Lecturers

Amir Aghakouchak
University of California, Irvine
Professor specializing in hydrological extremes such as floods and droughts, with a focus on climate change impacts and data-driven prediction.
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Andrea Castelletti
Politecnico di Milano & CMCC
Professor at Politecnico di Milano and Director of the Technologies for Climate Transition division at CMCC. His research focuses on water resources systems, environmental decision-making, and machine learning for hydroclimatic applications.
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Andrea Toreti
European Commission Joint Research Centre
Senior scientist working on climate extremes, drought monitoring, and climate services supporting European policy.
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Davide Faranda
CNRS / IPSL
Research scientist focusing on climate extremes, attribution science, and nonlinear dynamics, with applications of AI in climate risk.
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Guido Ascenso
CMCC Foundation
Junior scientist specialized in AI-based computer vision and image-to-image methods. His work focuses on applying these techniques to study extreme climate events and large-scale climate patterns. He contributes to the development of the EUMACC network.
Gustau Camps-Valls
Universitat de València – Linkedin
Full Professor in Electrical Engineering, Head of the Image and Signal Processing group, and leading expert in machine learning, causality, and AI for Earth and climate sciences.
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Markus Reichstein
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Professor in Bioecology, Director and leading expert in Earth system science and AI applications for ecosystem–climate interactions and data-driven discovery.
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Mierk Schwabe
DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics
Group leader and physicist specialized in climate modelling, with a focus on improving atmospheric processes representation using machine learning and emerging computing approaches such as quantum computing.
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Ning Lin
Princeton University
Professor focusing on tropical cyclones, storm surge, and coastal flood risk under climate change, developing models for compound climate hazards.
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Sonia Seneviratne
ETH Zürich
Professor focusing on land–atmosphere interactions, climate extremes, and their impacts under global warming. Lead author of multiple IPCC reports and a leading voice on heatwaves and drought risk.
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Thomas Brunschwiler
IBM Research Zurich
Lead scientist working on high-performance computing and AI, including foundation models for environmental and climate prediction.
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