Loris Foresti

Experience

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  UNIL - Université de Lausanne

  Sept 2006 - Dec 2008

  Student Assistant

  Geostatistics for meteorological data (temperature inversions).

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  UNIL - Université de Lausanne

  Feb 2009 - Dec 2011

  Ph. D. student

  - Machine learning for interpolation of wind & radar data in Alpine orography- Supervision of students (e.g. statistical landslide susceptibility mapping)- Teaching assistant (GIS, remote sensing, geostatistics and machine learning for environment)

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  Australian Bureau of Meteorology

  Feb 2012 - May 2013

  Postdoctoral fellow

  - Analogue-based and stochastic rainfall nowcasting (STEPS)- Development of forecast verification software in C++

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  Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

  Jun 2013 - Sept 2015

  Research associate

  - Development of an operational radar-based precipitation nowcasting system (STEPS-BE) in C++, Python & bash.- Collaboration with hydrologists for nowcasting inundations in Belgian cities.- Supporting the radar group with R&D, e.g. radar-based hail detection.

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  MeteoSwiss

  Apr 2016 - now

  - Automation of meteorological observations for aviation (AUTO METAR)- Product owner in a team of 5-6 people (scientists and software engineers)- Project management- Remote sensing campaign at Geneva airport (09/2019-08/2020) - PI of an SNSF Ambizione project and supervisor of a PhD student (ETH Medal).- Keywords: probabilistic nowcasting, stochastic methods, precipitation attractor, machine learning, NWP blending, ensemble Kalman filter, forecast verification, NowPrecip, pysteps, Python

  • Scientific Collaborator

    Apr 2019 - now

  • Scientific Collaborator

    Apr 2016 - Mar 2019