Welcome to my website! I'm Sebastian Berghald, a PhD researcher at KU Leuven (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences) and UCLouvain (Earth and Life Institute). My research focuses on understanding and modeling the climate as a system and how it is changing. Currently I'm working on my PhD project on causal links within the climate system of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, using advanced causal inference techniques and PARASO, a fully coupled ice sheet–ocean–sea ice–atmosphere–land model.

My previous work focused on using extreme value theory to detect recent trends in weather extremes, notably heat waves in Northern Europe and extreme precipitation in the French Alps. With my work, I hope to contribute to a deeper understanding of our changing climate. Please feel invited to explore my research and publications further on this site.