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Hi every­one!

My name is Nadia, and I am a PhD researcher at the Insti­tute for Envi­ron­men­tal Stud­ies, Vri­je Uni­ver­siteit Ams­ter­dam. My PhD revolves around bet­ter under­stand­ing trop­i­cal cyclone risk and how this changes under cli­mate change. This way, we can help com­mu­ni­ties become more resilient, here­by reduc­ing impacts and sav­ing more lives!

At the heart of my PhD lies the STORM mod­el — this is the ful­ly sta­tis­ti­cal mod­el we built to sim­u­late 10.000 years of trop­i­cal cyclone activ­i­ty. You can find the STORM datasets on the 4TU data repos­i­to­ry!

My back­ground lies in math­e­mat­ics and mete­o­rol­o­gy: I’ve had a big pas­sion for extreme weath­er ever since I was 10! When­ev­er I’m not fan­ta­siz­ing about chas­ing tor­na­does and trop­i­cal cyclones, I like to cro­chet or cud­dle with my guinea pigs Mag­nus and Nino (not on mutu­al agree­ment :-))