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EClim member Saeid Vaghefi was a featured speaker at Zalando’s Tech Talks in Zurich, co-hosted with AICamp Switzerland. The event brought together AI experts and innovators to explore cutting-edge applications—from virtual fashion to climate finance. 🔍 Talk highlight:In his session “AI for Climate Finance: Agentic Retrieval and Multi-Step Reasoning”, Saeid showcased how artificial intelligence can […]

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has unveiled an AI-powered tool that transforms fragmented data into actionable intelligence by tracking financial flows into early warning systems. This tool is a central part of WMO’s contribution to the UN 2.0 transformation, which emphasizes data-driven, high-impact solutions. 🔍 Why it mattersEarly warning systems are proven to save lives—but […]

We’re thrilled to share that AskWMO, a conversational AI tool co-developed by EClim member Saeid Vaghefi, has received the 2024 Royal Meteorological Society’s Award for Innovation! 🎉 Built in collaboration with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), AskWMO demonstrates how AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) can support trustworthy, accessible, and transparent climate knowledge. 💡 What […]

EClim member Saeid Vaghefi, in collaboration with the SUREAL Lab, has released a powerful open-source library—ParseStudio—designed to tackle one of the most persistent challenges in AI: extracting structured content from PDFs. 📄 Why ParseStudio mattersPDFs are everywhere—from scientific publications and legal documents to datasets and reports. Extracting their content reliably is essential for building tools […]

While the Swiss village of Blatten has received global scientific and media attention after the devastating glacier collapse in May 2024, a similarly tragic—yet lesser-known—event occurred on August 5 in the Indian Himalayas. EClim member Simon Allen highlights the case of Dharali and Harsil, where more than 50 lives were likely lost. Unlike Blatten, no […]

Last month, EClim member Christian Huggel, together with Brian McArdell, led an intensive field-based course on Natural Hazard and Risk Analysis in Mountain Regions (GEO805) for University of Zurich students. After a day of learning how to simulate debris flows with RAMMS AG, the group headed to the Matter Valley (Herbriggen – St. Niklaus) for […]

At the conclusion of the International Mountain Conference (IMC) in Innsbruck, a special session co-organized by Christian Huggel (EClim, University of Zurich), Mylène Jacquemart, and Jan Beutel brought together close to 20 presentations focused on the glacier avalanche disaster in Blatten, Switzerland. In less than four months, researchers from Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, and […]

We’re proud to share that AskWMO, a conversational AI tool designed to make authoritative climate knowledge more accessible, has received the Royal Meteorological Society’s Award for Innovation. 🌍🤖 EClim member Saeid Ashraf contributed to the development of AskWMO, a pilot tool that integrates AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to provide trusted, transparent, and traceable […]

More than a month after the catastrophic glacier collapse and avalanche that devastated the Swiss mountain village of Blatten on 28 May 2025, recovery efforts are progressing—but significant challenges remain. EClim’s Christian Huggel shares his impressions after a visit to the Lötschental valley and reflects on the community assembly held to discuss reconstruction plans. 📌 […]

We are proud to share the latest open-access publication co-authored by EClim members Veruska Muccione and Saeid Ario Vaghefi, now available in PLOS Climate: Title: Mapping climate change education research: A scoping review (2008–2023)Read the paper here This comprehensive review analyzes more than 6,000 peer-reviewed publications using human coding and natural language processing (NLP) to […]