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Oct 2024: Accepted paper “Space-time extremes of severe US thunderstorm environments” in JASA
Sep 2024: Plenary talk at the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) discussion meeting, at the RSS annual conference in Brighton, UK. Sign up here! Slides here
Sep 2024: Invited talk at the RSS annual conference in Brighton, UK
Aug 2024: Accepted paper “Extreme-value modelling of migratory bird arrival dates: Insights from citizen science data” in JRSSa, with discussion
Jul 2024: New paper “Tail calibration of probabilistic forecasts” on ArXiv
Jun 2024: Plenary talk at IMSC’15 in Toulouse, France
Jun 2024: Our whitepaper “How to use the power of AI to reduce the impact of climate change on Switzerland” is now available online
Apr 2024: Research visit at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics ISM, Tokyo
Mar 2024: Accepted paper “Convection-permitting climate models can support observations to generate rainfall return levels” in Water Resources Research
Feb 2024: Invited talk at Causality in Extremes in Geneva, Switzerland
Jan 2024: New paper “Using spatial extreme-value theory with machine learning to model and understand spatially compounding weather extremes” on ArXiv
Jan 2024: Particpation in the U.S. Government Accountability Office expert meeting on “AI in Natural Hazard Modeling: Severe Storms, Hurricanes, Floods, and Wildfires (GAO-24-106213)”. Report publicly available here

Dec 2023: New paper “Extreme-value modelling of migratory bird arrival dates: Insights from citizen science data” on ArXiv
Nov 2023: New discussion “Next-Generation Earth System Models: Towards Reliable Hybrid Models for Weather and Climate Applications” on ArXiv
Jun 2023: Invited talk at EVA’23 in Milan, Italy
May 2023: IMAG Workshop at the Institute of Mathematics in the University of Granada, Spain
Apr 2023: Seminar talk at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Apr 2023: Invited talk at the YoungStatS webinar
Apr 2023: Invited talk at VALPRED 4 in Aussois, France
Mar 2023: Lecture and practicals on “Crossing the bridge from univariate to multivariate extremes”, for MSc students part of the ATHENS network at École des Mines de Paris, France

Oct 2022: Accepted paper “Gradient boosting with extreme-value theory for wildfire prediction” in Extremes
Oct 2022: Accepted paper “On the temporal clustering of European extreme precipitation events and its relationship to persistent and transient large-scale atmospheric drivers” in Weather and Climate Extremes
Oct 2022: Seminar talk at INRAe, Avignon, France
Sep 2022: I will lecture a new course 477874-HS2022-0: Statistical modelling of extremes at the University of Bern in Fall 2022
Sep 2022: Invited talk at the DAMOCLES Compound Events Final Conference in Lisbon, Portugal
Aug 2022: Invited talk at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Washington, D.C., United States
Jul 2022: Research visit at the Department of Statistics, Colorado State University
Jul 2022: Research visit (STSM) at L’unité de Biostatistique et processus SPatiaux (BioSP), INRAe, Avignon, France
May 2022: Accepted paper “Spatiotemporal wildfire modeling through point processes with moderate and extreme marks” in Annals of Applied Statistics
Feb 2022: Seminar talk at the RCS Seminar, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Feb 2022: I have started a post-doctoral researcher position at the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, working with Prof. Johanna Ziegel and Prof. Olivia Martius
Jan 2022: New paper “Space-time extremes of severe US thunderstorm environments” on ArXiv