Olga Loegel is a User Engagement and Outreach Associate at the European Centre For Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. She manages the implementation of a new innovation competition to leverage Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) in weather forecasting. She also contributes to user outreach actions in support of other DestinE activities. This includes for example the engagement of public and private users to test advancements related to and added value of the DestinE Digital Twins.
Olga holds has over 5 years of experience fostering engagement between public scientific institutions, both governmental and intergovernmental, and their innovation ecosystems.
- September 2024 to current - User Engagement and Outreach Associate at ECMWF, Bonn - Delivering DestinE outreach and engagement actions.
- September 2022 to August 2024 - Business Analyst at the European Space Agency (ESA), Rome and Paris - Facilitated interactions between ESA’s various commercialisation programmes and their different stakeholders (entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, partner institutions).
- December 2020 to August 2022 - Public sector consultant at Wavestone, Paris - Coordinated innovation projects for several French public bodies, often being responsible for project scoping / implementation and effective stakeholders’ coordination.
- March 2020 - November 2020 - Innovation consultant and startup and technology scout at Starburst Accelerator, Paris - Initiated partnerships between the accelerator's industrial and institutional partners and the startups ecosystem.
