Hi, I am Lucia and I am a climate scientist currently based at UC Berkeley.   I am broadly interested in modelling the impact of extreme events on the coupled land surface - atmosphere system, especially the impact of wildfire and other ecosystem disturbances on vegetation, and the impact of climate change on ecosystem regeneration.   My research employs complex Global Dynamic Vegetation Models as well as low- dimensional stochastic dynamical systems, where I am particularly interested in heavy-tailed data and model uncertainty across scales.   My work aims to inform strategies for climate adaptation and ecological resilience, and I work closely with land managers and ecologist in U.S. National Parks across the Western US.

Current Position

Postdoctoral Researcher, Eric & Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment, UC Berkeley. Supporting the National Park Service Climate Change Decision Support project.

Education

• PhD Life Science Technical University of Munich
• MSc Mathematical Modelling King’s College London, UK
• MSc Environmental Science and Engineering Technical University of Berlin, Germany Research stays: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research · American University of Beirut