General Information

Hi there, I am a Ph.D. student at the Ethiopian Institute of Water Resources (EIWR), Addis Ababa University (AAU), where my research focuses on understanding land surface driven processes and land-atmosphere feedbacks through the use of Earth System Models, specifically the Community Land Model (CLM) and Regional Climate Model (RegCM). I’m also investigating the characteristics of extreme hydro-climate events and their relationships with large-scale ocean-atmosphere oscillations like ENSO, IOD, MJO, and NAO over Ethiopia.

CV

Education

• Ph.D. candidate at Ethiopian Institute of Water Resources (EIWR), Addis Ababa University
• MSc. in in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering, Politecnico Di Milano, 2011
• BSc. in Meteorology, Arba Minch University, 2009

Work experience

Lecturer:

• 2007 – Present
• Arba Minch University, Ethiopia

Software Instructor:

• 2013-Jan – 2013-Dec
• ZAGET Consulting and Training PLC, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

Environmental Engineer:

• 2014/Jan – 2014/Oct
• ME Consulting Engineers (MECE), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Skills

• Operating System: [Linux & Windows]
• Programming languages: [Python, R, MATLAB, Fortran, Shell scripts]
• Web programming languages: [HTML, CSS, Markdown]
• Earth system models: [RegCM, CLM]
• Post-processing tools: [NCL, NCO, CDO, Grads, Panoply, MeteoInfo]
• GIS Software’s: [ARC-GIS, Q-GIS, GRASS-GIS, ERDAS-IMAGINE, ILWIS, SAGA-GIS]

Publications

MSc. Thesis

Sustainable development by improvement of ribb basin management in Ethiopia: a possible irrigation scheme and a flood control structure, 2011, Poliecnico Di Milano, Italy

References

Dr. Gulilat Tefera

• Specialization: Regional Climate Modelling
• Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, Canada
• Email: Gulilattef@gmail.com

Prof. Priscila Escobar Rojo

• Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Environment, Infrastructures and Surveying
• Poliecnico Di Milano, Italy
• Email: priscila.escobar@polimi.it