Fourth Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
16 - 22 November 2024
The Ravenala Attitude Hotel, Mauritius

Dr Sabina Abba Omar - Speaker

Developing data science solutions to mitigate the health impacts of climate change in Africa: the HE2AT Center (Researcher)

Sabina Abba Omar completed her PhD in Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her PhD work focused on understanding the characteristics of cut-off lows, a synoptic system that can bring substantial rainfall to the Western Cape Region of South Africa. After completing her PhD she took up a postdoctoral position at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. There her work mainly involved analyzing regional climate model data from the CORDEX initiative and exploring whether the models are able to represent some aspects of the Southern African climate system. Currently she holds the position of research officer in the Climate System Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town where some of her research involves high resolution regional climate model simulations of urban cities for heat stress information.