Gabriele Messori
Professor
I became interested in extreme events in the climate system while finishing my Master thesis in physics in Imperial College London in 2010. My Ph. D. and my successive research have primarily focussed on the predictability and large-scale atmospheric controls of mid and high-latitude weather extremes in current and past climates. I work on combining approaches from diverse fields to study climate extremes: from dynamical systems theory to machine learning and ensemble modelling.
Anjali Thomas
Postdoc
Anjali obtained her Ph. D. from the University of Canterbury in 2024, and has joined our group in May 2025. She works on identifying large-scale drivers of climate hazards.
Alok K. Samantaray
Postdoc
Alok obtained his Ph. D. from IIT Bhubaneswar in 2021, and after working at the University of Bergen, has joined our group in June 2024. He works on connecting climate hazards to impacts.
Debajit Sarkar
Postdoc
Debajit obtained his Ph. D. from IIT Delhi in 2026. He works on FORMAS and FORTE-funded projects focussing on climatic impacts on human health.
Aditya N. Mishra
Postdoc
Aditya obtained his Ph. D. from the University of Graz in 2024, and has joined our group shortly thereafter to work on impacts of geophysical extremes within the Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes (climes).
Koffi Worou
Postdoc
Koffi obtained his Ph. D. from Université Catholique de Louvain in 2023, and joined our group in December 2023. He is working on impacts of weather extremes within the ERC ICE-MOT project and climes.
Nikhil Kumar
Postdoc
Nikhil obtained his Ph. D. from IIT Indore in 2023, and joined our group in November 2025, after a period at UC Davis. He works on tipping point storylines within the ClimTip project.
Sara Lindersson
Postdoc
Sara obtained her Ph. D. from Uppsala University in 2023, and has joined our group directly after, to work on impacts of geophysical extremes within climes.
Richard Leeding
Postdoc
Richard obtained his Masters from the University of Reading in 2020. He joined our group in March 2021, to work on compound climate extremes and is currently supported by the DYCLEX ERC project.
Michael Schutte
Ph. D. Student
Michael obtained his Masters from Uppsala University in 2023. He began his Ph. D. in September of the same year to work on compound climate extremes in Europe and North America within the CENÆ ERC project.
Leonardo Olivetti
Ph. D. Student
Leonardo obtained his Masters from Uppsala University in 2022. He began his Ph. D. in September of the same year, to work on compound climate extremes in Europe and North America within the CENÆ ERC project.
S. Murat Yalçın
Project Administrator
Markus Simon
Research Assistant
Markus obtained his Masters in Public Health Science from Stockholm University in 2026, and will work within climes and a FORMAS-funded project to investigate climatic impacts on human health.
Co-supervised Ph. D. Candidates
Shivang Pandey (Karolinska)
Isabel Walter (Karolinska)
Ricardo B. Navarro (Karolinska)
Manuel M. O. Nocentini (Karolinska)
Fangyuan Cheng (Gothenburg University)
Current Master and Bachelor Students
Ellika Groth — Current Master Student
Sara Noemi Hurst — Current Master Student
Ella Brännvall-Eneslätt— Current Bachelor Student