Cristina DEIDDA

Cristina Deidda has a background in Civil and Environmental Engineering. She had the Master degree in Hydraulics and then completed the Phd in March 2022 at Politecnico di Milano with a thesis focused on "Flood hazards in univariate and multivariate settings accounting for compound events". During the Phd she focused on multivariate statistical analysis of extremes taking into account compounds events, exploring new methodologies to study asymmetry, dependence and causality links among variables.

She joined several international project as GAUSS (Generating Advanced Usage of Earth Observation for Statistics) in collaboration with Copernicus and Finnish Meteorological Institute, she participated to DAMOCLES (Understanding and Modeling Compound Climate and Weather events) COST action activities doing a Short Term Scientific Mission at Statistical Research Center in Ginevra and as junior supervisor in the Compound Event Summer School. She is actually leader of the WG4 of OpenSense COST Action (Opportunistic Sensing Network).

In January 2023 she started a PostDoc with Wim Thiery focusing on 'Quality control of Copernicus climate change service data sets".