{"id":3453,"date":"2025-05-22T18:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dawn\/?page_id=3453"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:32:38","slug":"our-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dawn\/our-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Tom Beucler<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Principal Investigator \/ Assistant Professor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Beucler is an assistant professor of environmental data science at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He leads the Data-Driven Atmospheric & Water Dynamics (\u22023<\/sup>AWN) laboratory, the first research group worldwide dedicated to bridging atmospheric physics and AI. Tom holds a Ph.D. in atmospheric science from MIT, where he studied tropical convection. His postdoctoral work at Columbia University and UC Irvine focused on deep learning for climate modeling. Outside academia, Tom enjoys jogging, hiking, weightlifting, swimming, playing video games, and spending time with two (cute<\/a>) feral cats he rescued in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fangfei “Fei” Lan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postdoctoral Researcher<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fei earned her PhD in Computing from the University of Utah in 2024, focusing on topological data analysis and visualization. At \u2202AWN, Fei is working on bringing topology-based techniques to atmospheric sciences and climate modeling, specifically in equation discovery and parameterization. In addition, she is also working on benchmarking machine learning-based hybrid Earth system models. In her free time, Fei loves anything outdoors, hiking, backpacking, and snowboarding.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Milton Gomez<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD Candidate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Milton Gomez is a PhD Candidate in the Data-Driven Atmospheric and Water Dynamics group at the University of Lausanne. With a Masters in Environmental Fluid Mechanics as well as one in Mechanical Engineering, Milton is using his PhD to apply deep learning models for weather forecasting.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Iat-Hin “Fredrick” Tam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD Candidate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frederick specializes in data-driven meteorology and machine learning for weather modeling. His research includes developing methods to discover physics from data and improving tropical cyclone prediction. Frederick previously studied dual-polarimetric signatures in nocturnal MCSs during his master\u2019s at National Taiwan University and has chased tornadoes in the U.S. Great Plains. In his free time, he enjoys landscape photography, hiking, and traveling across Europe for opera.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Filippo Quarengh<\/strong>i<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD Candidate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Filippo Quarenghi is a PhD Candidate in the Data-Driven Atmospheric and Water Dynamics group at the University of Lausanne. Filippo has a background in physics from the University of Milano-Bicocca and developed expertise in machine learning through industry experience. He earned a master\u2019s degree in climate physics from Utrecht University, completing a thesis on atmospheric modeling at ETH Zurich. Currently, his work focuses on machine learning-based downscaling to improve the generalizability of atmospheric models in complex terrains and for extreme weather events.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Shivanshi Asthana<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD Candidate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shivanshi Asthana is a PhD candidate in the DAWN group since March, 2025 focusing on application of super resolution algorithms for downscaling Swiss Climate Change Scenarios and generalising ML frameworks for climate change and extreme events. She previously holds an Honours degree in Physics from the University of Delhi as well as Master\u2019s in Integrated Climate System Sciences from University of Hamburg, where she also worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Oceanography studying extreme events over Germany.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sabrina Damiani<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adriano Romano<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Master and Bachelor Students<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Mathieu Prioux<\/strong> (March 2025 – July 2025), CentraleSup\u00e9lec (Paris-Saclay University), Topic: Neural Operators for Atmospheric Parameterization. linkedin<\/a>, github<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Max Defez<\/strong> (March 2025 – August 2025), CentraleSup\u00e9lec (Paris-Saclay University), Topic: Video Super-resolution for Precipitation Downscaling. linkedin<\/a>, github<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Visiting Researchers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Deborah Bassotto<\/strong>, University of Valencia. website<\/a>, linkedin<\/a>, publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miriam Simm<\/strong>, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. website<\/a>, linkedin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Alumni<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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(2022-2024) Jingyan Yu<\/strong>, website<\/a>, publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2021-2023) Saranya Ganesh S<\/strong>. publications<\/a>, github<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(2022-2024) Marie McGraw<\/strong>, website<\/a>, publications<\/a>, github<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2021-2023) Francesco Zanetta<\/strong>, ETH\/MeteoSwiss. linkedin<\/a>, github<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Master and Bachelor Students<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(2023-2025) Alyssia Leclerc<\/strong>, B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, UNIL. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2024-2025) Anton Grudiev<\/strong>, B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, UNIL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2022-2025) Fabien Augsburger<\/strong>, M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, UNIL, publication<\/a> on thesis, github<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2024) Mauricio Lima<\/strong>, M.Sc. in Climate Science, Sorbonne University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2024) Louise Largeau<\/strong>, M.Sc. in Statistics, EPFL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2024) Antoine Leclerc<\/strong>, M1 in Mechanics, \u00c9cole Polytechnique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2023-2024) Louis Poulain–Auzeau<\/strong>, Masters in Computational Science and Engineering, EPFL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2023) Aser Atawya<\/strong>, B.A. in Computer Science, Pomona College. linkedin<\/a>, code<\/a> for internship project: Portugal wildfire analysis, github<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2023) Marine Berthier<\/strong>, M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, ENSTA Paris. linkedin<\/a>, thesis<\/a>, github<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2023) Jo L\u00e9cuyer<\/strong>, M.Sc. in Mechanics, Ecole Polytechnique. thesis<\/a>, github<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2022) L\u00e9o Micollet<\/strong>, M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, ENSTA Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2021-2022) Meryam Cherqaoui Fassi<\/strong>, B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, UNIL, linkedin<\/a>, thesis<\/a>, github<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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