in environmental epidemiology, econometrics and sectoral impacts assessment of climate change and variability. I specialise in real-time monitoring and forecast of heat stress and the associated mortality, and the development of Early Action Protocols for heat and health. Having developed programming skills during my under-graduate and post-graduate degree programmes, I am passionate about coding, especially developing workflows on cloud platforms for processing terabytes of earth data. I am also passionate about communicating science to the wider public, by visiting schools and engaging with media organisations to promote greater awareness of extremes in climate and its associated impacts.

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.