Academic activity

News

June: Article “Dragons or snakes: The impact of Chinese astrology on marriages and births” now online in Significance.
May: Our reply to our RSS discussion paper is now online and will appear in JRSSa. Thank you to the Proposer, Seconder and the discussion contributors for discussing our work!
May: Accepted paper “Using spatial extreme-value theory with machine learning to model and understand spatially compounding weather extremes” in PRSA.
Apr: Accepted paper “Tail calibration of probabilistic forecasts” in JASA.
Feb: I have started a Senior Scientist position in the Seminar for Statistics at ETH Zurich. I am teaching Computational Statistics in the Spring 2025 semester.

Dec: My student Carmen Steinmann (co-supervised with David Bresch) has just defended her PhD. Congratulations!
Oct: Accepted paper “Space-time extremes of severe US thunderstorm environments” in JASA.
Sep: Plenary talk at the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) discussion meeting, at the RSS annual conference in Brighton, UK. Sign up here! Slides here
Sep: Invited talk at the RSS annual conference in Brighton, UK
Aug: Accepted paper “Extreme-value modelling of migratory bird arrival dates: Insights from citizen science data” in JRSSa, with discussion
Jul: New paper “Tail calibration of probabilistic forecasts” on ArXiv
Jun: Plenary talk at IMSC’15 in Toulouse, France
Jun: Our whitepaper “How to use the power of AI to reduce the impact of climate change on Switzerland” is now available online
Apr: Research visit at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics ISM, Tokyo
Mar: Accepted paper “Convection-permitting climate models can support observations to generate rainfall return levels” in Water Resources Research
Feb: Invited talk at Causality in Extremes in Geneva, Switzerland
Jan: New paper “Using spatial extreme-value theory with machine learning to model and understand spatially compounding weather extremes” on ArXiv
Jan: 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: New paper “Extreme-value modelling of migratory bird arrival dates: Insights from citizen science data” on ArXiv
Nov: New discussion “Next-Generation Earth System Models: Towards Reliable Hybrid Models for Weather and Climate Applications” on ArXiv
Jun: Invited talk at EVA’23 in Milan, Italy
May: IMAG Workshop at the Institute of Mathematics in the University of Granada, Spain
Apr: Seminar talk at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Apr: Invited talk at the YoungStatS webinar
Apr: Invited talk at VALPRED 4 in Aussois, France
Mar: 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: Accepted paper “Gradient boosting with extreme-value theory for wildfire prediction” in Extremes
Oct: 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: Seminar talk at INRAe, Avignon, France
Sep: I will lecture a new course 477874-HS2022-0: Statistical modelling of extremes at the University of Bern in Fall 2022
Sep: Invited talk at the DAMOCLES Compound Events Final Conference in Lisbon, Portugal
Aug: Invited talk at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Washington, D.C., United States
Jul: Research visit at the Department of Statistics, Colorado State University
Jul: Research visit (STSM) at L’unité de Biostatistique et processus SPatiaux (BioSP), INRAe, Avignon, France
May: Accepted paper “Spatiotemporal wildfire modeling through point processes with moderate and extreme marks” in Annals of Applied Statistics
Feb: Seminar talk at the RCS Seminar, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Feb: 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: New paper “Space-time extremes of severe US thunderstorm environments” on ArXiv