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General Information

Full Name Valeria Mascolo
Languages Italian, English, French, Neapolitan
Programming skills Python, MATLAB, C, Bash, Latex, Microsoft Office

Education

  • 2021 - 2024
    Ph.D. in Physics
    École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
    • Maria Skłodowska-Curie ITN fellow within the EDIPI, supervised by Freddy Bouchet
    • Thesis Studying extreme heatwaves using novel theorethical approaches
  • 2019 - 2020
    M.Sc. in Applied mathematics, Complex systems modelling
    King s College London, United Kingdom
    • Passed with distiction (highest grade)
    • Dissertation Analysis of Bayesian classification - Naive Bayes approach for the analysis of medical data
  • 2016 - 2019
    B.Sc. in Physics Engineering
    Politenico di Torino, Italy
    • 110 cum laude (highest grade)
    • Dissertation Deterministic and stochastic analysis of epidemics, SIR and SIS models

Experience

Talks and posters

  • 2025
    • ETH Zurich, Invited speaker. Presentation of the work Gaussian framework and optimal projection of weather fields for prediction of extreme events. Invited by Prof. Dr. Daniela Domeisen
  • 2024
    • European Geosciences Union General Assembly, EGU24, Presentation of the work A Gaussian Framework for Optimal Prediction of Extreme Heatwaves
  • 2023
    • European Geosciences Union General Assembly, EGU23, Presentation of the work Comparing the influence of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and spring soil moisture on European summer heatwaves
    • Beg Rohu School of Out of equilibrium statistical physics, Presentation of the work Heatwaves prediction using Gaussian assumption
    • GdR Defì théoriques pour les sciences du climat, Poster presentation of the work Heatwaves prediction using Gaussian assumption
  • 2022
    • Tel-Aviv University, Department of Geoscience, Presentation of the work Comparing the influence of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and spring soil moisture on European summer heatwaves
    • GdR Defì théoriques pour les sciences du climat, Poster presentation of the work Comparing the influence of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and spring soil moisture on European summer heatwaves

Schools, courses and trainings

  • 2023-2024
    • EDIPI ITN 5th training week at KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
    • EDIPI ITN 6th training week - Network-wide ESR Research and Soft Skills Training at Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cypru
    • Participation to the European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU24), Wien, Austria
    • Workshop - Prévisibilité dans les sciences de l’atmosphère et Points de bascule within the Group De Recherche ”Défis théoriques pour les sciences du climat”, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France
    • Workshop - Interfaces dans le système climatique, within the Group De Recherche ”Défis théoriques pour les sciences du climat”, Grenoble, France
  • 2022-2023
    • Workshop - Mathematics and theoretical physics for climate dynamics, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
    • Summer school - Climate sensibility, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
    • EDIPI ITN 4th training week - Idealized modelling in climate sciences, Institut Royal Météorologique, Brussels, Belgium
    • Summer school - Out of equilibrium statistical physics, Beg Rohu, France
    • Course - Granular, jammed and disordered media, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
    • Participation to the European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU23), Wien, Austria
  • 20021-2022
    • Course - Large deviations in physics, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
    • Course - Climate change, climate change impacts, and energetic transition, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
    • Summer school - Artificial intelligence for detection and attribution of climate extremes, XAIDA project, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
    • School - Machine Learning and the Physics of Climate and Workshop on Extreme Events in Weather and Climate, Fletcher Hotel, Berg en Daal, The Netherlands
    • EDIPI ITN 3rd training week - Attribution studies, tipping point of climate and advanced statistical methods for extremes, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
    • EDIPI ITN 1st & 2nd training weeks - Basics of statistics, probability, extreme events modelling and extreme value theory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
    • Journées du lancement du Group De Recherche "Défis théoriques pour les sciences du climat", Auditorium TOTEM, Paris, France
    • Journées de la physique statistique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

Honors and Awards

  • 2017 - 2019
    • Winner of the Scholarship and Housing Service for merit requirements provided by Edisu Piemonte, awarded through public competition.
    • Winner of the municipal scholarship for final exams results.