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Date of birth: 11th of September 1985
Provenance: Lavizzara (Ticino, Switzerland)
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Where I am
Melbourne, Australia

What I do
A postdoc at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM, CAWCR).
SNSF project: Data mining for precipitation nowcasting.

Research interests
Machine/statistical learning, feature extraction and image processing, geostatistics
Short-term forecasting (nowcasting) of rainfall in complex orography
Mapping (interpolation) of meteorological data in complex orography

My background
02/2009 - 12/2011






2007 - 01/2009 







2004 - 2007


2000 - 2004
Ph. D. in Environmental Geosciences, 
Institute of Geomatics and Analysis of Risk, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Title: "Kernel-based mapping of meteorological fields in complex orography"
Supervisors: Prof. M. Kanevski, Dr. A. Pozdnoukhov
Experts: Prof. F. Bavaud, Prof. J. Muñoz-Mari, Prof. A. Berne
SNSF project: Geokernels (Phase II)

MSc. of Science in Environmental Geosciences, 
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Title: "Supervised machine learning algorithms and geostatistics for mapping of meteorological fields in mountainous regions"
Supervisors: Prof. M. Kanevski, Dr. A. Pozdnoukhov
Experts: Prof. M. Maignan and Dr. J-M. Fallot
SNSF project: Geokernels (Phase I)

BSc. of Science in Environmental Geosciences, 
University of Lausanne, Switzerland

High school diploma, Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland

Hobbies
Ice hockey, unihockey
Hiking, Alpine and backcountry skiing, snowshoe trekking
Playing piano accordion

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