Claudia Acquistapace has a background in general Physics. She completed a PhD within the Marie Curie initial training network, focusing on drizzle detection using cloud-radar Doppler spectra, for which she received the 2019 Reinhard-Süring-Stiftung Research Award. She employed her postdoc to use her observations to evaluate the performance of the ICON-LEM numerical weather prediction model. She then actively participated in the 2020 EUREC4A measurement campaign. She also completed a master’s in science communication at the University of Trento, and she led the interdisciplinary project for a video documentary on women in science (“We too, what they don’t tell you”), funded by the University of Cologne. She has been a junior research group leader in Cologne, aiming to understand extreme precipitation events over the Alpine region using machine learning methods. Since 1st November 2025, she holds a tenure-track position at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua after winning the “Rita Levi Montalcini” excellence grant from the Italian Ministry of Research. Beyond research, she is engaged in science communication and advocacy, including projects addressing gender equality in science, and she regularly contributes to teaching and international collaborations.