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Dr. Sem Vijverberg is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, specializing in Water and Climate Risk. His research focuses on mid-latitude persistent summer extremes, causal drivers of weather events, and machine learning applications in climate prediction. He holds a PhD from VU Amsterdam under Dr. Dim Coumou's Vidi-project, following an MSc in Climate Physics from Utrecht University and applied physics training.
- Education: MSc Climate Physics (Utrecht University, 2017), HBO Applied Physics (The Haque University, 2015), MBO Car Mechanic (2012)
His expertise includes land-atmosphere coupling, evaporation-precipitation interactions, and atmospheric circulation patterns. Recent work explores predictability of persistent heatwaves and rainfall events using causal networks, alongside subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting frameworks. He contributed to studies on La Niña impacts on transcontinental crop failures and Pacific Decadal Oscillation effects on US temperature variability.
As part of the Persistent summer extremes project (2017–2023), he investigated causal drivers of extreme weather events and their societal impacts. No scientific awards are listed, but his research has garnered attention via Mendeley readers and academic platforms.
