Meriem Krouma is a postdoctoral researcher on climate extremes and health impacts at the Water and Climate Risk department of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at VU Amsterdam.
Her research focus is on understanding climate extremes, their predictability, and their impacts. At VU Amsterdam, She study how extremes such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall affect human health. Before joining VU, She worked at Uppsala University on the predictability of compound climate extremes, using statistical methods, analog approaches, and stochastic weather generators to explore their drivers and improve their forecasting. This work built on her PhD at the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE, Paris), where she developed statistical forecasting tools for European precipitation at the sub-seasonal time range. She has an academic background in hydrology and water management.
Expertise
Weather forecast, predictability, extremes weather events, atmosphere dynamics, water management.
Education
2023: PhD in Geosciences. Paris Saclay University.
2019: MSc in Sustainable Water Resources Management. National institute of Agronomy of Tunisia.
2017: Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry: Hydraulic engineering. National institute of Agronomy of Tunisia.
