He is fellow of the Royal Met. Society and of the Inst. of Math. and Applications. He has authored two books and about 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals in applied mathematics, climate science, climate modelling, statistical mechanics, extreme value theory, dynamical systems, condensed matter physics. VL has been organiser or co-organiser of more than 60 international conferences/workshops/sessions, including programmes at the I. Newton Institute and H. Poincaré Institute and advanced schools in Les Houches and Cargèse, and has given more than 70 invited presentations. He has been member of the editorial board of Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Earth System Dynamics, Chaos, Physical Review E, and of two Springer book series. VL has supervised 15 PDRAs, 15 PhD students and more than 15 research students. He is recipient of the 2010 Arne Richter Award and of the 2020 Richardson Medal of the Eur. Geosci. Union, of the 2018 Whitehead Prize of the London Math. Society, of the 2021 Lorenz Lecture Award of the American Geophysical Union, and of the 2022 SIAM Mathematics of Planet Earth Prize. His research is currently funded by the EU through the Horizon 2020 project TiPES and the Marie Curie ITN CriticalEarth, and by EPSRC through the project EP/T018178/1. VL held an ERC Standard investigator Grant in 2010-2015 and has been directly responsible for research funds totalling over 8M Euros, obtained from national, EU, and international funders.