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Mohamed Ali Ben Alaya
Mohamed Ali Ben Alaya is a Research Associate at PCIC assisting with the completion of a variety of PCIC’s user-commissioned projects. Ben Alaya is also with the Global Water Futures research program, working on a climate related precipitation extremes project, in which he is studying estimates of precipitation extremes to inform engineering design.
Mohamed Ali gained his PhD and MSc in Water Sciences at the INRS-ETE in Quebec, and hold an engineering degree in Hydro-meteorology from the National school of engineer of Tunis (ENIT, Tunisia). His research interests include statistical climate downscaling and flood risk assessment in a changing climate. He is a reviewer of journal of climate, Journal of applied meteorology and climatology and stochastic environmental research risk assessment. His PhD work focused on the development of new probabilistic multisite models for precipitation and temperature downscaling.