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I am an interdisciplinary scholar whose research draws from history and philosophy of science, environmental social science and physical climate science to address knowledge production, justification and uptake issues in climate change science. I am particularly interested in how these issues materialize in the context of climate change adaptation in the public and private sectors. I currently divide my time between the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy at the University College London and the Earth System Services Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

My current work follows three inter-related streams. The first first regards the epistemic foundations of quality of climate information. This information can take many forms, from probabilistic projections to physical climate storylines. In this work we have developed a framework which specifies epistemic requirements for a concept of quality and its target, and successively applied it to state-of-the-art climate information.

The second stream focuses on how definitions of quality, as well as other characteristics of information and information producers such as trustworthiness, align with the epistemic and value theoretic requirements of decision-makers in the public and private sector. For example, I am currently working with Erica Thompson on a project evaluating the use of model based climate information in the insurance and reinsurance sector.

The third stream focuses on how quality and trustworthiness of information can be enhanced in a regulatory context. This stream is more impact focused and is materialized in my participation in the community support action project Climateurope2, which is aimed at supporting climate services and their standardization. In this project, I help integrate insights from different disciplines to develop a conceptual framework that promotes the path to an equitable standardization of climate services.

I earned my PhD from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and wrote my dissertation under the supervision of Professor Robert Batterman. Before going to Pittsburgh, I completed an MSc in History and Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics and a BSc in Mathematics and Physics (Joint Honors) at University College London.