People
The RESIST consortium at the second annual meeting in UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), April 25th, 2025
Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Earth and Life Institute, Earth and Climate Research Center
François Massonnet: RESIST Coordinator and PI. He works on sea ice prediction and predictability on seasonal to climate change time scales. He is also interested in aspects of climate model evaluation and forecast verification in polar regions.
Alison Delhasse: Postdoc researcher at UCLouvain. She works on ocean and sea ice data assimilation in the NEMO ocean model to enhance the representation of sea ice states, with the goal of developing a forecasting tool on a multi-seasonal scale to prevent rapid sea ice melt events.
Annelies Sticker: PhD candidate at UCLouvain. She works on Arctic rapid ice loss events using CMIP6 simulations.
Benjamin Richaud: Postdoc researcher at UCLouvain. He is currently interested in the recent sea ice lows in both polar regions, investigating their drivers using an ice-ocean numerical model.
Cécile Osy: PhD student at UCLouvain. She works on the impact of sea ice loss on permafrost.
Cécile Davrinche: Postdoc at UCLouvain. She works on the role of eddies for Antarctic sea ice.
Daniel Topal: Postdoc at UCLouvain working primarily on polar ice-ocean interactions using NEMO4.2-SI3 model with a focus on model resolution.
Hugues Goosse: Research Director at F.R.S/FNRS and Professor at UCLouvain. He works on climate variability on internannual to centennial timescale, combining model results and observations.
Jerome Sauer: PhD candidate at UClouvain. He works on extremes of summer Arctic sea ice reduction using a rare event algorithm applied to coupled climate model ensemble simulations.
Jinfei Wang: Postdoc at UCLouvain. She works on causes of Antarctic sea ice extremes with satellite observations and model simulations.
Sophie Opfergelt: FNRS Research Fellow at UCLouvain. She works on the response of permafrost environments to climate change, and the consequences for element mobility in these polar ecosystems, using isotope geochemistry, soil sciences and cryospheric sciences.
Stephy Libera: Postdoc researcher at UCLouvain. She works on ocean mesoscale processes and their interaction with sea ice and atmosphere.
Thierry Fichefet: Full Professor at UCLouvain. His main research area is modelling climate-cryosphere interactions, with a focus on sea ice. He is the father of the Louvain-la-Neuve sea Ice Model (LIM), which forms the core of the NEMO Sea Ice modelling Integrated Initiative (SI3).
Yuchun Gao: PhD student at UCLouvain under the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC). She works on the persistence of Antarctic sea ice observed and simulated by coupled models.
Xiaoran Dong: PhD student at UCLouvain under the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) program. He works on the use of machine-learning techniques for seasonal forecasting of sea ice.
Royal Meteorological Institute (Belgium), Dynamical Meteorology and Climatology Unit
David Docquier: Postdoc researcher and RESIST PI at RMI. He works on ocean - sea ice - atmosphere interactions using causal methods applied to global climate models and satellite observations.
Jonathan Demaeyer: Researcher at RMI. His research interests include weather forecasting, low-order climate modeling and bifurcation analysis in climate models.
Stéphane Vannitsem: Head of the Dynamical Meteorology and Climatology unit at RMI. His research interests include variability and predictability of the atmosphere at different time scales, ranging from short daily forecasts to seasonal and decadal predictions.
