Yona Silvy

Science Coordinator

IPCC

Yona is a climate scientist with a background in physical oceanography and climate modelling. Her research has mainly focused on large-scale physical changes in the ocean in a warming climate. She obtained a PhD from Sorbonne Université in Paris in 2022, working at LOCEAN-IPSL on the emergence of temperature and salinity changes in the ocean interior. She then moved on as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern in Switzerland, where she co-coordinated the Adaptive Emission Reduction Approach Model Intercomparison Project, gaining insights into the global carbon cycle and remaining carbon budget. Using new climate stabilisation simulations, she explored the multi-centennial response of large-scale ocean circulation and heat storage at different global warming levels.
Yona joined the WGI TSU remotely and part-time mid-March 2025 as Science Coordinator, and will be integrating the TSU in person and full-time early 2026.