I am Senior Scientist at the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). I am a mathematics graduate, opted for a Master’s Degree in Climate Change, followed by a PhD on Land Surface–precipitation Interactions in northern Africa during the Holocene. The Holocene stretches back 12,000 years. I worked on decadal climate predictions at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. In 2017, I took up a position as a senior C3S scientist at ECMWF.

At C3S, I am leading the monthly Climate Bulletins and the annual European State of Climate report and am responsible for communicating C3S-related climate science to users and stakeholders. Furthermore, my responsibilities include working with the C3S communications team on all aspects of climate communication, talking to journalists, and helping to prepare climate stories for the Euronews TV channel.