Simon Michael Papalexiou
Adjunct Professor Civil Geological and Environmental Engineering- Address
- 101-121 Research Drive
- Saskatoon SK
- S7N 1K2
Research Area(s)
- Water and climate
- Developing advanced stationary and non-stationary stochastic models to simulate hydroclimatic processes, including storms, flooding, drought, wind, etc., in space and time.
- Understanding, quantifying, and modelling the uncertainty and variability in hydroclimatic processes.
- Creating probabilistic tools to improve risk estimates of hydroclimatic extremes and assess changes.
- Using big data to assess global and regional changes in extremes due to Earth System change.
- Advancing bias-correction and downscaling methods for local-scale assessment of climate projections.
- Forming serial complete and probabilistic ensemble datasets of meteorological forcings.
Biography
Simon Michael Papalexiou is Professor of Natural Hazards in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary and also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Saskatchewan.. His research focuses on hydroclimatic variability and extremes, advanced space-time stochastic modeling, downscaling techniques, and climate change diagnostics. He has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed articles in top-tier journals and presented at over 120 conferences worldwide. Simon leads the development of CoSMoS, a widely used software suite for stochastic modeling with a global user base. He serves as Associate Editor for Water Resources Research (AGU) and the Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier), and has reviewed for more than 50 scientific journals. He also organizes scientific workshops and regularly convenes sessions on time series modeling. He is Vice-President of the International Commission on Statistical Hydrology (ICSH-IAHS) and Team Lead for the Storms Module in the UNU Sustainability Nexus AID program. His contributions have earned several honors, including the 2024 AGU Natural Hazards Early Career Award and multiple Best Paper Awards. His work has been selected as Editor’s Choice in Science Magazine, Editor’s Highlight in Earth’s Future, and featured four times in AGU’s Eos Science News Magazine. His research has received wide media attention, with coverage by over 100 news outlets, including features on radio and television.