The organising committee is delighted to announce Dr. Latifa Yousef as our next keynote speaker at the Biosystems Engineering 2026 conference. Her speech will be Climate Intelligence for Renewable Energy Systems: From Forecasting to Resilience.

Dr. Latifa Yousef is a climate and energy specialist with over a decade of experience advancing applied climate services, renewable energy research, and international scientific collaboration. She currently serves as a Project Manager at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva, where she leads WMO’s contributions to EU Horizon projects on climate resilience—CROSSEU and CARMINE—and supports global efforts to strengthen climate-informed energy services and the integration of AI into weather and climate applications.

Prior to joining WMO, Latifa was a Senior Researcher at the Technology Innovation Institute’s Renewable and Sustainable Energy Research Center in Abu Dhabi, where she managed interdisciplinary projects on climate-informed renewable energy systems and the Water-Energy-Food nexus, delivering technical insights to policymakers and national partners. She previously spent seven years at the UAE National Center of Meteorology, serving as Program Officer for the UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science, where she coordinated high-impact international research, led global expert networks, and organized flagship scientific forums.

Latifa holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Engineering focused on environmental and climate sciences, an MSc in Water and Environmental Engineering—both from Khalifa University—and a BSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Sharjah. She is the author of multiple peer-reviewed publications on renewable energy, cloud climatology, and atmospheric processes, and serves on the American Meteorological Society’s Renewable Energy Committee.