Emilie Gauthier

PhD student

Department of Compound Environmental Risks
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

Phone +49 341 6025 4885

emilie.gauthier@ufz.de

Emilie Gauthier

I am a doctoral researcher studying extreme wildfire events from a spatially compound perspective within Europe. In the past, fire risk has been typically analyzed at a regional scale; however, the impacts of compound events, where multiple wildfires occur simultaneously across different regions, can be dramatic. These compounded impacts are especially critical in the context of shared resources, as under the European Protection Agreement. In this project, I aim to analyze the spatial dependencies of wildfire risk using the Fire Weather Index, focusing on both historical data (through climate reanalysis) and future projections (using SMILEs simulations).

I am part of the Compound Climate Extremes research group led by Dr. Emanuele Bevacqua.

Research Interests

• Compound weather and extreme climate events
• Spatial dependencies of wildfires in Europe
• Impacts of climate change on wildfires events
• Fire Weather Index (FWI)
• SMILEs (Single model initial-condition large ensembles)

Scientific career

Since 2024 PhD student at the UFZ
2022-2024 Master in Geography - Global change at Université de Liège, Belgium
2019-2022 Bachelor in Meteorology at Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada