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ekarnezi [Eleni Karnezi]
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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).
+==== Francesco Moncada ====
+{{:working_groups:francesco_moncada.jpg?100 |}} \\
+**PhD Student** \\
+**Interests:** climate physics, mineral dust, atmospheric & climate modelling, atmospheric physics
+**Bio:** I am a Ph.D. student in the Environmental Engineering program at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), researching the effects of dust on regional climate by integrating constrained dust-source mineralogy into climate models. My work is supervised by María Gonçalves (UPC) and Carlos Pérez García-Pando (Barcelona Supercomputing Center – BSC), where I conduct my research.
+I hold a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Milan and a master's degree in climate physics from Utrecht University. My master's thesis, conducted at the Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement (IGE) in Grenoble, focused on reconstructing meteorological datasets using machine learning techniques.
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 **Projects**: PANACEA (https://panacea-ri.gr/index.php/team/marioschatziparasxos/?lang=en)
 FORCes: (https://forces-project.eu/participants/)
+==== Marta Via ====
+**Postdoctoral Researcher**\\
+**Interests:**
+Organic aerosol, black carbon, particulate matter, aerosol sources, atmospheric composition.
+**Bio:**
+Dr. Marta Via is a postdoctoral researcher in the Atmospheric Composition Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), supported by a Juan de la Cierva fellowship. She earned her BSc in Physics (2013–2017) and an MSc in Meteorology (2017–2018) from the University of Barcelona (Spain). She completed her PhD at IDAEA-CSIC (2019–2023), focusing on particulate matter composition, particularly the source apportionment of organic aerosol. She then joined the SMASH MSCA COFUND program (2024–2026) at the University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia), where she developed machine learning methods for advanced source apportionment of particulate matter. She also participated in several field campaigns in the highly polluted western Balkans to identify major PM sources and worked on harmonizing elemental carbon measurements obtained through different measurement principles. Currently, she is working on evaluating air quality models using measurements, with a focus on the sources contributing to organic aerosol and elemental carbon.
 ==== Montserrat Costa Surós ====
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 **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.
+==== Patricia Tarín Carrasco ====
+\\
+**Postdoc Research** \\
+**Interests:** air pollution, climate change, compound events, and health impact assessment.
+**Bio:** Patricia Tarín-Carrasco, holds a PhD in Biodiversity and Environmental Management from the Universidad de Murcia (graded "Cum Laude", received International Mention and extraordinary final doctorate award for the 2020/2021 academic year). She is graduated in Environmental Sciences by Universidad de Murcia, Patricia got her master on pollution, toxicology and environmental health (specializing in environmental pollution) in Universidad de Valencia.
+During her PhD she studied the effects of air pollution in human health, causing chronic diseases and even death. And how further climate change influences air quality and therefore human health. She has developed his work in centers such as the University of Murcia, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy (Denmark) and Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Portugal).
+She received the final Extraordinary Doctorate award by the University of Murcia in her doctoral program, as well as the best oral communication award at the "I Symposium on Chemical and Physical Sciences for Young Researchers” organized by the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Murcia; the Young Researcher Award granted by the Spanish Association of Climatology at the "XI International Congress of the Spanish Association of Climatology”.
+Patricia Tarín-Carrasco joined to ISGlobal Barcelona (Institute for Global Health) as a postdoctoral researcher (2021-2024). She has been working on the ArcIce4MedCalRain project financed by "La Caixa Foundation", which aims to reduce uncertainties in future rainfall projections in Mediterranean Climates. She was awarded with the Juan de la Cierva fellowship which allowed her to investigate the effects of compound events (heat waves and stagnation) on tropospheric ozone concentration levels globally.
 ====Roger Garatachea Sole====
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 **Bio:**I studied physics in Universitat de València (2020) where I got interested in data science and remote sensing. Later I studied a master in remote sensing (2021) with a thesis on the behaviour of aerosols over Cape Verd, followed by another master in data science (2024) with a thesis on the usage of convolutional neural networks to classify flooded area on satellite images. After working for two years in finance related companies I settled for a PhD program here at the Earth Sciences department of BSC to work on new methods for forecasting aerosol concentration.
+==== Jayoung Yun ====
+{{:working_groups:jyun.jpg?100 |}}
+** Postdoctoral Researcher** \\
+** Interests:** data assimilation, dust-climate interactions, aerosols
+**Bio:** I joined the AC group at the BSC in October 2024 as a postdoctoral researcher. I obtained my PhD degree in Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. My PhD thesis focused on global dust impact on climate system. I used CESM to perform a sensitivity of dust simulations, and looked for a better understanding of comprehensive dust influences ENSO.
+Before my PhD, I worked as a research engineer at a private research company in South Korea, where I participated in various KMA-funded projects related to satellite meteorological data processing and real-time seasonal forecasting systems.
+==== Tito Vintimilla Cruz ====
+{{:working_groups:tito-vintimilla.jpg?100 |}}
+** Junior Research Engineer ** \\
+**Interests:** aerosol forecast products, geospatial data, remote sensing.
+**Bio:** I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Geology from the University of Liverpool in 2021. After a period of diverse work experiences in the UK and Ecuador, I moved to Barcelona and obtained my Master's degree in Geoinformation from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2024. During this time, I also collaborated with the Área Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB) team to develop and implement geospatial solutions and workflows for the objections phase of the Metropolitan Urban Master Plan (PDUM). After finishing my degree, I have now joined BSC as a Junior Research Engineer to work on the ATARRI project, where my efforts will be focused on developing high-quality training sessions and material on aerosol forecast products to help raise the research profile and capabilities of ECoE.
+==== Alba Badia Moragas ====
+{{:working_groups:img_20241002_140518.jpg?100|}}
+**Postdoctoral Researcher** \\
+**Interests:** air quality, ozone, aerosols, natural emissions, dry deposition, trend analysis.\\
+**Bio**: Alba obtained her bachelor degree in Mathematics from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). She holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2019-2014) and an MSc in Applied Mathematical Sciences with Climate Change Impacts Modeling from the Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh (2019). Her PhD entitled "Implementation, Development and Evaluation of the Gas-phase Chemistry within the Global/Regional NMMB/BSC Chemical Transport Model (NMMB/BSC-CTM, now MONARCH) (2009-2014) " was funded by the FPI-UPC grant. Her previous postdoctoral research was focused on quantifying the importance of reactive halogens and very-short-lived halocarbons in the marine atmosphere using the regional model WRF-Chem in the Environmental Department at the University of East Anglia (UEA), and the climate model CAM-Chem in the department of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB) studying how green infrastructures (in various forms from peri-urban agriculture to green roofs) impact the urban atmosphere (e.g. humidity, temperature, and air quality) using the WRF and WRF-Chem models coupled with urban canopy models. She has recently jointed the BSC to advance research in the role of natural emissions from vegetation and soil on air quality with the focus on ozone chemistry and secondary particle formation.
+==== Jens E. d'Hondt ====
+{{:working_groups:meta-portrait-improved-cropped.png?100 |}}
+** Postdoctoral Researcher ** \\
+**Interests:** Artificial Intelligence, Air quality prediction
+**Bio:** Jens is a postdoctoral researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), where he joined in December 2025. He holds a BSc in Industrial Engineering and an MSc in Data Science and Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He completed his PhD at TU/e in the Database Group, where his research focused on efficient algorithms for large-scale time series analysis, with an emphasis on similarity search. His work has been published in AI and data management venues such as SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE.
+At BSC, Jens works together with Dr. Hervé Pétetin on the development of physics-informed deep learning methods for
+downscaling atmospheric simulations (e.g., from the MONARCH model).
+==== Cristina Gil Díaz ====
+{{:working_groups:gil_diaz_cristina.jpeg?100 |}}
+** Postdoctoral Researcher ** \\
+**Interests:** meteorology, remote sensing, aerosols, clouds, modelling
+**Bio:** Cristina recieved her BSc degree in Physics (2019) from the University of Granada and her MSc degree in Meteorology and Geophysics (2020) from the Complutense University of Madrid. She then worked at Endesa as an operation supervision intern, where she developed Python-based tools to automatically validate processes in energy trading operations. She completed her Ph.D. in 2026 at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, focusing on characterization of cirrus clouds and dust aerosols using remote sensing measurements and radiative transfer models to study their radiative effects. In parallel, she obtained her MSc degree in Data Science and Engineering from the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in 2025. In 2026, she joined the Data, Assimilation, Forecasting and Applications group within Atmospheric Composition group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Her current work focuses on CAMS reports and improvements in dust forecasts.
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 **Bio:** I obtained my BSc degree in Physics with a specialization in fundamental physics at Universitat de Barcelona (UB) in 2018. After that, i completed a MSc in Applied Mathematics with a specialization in numerical simulation at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC). During this period i did an internship in a technological center at Basque Country working with new parameter estimation methods and techniques. Currently I am working at the AC group of BSC in data curation processes.
+==== Fernando Pacheco Bueno ====
+{{:phd_students:nfpb.jpg?100 |}} \\
+**PhD Student**\\
+**Interests:** Coarse dust modeling, numerical simulation, air quality, meteorology
+**Bio:** I am a Dust-DN fellow funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, currently working on the implementation of super-coarse dust in state-of-the-art atmospheric models and assessing its impact on climate. My research is conducted under the supervision of Carlos Pérez García-Pando at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and María Gonçalves at UPC. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the Salesian Polytechnic University (Ecuador), as well as a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and Technology and Postgraduate Studies in Weather and Climate Modeling from Ghent University (Belgium). Before moving to Barcelona, I completed an internship at ALSO Space in Brussels, where I supported the geospatial team and contributed to the dissemination and application of Copernicus data across Europe and Latin America.
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