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Dr. Paola Crippa

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Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
University of Notre Dame

Education

  • Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Indiana University-Bloomington, USA
  • M.S., Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • B.S., Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Professional Experience

  • COMET Postdoctoral Research Associate, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
  • Postdoctoral fellow, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Awards

  • NSF-CAREER award (2023-2028)
  • 2026: Abdel El-Shaarawi Early Investigator (AEEI) Award, from the International Environmetrics Society (TIES). This award recognizes and honor early investigators who have made outstanding contributions to the development of statistical and/or quantitative approaches for research in the environmental sciences.
  • 2026: Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. ("In recognition of the significant contributions to the statistical profession.")
  • 2026: American Geophysical Union Outstanding Reviewer for Earth and Space Science in 2025
  • 2026: Outstanding Reviewer for Environmental Research Letters in 2025
  • 2025: Exceptional Early Adopter Contribution for NASA Earth Science Division
  • L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland Fellowship For Women In Science (2015)

Active Grants

2023-2028: NSF-CAREER award Title: CAREER: A unified multiscale modeling approach for processes in the atmospheric boundary layer. PI, $541,016.

2022-2027: NSF Collaborative Research: MRA - Title: Global Non-Gaussian Stochastic Partial Differential Equation Models for Assessing Future Health of Ecohydrologic Systems. Co-PI, $945,511 to ND (total $1,478,766).

Completed Grants

2023-2026: KAUST Competitive Research Grant Call - Title: Physics-Based and Space-Time Statistical Machine Learning Models for Sustainable Development in Saudi Arabia. PI, $209,999 o ND (total $928,576).

2022-2024: Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society - Title: How can Artificial Intelligence inform air quality policy and incentives for environmental justice? PI, $95,326.

2021-2024: NASA-MAP - Title: Quantifying Physical and Chemical Forcing from Landscape Evolution on Extreme Precipitation. PI, $352,338 to ND (total $671,329).

2019-2022: KAUST Competitive Research Grant
Title: Space-Time Models for Assessing High-Resolution Wind Power in Saudi Arabia. Co-PI, $316,042 (total $829,500)

2016-2019: KAUST Competitive Research Grant
Title: Space-Time Statistical Models for Wind Field Forecasting with High Performance Computing. Co-PI, $414,787 (total $1,022,891)