Services

I work as an independent researcher and consultant — fully remote, based in Italy, with regular travel to Berlin. Depending on who you are and what you need, my work takes one of three forms.

Research collaboration

For research institutions and groups.

I join your project as an external researcher, on a contract basis — from a few months to multi-year collaborations. The work itself is ordinary research: developing methods, writing code, analysing data, co-authoring papers. The freelance arrangement simply makes it possible where a position is not an option — when you have project funding but no post to offer, or need specific expertise for part of a project.

My expertise centers on probabilistic methods for climate and sea level:

• Bayesian inference and probabilistic modelling, including spatial statistics and Gaussian processes
• climate reconstruction and model–data fusion, from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present
• sea-level rise: observations, simulation, projections
• emulators of Earth System Models and their impacts
• the practical side: ensemble processing, reproducible pipelines, scientific Python and Julia

Current and recent examples: a Bayesian reconstruction of the Last Glacial Maximum with AWI, and observation-constrained sea-level projections with PIK (Perrette & Mengel, 2025, Science Advances).

Climate impact consultancy

For consultancies, NGOs, development banks and public institutions.

I help turn climate science into usable assessments: climate hazards and their impacts, scenarios and uncertainty, and what the science actually supports. Deliverables range from quantitative analysis and mapping to report chapters and expert review.

I have worked with Climate Analytics, Knowl-Edge and IISD, contributed to the World Bank’s Turn Down the Heat report series, and was a contributing author to the IPCC AR5 report (sea-level chapter).

Scientific software and data

For startups and technical teams.

I design and build the data-heavy parts of a product: probabilistic models, data pipelines, emulators, interactive visualizations and small web apps — backed by fifteen years of scientific programming, mostly in Python and lately in Julia. My open-source work gives a good idea of what to expect.

Get in touch

If any of this sounds relevant, write me a short note about your project — contact details at the bottom of the page. I am happy to have an informal chat first.