University of Reading

Claudia Di Napoli (PhD) is a research fellow in Climate and Health at the University of Reading, UK. Physicist by training, Claudia’s research interests focus on past and future trends of meteorological extremes and the impacts these may have on human wellbeing. Her primary expertise is on the climatology and forecasting of heatwaves as weather-related health hazards. She is the leading author of ERA5-HEAT, the first complete historical reconstruction for a set of biometeorological indices representing human thermal stress in outdoor conditions.