Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Arona is a research director at the Institute of Research for Development (IRD), University of Grenoble, France. Arona is currently working on hydroclimatic variability and on the environmental factors associated with extreme events over Africa (floods, drought, wet and dry spells, heat waves). His academic background is in atmospheric physics, climatology, and mathematics. He has a PhD in Meteorology from University of Paris XII, France