Atmos

EES Masters gave me the opportunity to acquire a wide range of skills and evolve into a researcher. The liberal structure of the curriculum allowed me to choose from very diverse courses; each one presenting a different (but extremely relevant) facet of the environmental challenge we face today. These perspectives enabled me to get a grasp on the scope of the problem, which ultimately influenced my decision to pursue a research project at IVEM. System analysis had already peaked my interest through the several courses/projects i undertook during the Masters. However, at IVEM I was also given the opportunity to use this approach to investigate a rather unconventional problem. My research project with Prof. Franco Ruzzenenti was an exhaustive exercise to find a correlation between to seemingly segmented commodities: crude oil prices and agricultural prices.Tackling this topic: constructing a cohesive and innovative methodology from a rather broad question was tremendously useful in helping me grow as a researcher.

Finally, climate change is an all encompassing problem pervades every system - ecological, social, economic. Combating it,  requires a holistic overview of all these systems and their interactions with one another. This in a nutshell was one of my key learnings from the Masters and it is something that has helped in the real world.