Rawad El Skaf

I am currently a Senior Fellow at SOCRATES Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences Hannover, Germany.

Before, I held an  assistant professor (RTD-A) in Logic and Philosophy of Science in the department of Mathematics at the Politecnico di Milano and a Marie Curie Fellowship position at the University of Salzburg, with a secondment period at the University of Geneva.

My research interests concern general topics in the History and Philosophy of Science. More precisely, I work on Surrogative Reasoning and Scientific Tools beyond (direct) laboratory experiments: i.e., Thought Experiments, Computer Simulations, Scientific Models and Analogue Experiments, and their use in several scientific fields, mainly physics and climate science. 

Recently, I am investigating the use of narratives in climate science, in particular the "storyline approach" to the science of detection and attribution of extreme weather events and the "SSP-RCP scenario framework" that combines both climate and socioeconomic future pathways.

During my career, I spent research and teaching periods at Pittsburgh, Santiago, Beirut, Geneva, and Salzburg.