I am an atmospheric physicist working as a weather and agro underwriter at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions. Before that I held a position as a weather and climate analyst at Cargill International SA, and at the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (also known as MeteoSwiss), where I was responsible for MeteoSwiss's operational long-range forecasts (monthly and seasonal) and did research on a range of topics related to climate prediction, model combination and forecast verification. I hold a PhD from the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH Zurich (IACETH). My doctoral research dealt with the boundary layer over mountainous topography.

Research interests:

• Weather index insurance for agricultural applications
• Interaction between weather/climate and agricultural production
• Interpretation of decadal predictions and climate change scenarios
• Monthly to seasonal predictability and applications for climate risk management
• Methods of probabilistic forecast verification
• Calibration and combination of ensemble forecasts
• Statistical downscaling techniques
• Boundary layer meteorology
• Mountain meteorology