Degrees
Ph.D. Sustainable Development, Columbia University, USA. Master International Affairs, Columbia University, USA. M.A. Environmental Economics, École Polytechnique, Paris, France. B.S. Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
About
Marta Vicarelli is a postdoctoral associate at the Yale University’s Climate and Energy Institute. Her research focuses on the risks and the socio-economic impacts of climate variability and climate change, as well as on the design of vulnerability-reduction instruments, such as weather-indexed insurance programs. In 2009, prior to receiving her doctoral degree, she was awarded the Pre-doctoral Sustainability Science Fellowship by the Harvard Sustainability Science Program and was invited to work at the Harvard University’s Center for International Development for the academic years 2009-10 and 2010-11. From 2004 to 2010, she worked as research fellow at the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies investigating observed impacts and responses to climate change in natural and managed systems. She is contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, Working Group II, on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. She is recipient of the Peccei Fellowship (2007) awarded by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna for her work on integrating inter-annual climate variability forecasts into weather-indexed crop insurance. She holds a B.S. in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, a Master of Environmental Economics from the École Polytechnique, as well as a Master of International Affairs and a Ph.D. in Sustainable Development from the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Founding President (2008 - 2010) of the Columbia University Sustainable Development Doctoral Society (SDDS), a Columbia University graduate student organization that serves as a forum for discussion on Sustainable Development. SDDS promotes linkages between academia, policy makers, and the private sector by organizing seminars, symposia and workshops open to graduate students, faculty and practitioners.
Awards received by SDDS while I was president:
- Columbia University Graduate Student Advisory Award 2010.
- Columbia University President’s and Provost’s Student Initiative Fund 2009.
- Columbia University Graduate Student Advisory Award 2009.
