Climatic Change and Climate Impacts

CURRICULUM VITAE

Born the 21 of September 1972 in Lucerne; Switzerland

Citizen of Switzerland and Italy

Mother of two children

PUBLICATIONS

CURRENT POSITION

PhD student and assistant; Institut of Environnemental Science (ISE), Climate Change and Climate Impact Group, University of Geneva

Subject: Description an modelling of harmful phytoplankton in deep alpine lakes under warmer climatic conditons using statistical analyses and models

Project Cyanoclim: Health implications of changes in Cyanobacterial outbreaks in Swiss surface waters

Assistant for the Certificat of Geomatics and Statistical Analysis using R

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

10.05 - 03.06: Substitute Biologiste for the state of Geneva; Water Ecology Service, Department of Territorial Management, Canton of Geneva

Statistical analyses using R on the epilithic diatoms data from the major rivers in Geneva; Lac monitoring; River monitoring; Chlorohylle extraction; Preparation of diatoms samples for microscopal identification.

Winter Semester 05: Teaching at the Engineer School of Lullier, Geneva

Management of natural environments; Ecological diagnostic of rivers ; Modular stepsise Procedure (MSP).

03.05- 09.05: Scientific collaborator at the Departement of Earth Science, University of Geneva.

Calibration of a mulitparametric probe (Temperature, Turbidity, Chlorophylle); Research on Limnology; Culturing of algae; Chlorophylle extractions and measuring.

02.04 - 01.05 : Scientific collaborator, Department of Territorial Management, Service of Fresh Water Ecology, State of Geneva and Departement of Earth Science, University of Geneva

Project REQUALEM: Reasearch on the behavior of phytoplankton in Small Lake Geneva; Statistical multivariate analyses; Limonology.

09.03-11.03: Internship for Remote sensing and GIS at the Global Resource Information Database (GRID)/ United Nation Environment Program (UNEP)

Comparision of the temperature (SST) data computed from thermal remote sensing with in situ measurement. Use of ArcView and Erdas softwares.

EDUCATION

2011 June Summerschool at EAWAG (Aquatic Research Institute), Dübendorf, Switzerland

Environmental Systems Analysis: Model-based data analysis in environmental sciences (software package R)

• Models in Environmental Sciences (Importance, mathematical representation,  descripton and causes of uncertainty in model predictions)
• Identification of Models (Construction, preliminary and sensitvity analysis, frequentist and bayesian inference)
• Model Predictions (Estimation of uncertainty of model prediction in the frequentist and Bayesian framework)

2009 July Summerschool at Latsis Foundation in Athens, Greece

Environment, Climate, Climate Change Impacts. Lectures and practical work ( Data anylsis, Extremes, Time series analysis)

1999-2002 Master in natural Sciences of the Environment (DES SNE)

University of Geneva and Lausanne; University of Bologna; National Center of Marine Research for Marine Biotoxines in Cesenatico (FO, Italy.

Master Thesis in Ecotoxicology: Comparative assessement of the use of Daphnia Magna and Microtox Assay as alternative for the Mouse assay for detection of algal biotoxins in mussels in the Northern Adratic Sea

2002 Certificate in Geomatic (GIS); University of Geneva

1995-1999 Bachlors in Molecular Biology University of Geneva

LANGUAGES

German , Italian, French, English, Spanish