Curriculum Vitae

Research Associate: Drought Risk on Ecosystem Processes in Europe 

• Large-scale and long-term simulations of hydrology and the carbon cycle over Europe.

• Develop drought indices quantifying the impact of water deficit on vegetation.

• Project the risk of significant drought impacts using future climate scenarios.

• Showcase the drought risk over Europe and in individual locations in a demonstrator.

Doctoral Researcher: Variability & drought response of the terrestrial water & carbon cycles

• High-resolution land surface modeling of terrestrial ecosystem processes over Europe.

• Evaluation of land surface model outputs with remote sensing & local observations.

• Development of analysis frameworks in high-performance computing.

• Piloting data services & workflows for an upcoming European research infrastructure.

• Research publication & communication to scientists, students & decision-makers.

• Collaborating on grant proposal writing for research and computing time projects.

Thesis Research Project

• Modeling the impact of climate change on the hydrology of River Thiba.

• Collaboration with institutes & authorities for data & expertise.

Graduate Research Assistant

• Research data management & curation for publication.

• Mapping land surface with satellite data for an urban climate model.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

• Developing a job scheduling software for a computing cluster.

• Numerical modeling of wave loads on coastal structures.

Community Research Project

• Water quality measurement campaign of river Seret.

• Awareness-raising through public presentation of research outcomes.

IRISCC - Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change Risks

Connecting data and expertise from various European Research Infrastructures to disseminate information on the risks of climate change.

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eLTER - European Long-Term Ecosystem, Critical Zone & Socio-Ecological Research Infrastructure

The upcoming European Research Infrastructure will support interdisciplinary science on whole socio-ecological systems.

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Master of Science: Hydro Science & Engineering

• Focus: Climatology and Hydrological modeling.

Student Exchange: Kenya

• Water Resources Management: Local application of climate change adaptations.

Bachelor of Science: Civil Engineering

• Focus: Hydromechanics & computational fluid dynamics

Student Exchange: Chile

• Civil Engineering: Structural Dynamics and Earthquake-resistant engineering.

Jülich Innovation & Entrepreneurship Certificate Program

• Market assessment and business modeling of entrepeneurial ideas in science.

• Communicating business proposal in pitch format to Investor Jury.

Research Data Management

• Managing extensive scientific data sets.

• Operationalization of FAIR standards.

Whole System Approach for in-situ Research on Life Supporting Systems in the Anthropocene

• Applying interdisciplinary research on whole socio-ecological systems.

• Case study: Gran Paradiso National Park in Italy.

Terrestrial Modelling & High-Performance Scientific Computing

• Introdcution to the modelling of terrestrial systems in HPC.

• Applied data assimilation.

New Advances in Land Carbon Cycle Modeling

• Processes, observations, models & implementations of the carbon cycle.

• Data assimilation to improve predictions of carbon fluxes.

• Application of machine learning to carbon cycle predictions.

Graduate courses

• Good scientific practice

• Scientific writing

• Advanced scientific presentation

Implement & Control, Practical Methods of Project

• Design, monitoring & evaluation of development projects & social businesses.

The Human Right for Water & Sanitation

• Context on the application of water as a human right.

Discussion Panel on Water Research Valorization

• Discussing visions of better capitalization of the water research conducted.

Introduction to Geosciences

• Introducing Geosciences to Science Prodigies from Kenyan Secondary Schools.

Video on Facebook

Variability of ecosystem processes in Europe

• Communicating my Ph.D. research topic to the broad audience of the eLTER sites & Platforms Forum.

Video on Youtube

Advocate

• Co-representative of >60 doctoral researchers.

• Co-lead of an early-career development group.

• Elected member of the scientific-technical representative board.

One-World-Shope Sales Force

• Supporting the sale of goods of equitable & sustainable consumption.