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 ==== Carlos Pérez García-Pando ====
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-**Head of the Atmospheric Composition Group** \\
+**Co-leader of the Atmospheric Composition Group** \\
+**ICREA Research Professor** \\
 **AXA Professor on Sand and Dust Storms** \\
-**Ramón y Cajal Fellow** \\
 **Interests:** atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, mineral dust, effects upon climate
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 ==== Oriol Jorba ====
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+**Co-Group leader of the Atmospheric Composition Group** \\
 **Senior Researcher** \\
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 [[https://www.bsc.es/gonzalez-romero-adolfo|Adolfo Gonzalez Romero]]
+==== Alba Santos-Espeso ====
+{{working_groups:photo_asanto1.jpeg}} **PhD Student**  \\
+**Interests:** atmospheric composition, climate, Earth System Models, aerosols, Near Term Climate Forcers
+**Bio:**
+Alba Santos-Espeso is a PhD student at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), within the Earth Sciences Department, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). She received her BSc degree in Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain, in 2021. The following year, she completed her MSc degree in Meteorology and Geophysics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain. In the BSC, her work focuses on how atmospheric composition affects climate variability. In particular, she uses output from Earth System Models to isolate the effect of Near Term Climate Forcers on tipping elements.
 ==== Alessio Melli ====
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 **Bio**: BSc and MSc in Chemistry from Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy), PhD in Astrochemistry from Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (Italy).
-==== Cristina González Flórez ====
-**PhD Student**\\
+==== Angie Albarracin ====
+{{:working_groups:apc_0048.jpg?100|}} **Research Engineer**  \\
+**Interests:** atmospheric emissions, atmospheric composition, air quality, atmospheric modelling, air pollution
+**Bio:**
+I obtained my bachelor degree in Environmental Engineering from Colombia in 2014 and a Master's degree in Biological and Environmental Engineering from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2021. I was involved in a research project at the IDAEA-CSIC focused on studying the impact of electric vehicles on air quality and toxicity. Our goal was to provide technical solutions to the automotive industry and develop policy options to mitigate this impact. Previously, I was working in the Atmospheric Emissions Group at the District Environment Secretary (SDA) in Bogotá, Colombia. In that role, I was responsible for identifying pollutants emitted by point sources across various industries and I led audits as the principal auditor for emission and air quality studies.
+====Calum Meikle====
+{{:working_groups:cmeikle-bsc.jpeg?100|}} \\
+**Juniour Research Engineer** \\
+**Interests** data analysis, data processing
+**Bio**: I obtained my Bachelors and Masters in Mathematics at the University of Sheffield in the UK, with a specialism in mathematical physics. I worked in a private company as a Python Developer in Sheffield, before joining the BSC. Where I am mainly concerned with the curation of data and the processing of said data to be fed into the atmospheric composition models that are used in the group, as well as for evaluation of these models.
+====Camille Mouchel-Vallon====
+{{:working_groups:camille.jpeg?100 }} \\
+**Postdoctoral Researcher**\\
+**Interests:** air quality modeling, organic chemistry, multiphase chemistry, secondary organic aerosol, cloud and rain chemistry, wet deposition, machine learning
+**Bio**: Dr. Camille Mouchel-Vallon is a postdoctoral researcher in the Atmospheric Composition team of the BSC.
+He obtained his PhD in atmospheric chemistry from Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC, France, 2013) with a doctoral thesis conducted at the Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA, France) about the impact of cloud chemistry on atmospheric organic chemistry.
+He has since then been working as a postdoctoral researcher to develop multiphase organic chemistry mechanisms dedicated to studying cloud chemistry (Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, LaMP, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2013-2015), Criegee intermediates evolution (Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, WACL, York, UK, 2015-2017), the interactions of clean and polluted air masses in Amazonia (National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR, Boulder CO, USA, 2017-2020), the potential for accelerating chemistry integration through machine learning (Laboratoire d'Aérologie, LA, Toulouse, France, 2020-2021), the interactions of oceanic and polluted air masses in Réunion island (LA, 2021-2022) and wet deposition in West Africa (Laboratoire des Sciences des Structures de la Matière, de l'Environnement et de l'Energie Solaire, LASMES, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 2023).
+He started working at BSC in 2023 to develop and evaluate the next generation of chemical mechanisms to be used in large scale atmospheric models.
+==== Cristina González Flórez ====
+{{:working_groups:photo_cris_agu22.jpg?100 }} \\
+**Postdoctoral researcher**\\
-**Interests:** meteorology, air pollution, mineral dust, climate
+**Interests:** meteorology, air pollution, air quality, mineral dust, climate, atmospheric processes
-**Bio:** Cristina holds a Bachelor Degree in Physics (2017) and a Master Degree in Meteorology and Geophysics (2018) from the Complutense University (Madrid). In November 2018 she started a PhD on soil dust emission: field campaigns, theory and modeling at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in the framework of the project "FRontiers in dust minerAloGical coMposition and its Effects upoN climaTe" (FRAGMENT).
+**Bio:** Cristina received her BSc degree in Physics (2017) and MSc degree in Meteorology and Geophysics (2018) from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. In November 2018 she joined the Atmospheric Composition group of the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and in October 2023 she completed her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Program at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. The overall aim of her thesis, framed in the FRAGMENT project, has been to improve our fundamental and quantitative understanding of the emitted dust particle size distribution and its variability, based on the measurements from an intensive dust field campaign conducted in Morocco in 2019. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at BSC.
 ==== Dene Bowdalo ====
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 **PhD Student**\\
-**Interests:** mineral dust, climate, atmospheric & climate modelling, atmospheric chemistry
+**Interests:** iron cycle, mineral dust, climate, atmospheric & climate modelling, atmospheric chemistry, ocean biogeochemistry
-**Bio:** Elisa Bergas-Massó is a 2nd year Ph.D. student in the Environmental Engineering Program of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and currently conducts her research in the Atmospheric Composition group of the Earth Sciences Department of the BSC. She obtained her BSc degree in Physics with a mention in fundamental physics from Universitat de Barcelona (UB) in 2018. She completed her MSc degree in Meteorology at the same university in 2019. While doing the MSc degree, she did an internship in the Atmospheric Composition group of the Earth Sciences department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), working on mineral dust emissions. Since September 2019, in the scope of a Ph.D., she has focused her work on the iron cycle and its impact on the climate system. By means of numerical Earth System Models and thanks to High-Performance Computing environments, she explores the atmospheric sources of iron, the chemical processes involved in its dissolution and their relevance upon ocean biogeochemistry and carbon uptake in past, present and future climates.
+**Bio:** Elisa Bergas-Massó is a Ph.D. student in the Environmental Engineering Program of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and conducting her research in the Atmospheric Composition group of the Earth Sciences Department of the BSC. She obtained her BSc degree in Physics with a mention in fundamental physics from Universitat de Barcelona (UB) in 2018. She completed her MSc degree in Meteorology at the same university in 2019. While doing the MSc degree, she did an internship in the Atmospheric Composition group of the Earth Sciences department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), working on mineral dust emissions. Since September 2019, in the scope of a Ph.D., she has focused her work on the iron cycle and its impact on the climate system. By means of numerical Earth System Models and thanks to High-Performance Computing environments, she explores the atmospheric sources of iron, the chemical processes involved in its dissolution and their relevance upon ocean biogeochemistry and carbon uptake in past, present and future climates.
+==== Emanuele Emili ====
+{{:working_groups:eemili.jpg?100 |}} \\
-====Franco Rodrigo Lopez Coronado====
+**Co-leader of the Data Assimilation Forecasting and Applications team**\\
-[[https://www.bsc.es/lopez-coronado-franco-rodrigo|Franco Rodrigo Lopez Coronado]]
+**Interests:** Data assimilation, operational forecasts, satellite retrievals of trace gases and aerosols, atmospheric reanalyses
+**Bio:** Emanuele Emili obtained a Bachelor (2006) and Master Degree (2008) in Physics at the University of Roma La Sapienza, with a final dissertation on geophysical fluid dynamics. He then enrolled in a PhD program at the University of Bern (Switzerland) in collaboration with EURAC research (Italy) on the estimation of particulate matter from satellites. After the completion of the PhD (2011) he moved to the Centre Européen de Recherche et Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique (CERFACS, France) to pursue a Postdoc on assimilation of satellite data in chemical transport models. He then stayed in the same centre as Research Scientist on data assimilation for the atmospheric composition until 2023, where he contributed to multiple aspects related to assimilation of trace gases and aerosols within the Meteo France atmospheric composition model. He moved to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in June 2023 to coordinate the activities on operational forecasting of atmospheric composition, data assimilation and their applications.
+====Francesco Marangio====
+{{:working_groups:francesco_marangio.png?100|}}
+**Junior Research Engineer**
+**Interests:** Physics, Machine Learning, Data Analysis.
+**Bio:** MSc in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Amsterdam. Co-author a IEEE paper :https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMI50038.2021.9461904
+====Franco Lopez====
+**PhD Student**
+**Interests:** air quality modeling, plant physiology, microbial biotechnology
+**Bio:** Biotechnologist with a MSc. in Environmental Engineering (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).
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 **Bio**: Dr. Herve Petetin holds an engineering diploma from the Ecole Centrale de Lille (ECL, France, 2008), a M.Sc. in Mechanics and fluid dynamics from the University of Science and Technology Lille 1 (USTL, France, 2009), a M.Sc. in Atmospheric physics and chemistry from the University of Paris Est Creteil (UPEC, France, 2010) and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric physics and chemistry from the University of Paris Diderot (UPD, France, 2014). His doctoral thesis, entitled “Fine aerosol in a European megacity – Simulation of the sources”, was conducted at the Laboratoire Inter-universitaire des Systemes Atmospheriques (LISA, France) and AIRPARIF, the local agency in charge of monitoring and forecasting the air quality in the Paris region. Utilizing both detailed in-situ measurements of aerosol chemical speciation from several research campaigns (PARTICULES, MEGAPOLI, FRANCIPOL) and the CHIMERE regional chemistry-transport model, he investigated several features of fine aerosol (PM2.5) pollution the Paris region, including source apportionment, evaluation of emission inventories and formation regime of secondary inorganic aerosols. Over the period 2014-2018, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Laboratoire d’Aerologie (LA, France) in the French branch of the IAGOS European Research Infrastructure which operates worldwide meaurements of ozone and carbon monoxide on-board in-service aircraft since 1994. Based on this unique dataset of about 100,000 vertical profiles, he investigated the climotogical vertical distribution and trends of these two important gaseous pollutants, through both the entire troposphere and the planetary boundary layer. Using the FLEXPART particle dispersion model coupled to global carbon monoxide emission inventories, he also get expertise on the long-range transport of anthropogenic and biomass burning plumes. As part of the scientific team of IAGOS, he was involved in the TOAR (Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report, 2015-2018) international panel of experts on tropospheric ozone (IGAC initiative) that recently assessed the state-of-the-art knowledge on this pollutant. Over the last years, he developed a new expertise on machine learning through several well-recognised Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS), including “Machine learning” (Coursera, Stanford) and “Statistical learning” (Lagunita, Stanford). In 2018, he obtained a postdoctoral funding at the BSC from the STARS program (Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Action COFUND program) for working on the improvement of the air quality forecasts with machine learning techniques.
+==== James Petticrew ====
+{{:working_groups:me-eating.jpg?100 |}} \\
+**PhD Student**\\
+**La Caixa INPHINIT Incoming Fellow** \\
+**Interests:** Statistics, design and analysis of computer experiments, uncertainty quantification.
+**Bio:** James has an academic background in mathematics (BSc, Open University, UK) and statistics (MSc, University of Sheffield, UK). He has worked as a theoretical scientist for a defence contractor, specialising in uncertainty quantification for complex computer codes, and as a data scientist for a marketing startup.
+In 2023 James received a La Caixa foundation incoming INPHINIT fellowship to carry out his PhD project, "Constraining pollutant emissions by means of Earth systems observations and data-driven techniques" in the Atmospheric Composition group.
 ==== Jerónimo Escribano ====
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 **Bio:** Jerónimo Escribano holds a bachelor degree in Engineering, a Mathematical Engineering diploma and  a MSc. in Meteorology and Climatology from the University of Chile. He obtained his PhD. in atmospheric sciences from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université) at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD/IPSL, Paris, France) in 2017. His research interests include atmospheric composition numerical modelling and aerosol data assimilation. He joined the data assimilation team of the atmospheric composition group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in June 2018.
+==== Kevin Oliveira ====
+{{:working_groups:kevinoliveira.jpg?100 |}} \\
+**PhD Student**\\
+**FPI Fellow** \\
+**Interests:**  Emission and air quality modelling
+**Bio:** Kevin Oliveira earned both his BSc degree (2016) and MSc (2018) in Environmental Engineering from the University of Aveiro in Portugal. After completing his degree, he joined the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) as a research fellow. In 2021, he transitioned to the atmospheric composition group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center as a PhD student, supported by the FPI grant. Presently, his work focuses on emissions and air quality modeling, primarily addressing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and their impact on atmospheric chemistry and composition, particularly ozone.
 ==== Marc Guevara ====
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 ==== Montserrat Costa Surós ====
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-**Postdoctoral Researcher**
+**Postdoctoral Researcher** \\
-**STARS Fellow** \\
 **Interests:** aerosol-cloud interactions, radiative effects upon climate, aerosol and cloud observations, model evaluation.
 **Bio**: Dr. Montserrat Costa Surós graduated with an Extraordinary Award from a BSc Degree in Environmental Sciences (2005), and with a Master’s Degree in Environment (2009) from the University of Girona (UdG, Spain). During her doctoral studies (FPI fellow, 2008-2012), she did a research stay at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (USA, 2011) where she worked within the ARM program team, and another research stay at the company Vaisala Oyj. (Finland, 2012). After obtaining her PhD in Experimental Sciences and Sustainability (UdG, Spain, 2014), she had her first postdoctoral position at the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Warsaw (Poland, 2014-2016), where she was mainly involved in observations of aerosols, clouds, and water vapor by the means of a multi-wavelength Raman depolarization Lidar. She was also involved in the “MULTIPLY Project for the development of a European HSRL airborne facility”, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA). From 2006 until the end of 2019, she held a postdoctoral position at the Remote Sensing Group of the Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology of the University of Cologne (Germany). She was involved in the High Definition of Clouds and Precipitation for Climate Prediction (HD(CP)2) German Project analyzing the effects of aerosols on clouds and precipitation through model simulations and observations, investigating the sensitivity of aerosol perturbations to observables, and evaluating the ICON-LES model performance by comparing its output to several kinds of observations. In 2020, she joined the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC, Spain) as a Research Scientist in Climate Data Quality Control at the Earth Sciences Department performing a technical assessment of the climate datasets served by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). In 2021, she obtained a STARS fellowship (Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Action COFUND, within the H2020 Programme) for investigating the mineralogy in dust-cloud interactions and associated radiative forcing in the Atmospheric Composition group at the BSC. At the same time, she is also a Teaching Fellow at the UdG.
+==== Paula Camps Pla ====
+{{:working_groups:foto_paula_camps_pla.jpg?nolink&100 |}}\\
+**Junior Research Engineer** \\
+**Interests:** emission modelling, geographic information system, ozone
+**Bio:** Paula received her BSc degree in Industrial Engineering (2022) from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, performing an internship at //Anthesis//, focusing on the fields of air quality and climate change. She later obtained her MSc degree in Environmental Engineering (2024) from the same university, after completing her Master's Thesis at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Her thesis, supervised by Marc Guevara and María Gonçalves, focused on assessing the impact of local emission abatement measures on ozone levels in Catalonia. Currently, she is providing technical and scientific support for the development of emission estimation methodologies within the framework of the PRTyR EUNextGen project.
 ====Roger Garatachea Sole====
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 Currently, I am studying for my PhD in the Aerosol-radiation-cloud interactions group at the BSC, developing the dust heterogeneous chemistry of the MONARCH model as part of the FRAGMENT project. I am also working in developing the Global Aerosol mode of MONARCH and on setting updated Global Aerosol baseline simulations.
+==== Raphael Grodofzig ====
+**Junior Research Engineer** \\
+**Interests:** climate variability, atmospheric composition, data harmonization
+**Bio:** Raphael received his Bsc in Physics from the Technical University of Dresden in 2021. During an internship at the Alfred Wegener Insitute Bremerhaven, he focused on sea ice dynamics and sea-ice-interactions, and later completed his MSc in Meteorology, Oceanography and Climate Physics at Stockholm University in 2023. His final Master’s thesis assessed Amazon forest resilience in the context of internal climate variability in CMIP6 models. Currently, he assists the development of the atmospheric data set GHOST and provides technical support to the Data, Assimilation, Forecasting and Applications team.
+==== Guillaume Monteil ====
+** Postdoctoral researcher ** \\
-==== Jan Mateu Armengol ====
+**Interests:** atmospheric chemistry, greenhouse gas emissions, data assimilation
-{{:working_groups:jan_card_size_picture.jpg?105 |}}
-**Postdoctoral Researcher**
-**STARS Fellow** \\
-**Interests:** urban air quality modelling, uncertainty quantification (UQ), data assimilation (DA).
+**Bio:** I joined BSC in november 2023, to work on data assimilation of aerosols and gases. The aim is to use observations from various in-situ and remote (satellite) instruments to correct modelled estimates of the atmospheric composition, which lets us obtain an accurate representation of the atmospheric content in trace gases and aerols, while retaining the full regional or global coverage of the model. Before joining BSC, I obtained a PhD from Utrecht University (the Netherlands) in 2014, and then worked for several years as a researcher at Lund Universit (Sweden). In Utrecht and Lund, I worked mainly on inverse modelling estimate of greenhouse gas emissions, which is another form of data assimilation, where observations of the atmospheric composition are used to estimate greenhouse gas emission
-**Bio**: Jan’s research focuses on urban air quality modelling with emphasis in uncertainty quantification and data assimilation. He has expertise in the numerical computation of turbulent flows and thermal radiation transport.
-Jan holds a Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain, 2013). He obtained a MSc. degree in numerical heat transfer and fluid flow by the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil, 2015). After receiving his joint-PhD degree in mechanical engineering from both the Universidade Estadual de Campinas and the École Centrale Paris (France, 2019), he collaborated with L’École Polytechnique (France, 2020) as a postdoctoral researcher working on Bayesian inference and uncertainty quantification on reduced chemical schemes. Jan joined the Atmospheric composition group, as well as the Earth System Services group to apply uncertainty quantification and data assimilation methodologies to urban air quality simulations.
+==== Rafaela Alves ====
+** Research Engineer ** \\
+**Interests:** atmospheric chemistry, greenhouse gas emissions, atmospheric modelling
+**Bio:** I obtained my bachelor double degree in Environmental Engineering from Brasil and Portugal in 2017 and a Master's degree in Environmental Technology from the Institute Technology of Bragança, Portugal in 2018. Currently, I am a PhD student in Atmospheric Sciences focus on Greenhouse gas modelling in University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. I joined the BSC in march 2024, to work on evaluation and improvements in the air quality forecast operational systems.
+==== Òscar Collado ====
+{{:working_groups:oscar_collado.jpeg?100 |}}
+** Junior Research Engineer** \\
+**Interests:** Computational Physics,  Software Development, Atmospheric modelling, Air quality, Quantum Computing
+**Bio:** I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Barcelona (UB), I performed a three-month internship at //Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech//. I joined the Computational Earth Sciences group in April 2024.
+==== Isidre Mas Magre ====
+{{:working_groups:isidre-mas-magre.jpg?100 |}}
+** Research Engineer ** \\
+**Interests:** Computational Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Simulations, Air Quality, Human Health \\
+**Bio:** I received a BSc in Physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2020. My bachelor's thesis focused on modelling the exchange of radon gas in the air-water interface driven by wind. In 2021 I worked for a few months as an operator in a chemical plant before enrolling in a master's degree. In 2022, I got a MSc in Modelling for Science and Engineering specializing in Data Science. During my master I did an internship in Amphos 21, contributing to building surrogate models for geochemical reactions in cement systems using Machine Learning. I did my Master's Thesis in Football Analytics at the Statistical Physics Group of the UAB in close collaboration with Football Club Barcelona (FCB) and it involved developing software for analyzing match dynamics and building Graph Neural Networks models to predict performance metrics from pass networks.\\
+I joined BSC in October 2022 within the Material Science group in the CASE department. There I worked developing a suite of mini-applications from flagship ab initio electronic structure codes that closely reproduced relevant computational kernels to be tested in new HPC systems. The objective was to enable and promote co-design activities and establish a communication bridge between hardware vendors/engineers and software developers in the material science community.  I joined the Atmospheric Composition group in the Earth Sciences department in April 2024 to work on Machine Learning models and give support in HPC performance profiling and optimization.
+==== Vincenzo Obiso ====
+{{:working_groups:vincenzo_obiso.jpg?100 |}} \\
+**Postdoctoral Researcher** \\
+**AXA Chair on Sand and Dust Storms** \\
+**ERC Consolidator Grant (FRAGMENT)** \\
+**Interests:** Atmospheric modeling, aerosol-radiation interaction, aerosol physical and optical properties. \\
+**Bio:** I obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and Astrophysics (December 2006) and a Master's Degree in Physics (July 2010) by the University of Rome "Sapienza", with a thesis on the numerical calculation of gravitational waves generated by magneto-hydrodynamic instabilities. After university, I worked for 6 months (July 2011 - January 2012) at the Thales Alenia Space company (Turin), where I developed a performance model for an optical satellite link. I joined the BSC in July 2013, where I obtained my PhD in Environmental Engineering by the "Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya" in March 2018. My PhD thesis focused on sensitivity studies of aerosol radiative effect and optical properties to varying microphysical assumptions. During my PhD, I also implemented a first-generation full coupling between aerosols and radiation in the MONARCH atmospheric model. From April 2018 to May 2019, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the BSC, where I mainly refined the aerosol-radiation coupling mechanism in MONARCH with a focus on mineral dust, whose optical modeling was extended to include the non-spherical effect and an initial framework for the mineralogy effect. From August 2019 to July 2023, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS, New York), where I completed the implementation of a flexible mineral-radiation coupling along with the non-spherical effect for mineral dust in the GISS Earth system model (ModelE). In October 2023, I joined again the BSC, where my effort is mainly aimed at improving the optical modeling of dust minerals in MONARCH, in the context of a collaborative work with other state-of-the-art models involved in EMIT, a NASA project for the detection of soil mineral composition in global dust source regions and the creation of a new mineralogy atlas for Earth system models.
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    * Simone Marras - PhD student
    * Angel Rincón - PhD student
+==== Jan Mateu Armengol ====
+{{:working_groups:jan_card_size_picture.jpg?105 |}}
+**Postdoctoral Researcher**
+**STARS Fellow** \\
+**Interests:** urban air quality modelling, uncertainty quantification (UQ), data assimilation (DA).
+**Bio**: Jan’s research focuses on urban air quality modelling with emphasis in uncertainty quantification and data assimilation. He has expertise in the numerical computation of turbulent flows and thermal radiation transport.
+Jan holds a Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain, 2013). He obtained a MSc. degree in numerical heat transfer and fluid flow by the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil, 2015). After receiving his joint-PhD degree in mechanical engineering from both the Universidade Estadual de Campinas and the École Centrale Paris (France, 2019), he collaborated with L’École Polytechnique (France, 2020) as a postdoctoral researcher working on Bayesian inference and uncertainty quantification on reduced chemical schemes. Jan joined the Atmospheric composition group, as well as the Earth System Services group to apply uncertainty quantification and data assimilation methodologies to urban air quality simulations.
 ==== Simon Thomas ====
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 **Bio:** Matthew Dawson received a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh (USA) in 2009, and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine (USA) in 2014. His graduate work at UCI focused on laboratory studies of new particle formation and the development of a novel mechanism for the formation of particles from methanesulfonic acid, amines and water that accounts for the observed complex dependence on precursor concentrations. Post-doctoral research in the Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCI involved exploring the effects of recently identified aromatic oxidation pathways on secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in Southern California using the regional UCI-CIT air quality model, and incorporation of the CAPRAMv2.4-reduced aqueous chemistry mechanism into the particle-resolved aerosol model [[https://github.com/compdyn/partmc|Part-MC]]. He is currently working at BSC to incorporate an advanced SOA mechanism (CACM/MPMPO) into the NMMB-MONARCHv1.0 chemical weather prediction system in order to explore the effects of reactions of ammonia with organic aerosol leading the formation of brown carbon.
-==== Vincenzo Obiso ====
-{{:working_groups:vobiso.jpeg?100 |}} \\
-**Postdoctoral researcher** \\
-**AXA Chair on Sand and Dust Storms** \\
-**ERC Consolidator Grant (FRAGMENT)** \\
-**Interests:** Modeling of aerosol-radiation interaction and optical properties. \\
-**Bio:** I received a Bachelor Degree in Physics and Astrophysics (2006) and a Master Degree in Physics (2010) from the University of Rome "Sapienza". My studies focused on theoretical physics and in particular on simulations of gravitational waves from magneto-hydrodynamic instabilities. After the university, I worked for 6 months (2012) at Thales Alenia Space company (Turin), where I developed a performance model for an optical satellite link. I have been working at BSC since 2013, where I received my PhD in Environmental Engineering (from UPC) in March 2018. In my PhD thesis I focused on the implementation of a dynamic aerosol-radiation coupling mechanism in the NMMB-MONARCH atmospheric model. During the PhD I also performed sensitivity analyses of aerosol optical to microphysical properties. Currently I am a postdoctoral researcher at BSC, mainly working on the implementation in the NMMB-MONARCH of a dynamic dust-radiation coupling mechanism based on the dust mineralogy.
 ==== Manuel Porquet ====

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