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-**Bio:** Dr Anindita Patra holds an MSc in Physics and a PhD in Ocean and Climate from IIT Kharagpur. She has over six years of postdoctoral research experience with several institutions, including: POSTECH, South Korea; University of Hull, UK; IFREMER, Edf Lab Paris-Saclay, and France Énergies Marines, France. Her research focuses on a range of topics, such as: Climate change impacts on extremes, Wave and hydrodynamic modelling, Detection and attribution of climate change, Climate change impact on wind energy, Climate data downscaling. Since June 2025, she has been working at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), primarily on projects related to climate and health.
+**Bio:** Dr Anindita Patra holds an MSc in Physics and a PhD in Ocean and Climate from IIT Kharagpur, India. She has over six years of postdoctoral research experience with several institutions, including: POSTECH, South Korea; University of Hull, UK; IFREMER, Edf Lab Paris-Saclay, and France Énergies Marines, France. Her research focuses on a range of topics, such as: Climate change impacts on extremes, Wave and hydrodynamic modelling, Detection and attribution of climate change, Climate change impact on wind energy, Climate data downscaling. Since June 2025, she has been working at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), primarily on projects related to climate and health.
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-==== Sara Basart ====
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-**Postdoctoral Researcher in the Atmospheric Composition Group**\\
-[[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara_Basart|Personal page]]\\
-**Interests:** dust modelling and feedback processes, air quality, aerosols, meteorology, end-user products.\\
-**Bio**: Dr Sara Basart (female) received a degree in Physics from the University of Barcelona (UB). She studied a Masters in Meteorology and Climatology at the University of Barcelona (UB). Dr Basart obtained her PhD degree in Engineering Environmental (Degree of European Doctor) at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in January 2012 while doing her research at different research centres (Centro de Investigación Atmosférica de Izaña, Spain, and  Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, France). Her main research background covers mineral dust modelling, air quality and aerosols.
-At present, Dr Basart is a researcher in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She is the scientist in charge of the WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System ([[http://sds-was.aemet.es/|SDS-WAS]]) Regional Center for Northern Africa, Middle East and Europe, and the Barcelona Dust Forecast Center ([[http://dust.aemet.es/|BDFC]]), hosted in BSC. She also participates in international projects like the International Cooperative on Aerosol Prediction ([[http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/aerosol/icap.1135.php|ICAP]]) initiative and ACTRIS (ACTRIS and ACTRIS-2). She is leading the BSC participation in Copernicus (CAMS-84). She has authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and book chapters.
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 ==== Dragana Bojović ====
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-==== Jose Luis Cánovas ====
-{{:working_groups:foto-canovas_256px.jpg?100 |}} \\
-**Journalist and Communications Manager** \\
-[[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlcanovas/?locale=en_US|LinkedIn]]\\
-**Interests:** Science communication, knowledge transfer, global health, climate change, clean energy \\
-**Bio:** Jose Luis Cánovas has a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Communication from the Universidad CEU UCH of Valencia and Postgraduate degrees in Digital Journalism from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Investigative Reporting from the Universitat Ramon Llull (URL) of Barcelona. With over 10 years of experience working in the media industry, international events and corporate communication, he has specialized in science, technology and health. As a science communication specialist of the Earth System Services group at BSC-ES he facilitates knowledge transfer to the media and society.
+==== Cristina Carnerero ====
+{{:working_groups: cristina_carnerero_crop.jpg?100|}} \\
+**Postdoctoral Researcher** \\
+**Interests:** air quality management, air pollution exposure, end-user products, environmental justice. \\
+**Bio:** Dr. Cristina Carnerero is an environmental researcher focusing on air quality modelling, exposure analysis, and air quality management. She holds a BSc in Physics and MSc in Meteorology from the University of Barcelona. She obtained a PhD in environmental engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She joined the Air Quality Services team at Barcelona Supercomputing Center in 2023, where she actively participates in local, national and international projects (CALIOPE Air Quality Forecast System, MePreCiSa, CyCLONE, UrbanAIR). She is co-supervisor of 2 PhD thesis on air pollution exposure assessment in urban environments (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and has co-autored 8 papers in internation scientific journals.
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-==== Chihchung Chou ====
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-**Recognised Researcher**\\
-**Interests:** Climate prediction, Hydrometeorology, Land-atmosphere interaction, Agricultural and water management
-**Bio**: Chihchung Chou used to work on the relationship between the algal bloom of surface water bodies such as lakes and reservoirs and the varying characteristics of the water environment during his Master's degree of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the National Taiwan University in Taiwan. His PhD research aimed at improving the understanding of the effect of large-scale agricultural irrigation on the monsoonal rain as well as the resulting potential feedback mechanisms of the land-atmosphere interaction behind. After the completion of his PhD at the University of Melbourne, Australia, he joined the Earth System Services Group in Oct 2019, and he will work on the seasonal climate prediction relating to the agricultural and water management in Barcelona.\\
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-==== Konstantina Chouta ====
-{{:working_groups:konchouta_foto.jpg?100|}}
-**Master Student**\\
-[[https://www.linkedin.com/in/konchouta/ | Personal page]]\\
-**Interests:** air quality, mineral dust, science communication, end-user products \\
-**Bio:** Konstantina holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Athens and a MSc in Environmental Engineering from the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).
-She joined the BSC in October 2019 to conduct her Master Thesis entitled “Impact Assessment of Sand and Dust Storms on key socio-economic sectors: Aviation”. Since then, she forms part of the ESS group and the Knowledge Transfer team and she is working in projects related to air quality, as well as to the re-design of operational services (Barcelona Dust Regional Center, CALIOPE). \\
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 ==== Marina Conde Ramos ====
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 **Interests:** Software Engineering, Software Quality, Agile methodologies, User Experience, Data Management, Data Mining, Machine Learning and Python. \\
-**Bio:** Marina Conde received a degree in Informatics Engineering from Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 2012. She has working experience as a Software Engineer in the area of Business Intelligence Reports, among others. Her main role at the Earth System Services group (ESS-BSC) is to work on the creation and improvement of the operational services websites. \\
+**Bio:** Marina Conde holds a Informatics Engineering degree from the Barcelona School of Informatics. She is a dedicated web engineer with a strong specialization in building dynamic, user-centered web products, particularly those powered by Content Management Systems (CMS). Passionate about creating digital solutions within the scientific dissemination context. She focuses on improving user experience, and streamlining content management workflows.\\
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 **Bio:** Xavier Domingo holds a BSC in Physics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), a MSc in experimental condensed matter physics from the RWTH Aachen University, and a Master in Education from the Valencian International University (VIU). He has worked in multiple fields of applied science: electronics, condensed matter, photonics, optics, biophysics, neuroengineering, and earth observation via satellite. He also has experience in teaching, both in academies and schools. He joined the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the Climate Services Team in May 2024. At BSC he is leading WP2 in the Climateurope2 project.
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-==== Nube Gonzalez-Reviriego ====
-{{:working_groups:members:fotonubebw.jpg?100 |}} \\
-**Postdoctoral Researcher**\\
-**Interests:** Research on climate services tailored to different sectors such as renewable energy, agriculture and food security. Seasonal forecast quality assessment. Teleconnection patterns and weather regimes. Climate projections. Development of novel strategies to better communicate research results to the end users.
+==== Florence Gignac ====
+{{:working_groups:professional_pictureflorence.jpg?100|}}\\
-**Bio:** Dr. Nube Gonzalez received a degree in Physics from the University of Salamanca (USAL). She studied a Masters in Meteorology and Climatology at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) under a fellowship from "la Caixa" Foundation. She joined the Climate Investigation and Application Group (GICA) of the USAL under a FPI fellowship, where she holds an international PhD in “Research and Development of Geotechnologies” in year 2015. Her Doctoral Thesis, entitled “Evaluación de las teleconexiones climáticas observadas y simuladas con modelos de CMIP en la región Euro-Atlántica” focus on Northern Hemisphere Teleconnections with outputs of Global Climate Models (GCM ́s) from CMIP3 and CMIP5 datasets under different emission scenarios and comparison with Re-analysis data. In year 2013 she started to work at Institut Català de Ciències del Clima (IC3) in the Climate Forecasting Unit (CFU) where she was involved in the development and communication of climate services for energy. Currently, she is leading the Climate Services team (consisting of 10 people) within the Earth System Services Group at BSC. Her expertise lies in sub-seasonal, seasonal and decadal climate predictions for the development of climate services tailored to sectoral needs of different sectors: agriculture, renewable energy, water management and retail. She is an expert on co-development and capacity building in the context of climate services. She has participated in ten European projects (MED-GOLD, S2S4E, FOCUS, VITIGEOSS, EUCP, VISCA, INDECIS, IMPREX, SPECS and EUPORIAS), six Spanish projects, one cooperation project and four private contracts (C3S and private companies). She has supervised MSc and PhD students and has experience teaching at university.
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-==== Marc Guevara ====
-{{:working_groups:mguevara.jpeg?100 |}} \\
 **Postdoctoral Researcher**\\
+[[https://www.linkedin.com/in/florence-gignac-phd-82454793/]]\\
-**Interests:** emissions, geographic information system, air quality modelling
+**Interests:** citizen science, participatory methods, environmental epidemiology
-**Bio:** Dr. Marc Guevara holds B.S. in Industrial Engineering (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, October 2010) and PhD in Environmental Engineering (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, December 2014). He is a postdoc researcher with 6 years’ experience in the areas of Emissions and Air Quality. His main expertise includes high resolution emission modelling (development, evaluation and improvement), air quality modelling, geographic information systems and environmental impact assessment. He is co-chair of the Emissions Working Group of the FAIRMODE community. He coordinated the development and implementation of an air quality forecast system for the Mexico City's Environment Secretary. He has participated in the Spanish air quality-related CALIOPE-And project and the FP7 Framework programme APPRAISAL, as well as in several national technology transfer projects related with air quality impact assessment. He has participated in capacity building and transfer of knowledge activities with technical people of the Environmental Ministry of Turkey (period of Execution: Jun 2013). He has coauthored 13 papers in international scientific journals and 8 communications to International conferences.
+**Bio:** Florence is an environmental geographer and epidemiologist with a PhD from the ISGlobal Institute for Global Health-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she specialized in air pollution, health, and citizen science. Her work centers on participatory research methods to study environmental challenges in urban settings, including air pollution, lack of green spaces, and rising heat. She joined the BSC Earth System Services group in February 2025 as a member of the Knowledge Integration team.
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 ==== Alba Llabrés Brustenga ====
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-==== Albert Martínez Botí ====
-{{:working_groups:Albert_Martinez.jpg?100|}} \\
-**Junior Research Engineer**\\
-**Interests:**  Climate prediction, climate variability, modelling, numerical weather prediction, extreme events. \\
-**Bio:** Albert Martinez holds a BSc in physics from "Universitat of Valencia" and a master's degree in Meteorology from "Universitat de Barcelona". He has been working at BSC since 2020 on projects involving the coproduction and development of climate services products. The main project in which Albert is involved consists of a coproduction process in which climate services products addressed to the retail Decathlon company are developed in order to provide support and help in climate-sensitive decision-making. Albert is also working on the FOCUS AFRICA project, especially on the design of a vignette that will be used by the National Meteorological Services of SADC (South African Development Countries) as training material addressed to help them to fill some capacity gaps related to the processing and post-processing of seasonal climate data.
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 ==== Jan Mateu Armengol ====
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-==== Nadia Milders ====
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-**Junior Research Engineer**\\
-**Interests:** Climate prediction, climate variability, modelling, climate change, oceanography.
-**Bio**: Nadia Milders has a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Maastricht University, Netherlands, and a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She did her master’s thesis project shared between BSC and Institut de Ciències del Mar, concerning the development of a remote sensing algorithm for the prediction of the climate gas, dimethyl sulphide, in the Southern Ocean. She joined BSC in April 2022 and is working in the Climate Services team on seasonal climate predictions.
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 ==== Andria Nicodemou ====
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-==== Ángel Paes ====
+==== Matías Olmo ====
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+{{:working_groups:olmo.jpg?100|}} \\ **Recognised Researcher** \\
-**Master student**\\
+**Interests:** climate projections, extreme events, statistical downscaling, atmospheric circulation, climate attribution.\\
-**Interests:** Climate change, climate projections, renewable energy \\
-**Bio**: Ángel Paes studied Physics at Universidad de Valladolid and is currently doing a Master’s Degree in Meteorology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. As an internship, he joined BSC to develop surface temperature indicators for the European Environment Agency (EEA).
+**Bio:** Matías Olmo is an early-career postdoctoral researcher at the Climate Services Team of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He holds a BSC AI4Science fellowship devoted to advancing understanding of the Mediterranean hotspot. His research is focused on regional climate projections, and has active participation in several national and international projects and initiatives. His recent studies include process-based constraints of climate projections, synoptic climatology and climate attribution in the Mediterranean region. He is now part of the CORDEX Machine Learning scientific team, and supervises a PhD thesis on climate attribution at the University of Barcelona.
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-==== Herve Petetin ====
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-**Postdoctoral Researcher**\\
-**STARS Fellow** \\
-**Interests:** air quality, aerosols, ozone, emissions, biomass burning, pollution long-range transport, pollution vertical distribution, trend analysis, boundary layer dynamics, machine learning.\\
-**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.
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-==== Jaume Ramon ====
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-**Postdoctoral researcher** \\
-**Interests:** Reanalysis, climate services, climate prediction, wind speed variability, wind power forecasting, Numerical Weather Prediction, extreme events.
-**Bio:**  Jaume Ramon is a post-doctoral researcher at the Climate Services team in the Earth Sciences department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He has 5 years of experience in the field of seasonal forecasting. His PhD thesis, entitled 'High quality observations for improved seasonal predictions. Implications for the wind energy sector', focused on improving seasonal predictions for wind speed from the perspective of the observations. Among others, he has worked with techniques such has bias adjustment, forecast verification or statistical downscaling. All three first-author papers produced within the framework of his PhD thesis have been published in top ranked journals, achieving more than 200 citations (as per February 2023). He has been or is currently involved in several projects (INDECIS, S2S4E, HARMONIZE, IDAlert, FOCUS and E4WARNING). He is currently supervising two MSc students. \\
-PhD thesis: http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/185754 \\
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-==== Daniel Rodríguez ====
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-**PhD Student** \\
-**Interests:** Air quality management, urban air chemistry, urban mobility, socio-economic factors of climate change.
-**Bio:** Daniel Rodriguez has a degree in chemical engineering by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), and a MSc in Air Quality Management by the University of Birmingham, in UK. He has done an intership as air quality technician at Barcelona Regional and worked in a environmental consultancy, Enitial (UK), as a field technician. He is currently doing a PhD at the BSC in the Earth System Services department about the coupling of microscopic traffic simulators with emission and air quality models in order to develop a tool able to assess and determine the impact of air quality and traffic restriction policies at Barcelona.
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 ==== Albert Soret ====
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-**Science communication for Earth System Services**\\
+**Knowledge integration for Earth System Services**\\
 [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/marta-terrado-b55879b0/|Personal page]]\\
 [[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marta_Terrado/|ResearchGate profile]]\\
-**Interests:** knowledge transfer, communication and dissemination of scientific research, climate & ecosystem services.\\
+**Interests:** knowledge integration, science communication, engagement, inclusiveness, climate services, ecosystem services\\
-**Bio**: Dr. Marta Terrado has a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Barcelona and a Master's degree in Geographical Information Systems from the Polytechnic University of Catalunya. She has ten years of post-doctoral experience in water management, ecosystem services and climate services research, and has been involved in various national and EU funded projects on water scarcity and adaptation to climate change. As a science communication specialist in the Earth System Services group at BSC, she facilitates knowledge and technology transfer on climate services to users and the general society. She leads the communication, dissemination and user engagement actions in the H2020 projects APPLICATE (727862) and Copernicus Climate Change Service C3S_429 (Press Data Portal). She is currently involved in the dissemination tasks of the H2020 projects MED-GOLD (776467) and VitiGEOSS (869565), as well as the contract on seasonal hurricane predictions sponsored by the global reinsurer AXA (www.seasonalhurricanepredictions.org).
+**Bio**: Dr. Marta Terrado is a senior researcher in the Earth Sciences department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain, where she co-leads the Knowledge Integration team working to bridge the gap between science and society. She holds a PhD in Earth Sciences, a Master's degree in Geographical Information Systems and a Postgraduate in Science Communication. Her research interests include human-environment relationships with a particular focus on climate change, environmental issues and societal implications and how technology can be of help. Recently, she has focused on the application of innovative tools for science communication and dissemination, stakeholder engagement and knowledge co-production to facilitate accessibility and uptake of climate and environmental services.
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-==== Balakrishnan Solaraju Murali ====
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-**PhD student**\\
-**Interests:** Climate prediction, Climate services and Forecast verification.\\
-**Bio**: Balakrishnan has a MSc. degree in Aerospace Mechanics and Avionics from ISAE Supaero, Toulouse and a B.Tech degree in Aerospace Engineering from SRM University, India. He is currently pursuing his PhD titled 'Prospects for decadal predictions in a Climate Service Context' in Earth Science Department at BSC. His research is focused on evaluating forecast quality and the predictability sources of Decadal climate prediction. During his PhD work, he will be involved in EU funded projects such as JRC-Decadal and EUCP.
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-==== Ilaria Vigo ====
-{{:working_groups:foto_ilaria_bio.jpeg?100|}} \\
-**Environmental Economist**\\
-**Interests:** Environmental Economics, Science Communication and Stakeholder Engagement for climate services.\\
-**Bio**: Ilaria Vigo holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from University of Pavia. She devoted part of her studies to the research on Environmental Economics. Ilaria has experience as Policy Adviser consulting in European Commission funded projects, for Governments and for private sector as well. Additionally, she worked as Research Assistant in Economics at Pompeu Fabra University.  In order to generate a social impact, Ilaria believes in the importance of communication and stakeholder engagement. She has experience in event management and communication activities. Finally, Ilaria is native Italian, fluent in English and Spanish, and intermediate in Portuguese.
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 ==== Diana Urquiza ====
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-==== Guillermo López ====
-{{:working_groups:guillermo_lopez.jpg?100 |}} \\
-**Master Student**\\
-**Interests:**  Renewable energies, climate services, modelling, wind power generation\\
-**Bio:** Guillermo López has a BSc in Physics from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and is doing a MSc in Energies and Fuels for the future at the same university. He joined BSC in December 2022 to do his Master's thesis and internship. Guillermo is currently working on the Tall Tower Dataset and winds at 100 metres, studying the variability and impact in the wind energy sector.
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+==== Sara Basart ====
+{{https://earth.bsc.es/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=research_groups_and_staff:img_20160620_221138_small.jpg?100 |}} \\
+**Postdoctoral Researcher in the Atmospheric Composition Group**\\
+[[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara_Basart|Personal page]]\\
+**Interests:** dust modelling and feedback processes, air quality, aerosols, meteorology, end-user products.\\
+**Bio**: Dr Sara Basart (female) received a degree in Physics from the University of Barcelona (UB). She studied a Masters in Meteorology and Climatology at the University of Barcelona (UB). Dr Basart obtained her PhD degree in Engineering Environmental (Degree of European Doctor) at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in January 2012 while doing her research at different research centres (Centro de Investigación Atmosférica de Izaña, Spain, and  Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, France). Her main research background covers mineral dust modelling, air quality and aerosols.
+At present, Dr Basart is a researcher in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She is the scientist in charge of the WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System ([[http://sds-was.aemet.es/|SDS-WAS]]) Regional Center for Northern Africa, Middle East and Europe, and the Barcelona Dust Forecast Center ([[http://dust.aemet.es/|BDFC]]), hosted in BSC. She also participates in international projects like the International Cooperative on Aerosol Prediction ([[http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/aerosol/icap.1135.php|ICAP]]) initiative and ACTRIS (ACTRIS and ACTRIS-2). She is leading the BSC participation in Copernicus (CAMS-84). She has authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and book chapters.
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+==== Jose Luis Cánovas ====
+{{:working_groups:foto-canovas_256px.jpg?100 |}} \\
+**Journalist and Communications Manager** \\
+[[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlcanovas/?locale=en_US|LinkedIn]]\\
+**Interests:** Science communication, knowledge transfer, global health, climate change, clean energy \\
+**Bio:** Jose Luis Cánovas has a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Communication from the Universidad CEU UCH of Valencia and Postgraduate degrees in Digital Journalism from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Investigative Reporting from the Universitat Ramon Llull (URL) of Barcelona. With over 10 years of experience working in the media industry, international events and corporate communication, he has specialized in science, technology and health. As a science communication specialist of the Earth System Services group at BSC-ES he facilitates knowledge transfer to the media and society.
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+==== Chihchung Chou ====
+{{:working_groups:cchou.jpg?100|}}\\
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+**Recognised Researcher**\\
+**Interests:** Climate prediction, Hydrometeorology, Land-atmosphere interaction, Agricultural and water management
+**Bio**: Chihchung Chou used to work on the relationship between the algal bloom of surface water bodies such as lakes and reservoirs and the varying characteristics of the water environment during his Master's degree of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the National Taiwan University in Taiwan. His PhD research aimed at improving the understanding of the effect of large-scale agricultural irrigation on the monsoonal rain as well as the resulting potential feedback mechanisms of the land-atmosphere interaction behind. After the completion of his PhD at the University of Melbourne, Australia, he joined the Earth System Services Group in Oct 2019, and he will work on the seasonal climate prediction relating to the agricultural and water management in Barcelona.\\
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+==== Konstantina Chouta ====
+{{:working_groups:konchouta_foto.jpg?100|}}
+**Master Student**\\
+[[https://www.linkedin.com/in/konchouta/ | Personal page]]\\
+**Interests:** air quality, mineral dust, science communication, end-user products \\
+**Bio:** Konstantina holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Athens and a MSc in Environmental Engineering from the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).
+She joined the BSC in October 2019 to conduct her Master Thesis entitled “Impact Assessment of Sand and Dust Storms on key socio-economic sectors: Aviation”. Since then, she forms part of the ESS group and the Knowledge Transfer team and she is working in projects related to air quality, as well as to the re-design of operational services (Barcelona Dust Regional Center, CALIOPE). \\
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+==== Nube Gonzalez-Reviriego ====
+{{:working_groups:members:fotonubebw.jpg?100 |}} \\
+**Postdoctoral Researcher**\\
+**Interests:** Research on climate services tailored to different sectors such as renewable energy, agriculture and food security. Seasonal forecast quality assessment. Teleconnection patterns and weather regimes. Climate projections. Development of novel strategies to better communicate research results to the end users.
+**Bio:** Dr. Nube Gonzalez received a degree in Physics from the University of Salamanca (USAL). She studied a Masters in Meteorology and Climatology at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) under a fellowship from "la Caixa" Foundation. She joined the Climate Investigation and Application Group (GICA) of the USAL under a FPI fellowship, where she holds an international PhD in “Research and Development of Geotechnologies” in year 2015. Her Doctoral Thesis, entitled “Evaluación de las teleconexiones climáticas observadas y simuladas con modelos de CMIP en la región Euro-Atlántica” focus on Northern Hemisphere Teleconnections with outputs of Global Climate Models (GCM ́s) from CMIP3 and CMIP5 datasets under different emission scenarios and comparison with Re-analysis data. In year 2013 she started to work at Institut Català de Ciències del Clima (IC3) in the Climate Forecasting Unit (CFU) where she was involved in the development and communication of climate services for energy. Currently, she is leading the Climate Services team (consisting of 10 people) within the Earth System Services Group at BSC. Her expertise lies in sub-seasonal, seasonal and decadal climate predictions for the development of climate services tailored to sectoral needs of different sectors: agriculture, renewable energy, water management and retail. She is an expert on co-development and capacity building in the context of climate services. She has participated in ten European projects (MED-GOLD, S2S4E, FOCUS, VITIGEOSS, EUCP, VISCA, INDECIS, IMPREX, SPECS and EUPORIAS), six Spanish projects, one cooperation project and four private contracts (C3S and private companies). She has supervised MSc and PhD students and has experience teaching at university.
+----
+==== Marc Guevara ====
+{{:working_groups:mguevara.jpeg?100 |}} \\
+**Postdoctoral Researcher**\\
+**Interests:** emissions, geographic information system, air quality modelling
+**Bio:** Dr. Marc Guevara holds B.S. in Industrial Engineering (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, October 2010) and PhD in Environmental Engineering (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, December 2014). He is a postdoc researcher with 6 years’ experience in the areas of Emissions and Air Quality. His main expertise includes high resolution emission modelling (development, evaluation and improvement), air quality modelling, geographic information systems and environmental impact assessment. He is co-chair of the Emissions Working Group of the FAIRMODE community. He coordinated the development and implementation of an air quality forecast system for the Mexico City's Environment Secretary. He has participated in the Spanish air quality-related CALIOPE-And project and the FP7 Framework programme APPRAISAL, as well as in several national technology transfer projects related with air quality impact assessment. He has participated in capacity building and transfer of knowledge activities with technical people of the Environmental Ministry of Turkey (period of Execution: Jun 2013). He has coauthored 13 papers in international scientific journals and 8 communications to International conferences.
+----
+==== Albert Martínez Botí ====
+{{:working_groups:Albert_Martinez.jpg?100|}} \\
+**Junior Research Engineer**\\
+**Interests:**  Climate prediction, climate variability, modelling, numerical weather prediction, extreme events. \\
+**Bio:** Albert Martinez holds a BSc in physics from "Universitat of Valencia" and a master's degree in Meteorology from "Universitat de Barcelona". He has been working at BSC since 2020 on projects involving the coproduction and development of climate services products. The main project in which Albert is involved consists of a coproduction process in which climate services products addressed to the retail Decathlon company are developed in order to provide support and help in climate-sensitive decision-making. Albert is also working on the FOCUS AFRICA project, especially on the design of a vignette that will be used by the National Meteorological Services of SADC (South African Development Countries) as training material addressed to help them to fill some capacity gaps related to the processing and post-processing of seasonal climate data.
+----
+==== Nadia Milders ====
+{{:working_groups:foto_nadia_milders.jpg?100 |}}
+**Junior Research Engineer**\\
+**Interests:** Climate prediction, climate variability, modelling, climate change, oceanography.
+**Bio**: Nadia Milders has a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Maastricht University, Netherlands, and a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She did her master’s thesis project shared between BSC and Institut de Ciències del Mar, concerning the development of a remote sensing algorithm for the prediction of the climate gas, dimethyl sulphide, in the Southern Ocean. She joined BSC in April 2022 and is working in the Climate Services team on seasonal climate predictions.
+----
+==== Ángel Paes ====
+{{:working_groups:angelpaes.png?100|}} \\
+**Master student**\\
+**Interests:** Climate change, climate projections, renewable energy \\
+**Bio**: Ángel Paes studied Physics at Universidad de Valladolid and is currently doing a Master’s Degree in Meteorology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. As an internship, he joined BSC to develop surface temperature indicators for the European Environment Agency (EEA).
+----
+==== Herve Petetin ====
+{{:working_groups:photo_herve_petetin.jpeg?100|}} \\
+**Postdoctoral Researcher**\\
+**STARS Fellow** \\
+**Interests:** air quality, aerosols, ozone, emissions, biomass burning, pollution long-range transport, pollution vertical distribution, trend analysis, boundary layer dynamics, machine learning.\\
+**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.
+----
+==== Jaume Ramon ====
+{{:working_groups:foto_jaume.jpg?100 |}} \\
+**Postdoctoral researcher** \\
+**Interests:** Reanalysis, climate services, climate prediction, wind speed variability, wind power forecasting, Numerical Weather Prediction, extreme events.
+**Bio:**  Jaume Ramon is a post-doctoral researcher at the Climate Services team in the Earth Sciences department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He has 5 years of experience in the field of seasonal forecasting. His PhD thesis, entitled 'High quality observations for improved seasonal predictions. Implications for the wind energy sector', focused on improving seasonal predictions for wind speed from the perspective of the observations. Among others, he has worked with techniques such has bias adjustment, forecast verification or statistical downscaling. All three first-author papers produced within the framework of his PhD thesis have been published in top ranked journals, achieving more than 200 citations (as per February 2023). He has been or is currently involved in several projects (INDECIS, S2S4E, HARMONIZE, IDAlert, FOCUS and E4WARNING). He is currently supervising two MSc students. \\
+PhD thesis: http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/185754 \\
+----
+==== Daniel Rodríguez ====
+{{:working_groups:dani2.png?100|}} \\
+**PhD Student** \\
+**Interests:** Air quality management, urban air chemistry, urban mobility, socio-economic factors of climate change.
+**Bio:** Daniel Rodriguez has a degree in chemical engineering by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), and a MSc in Air Quality Management by the University of Birmingham, in UK. He has done an intership as air quality technician at Barcelona Regional and worked in a environmental consultancy, Enitial (UK), as a field technician. He is currently doing a PhD at the BSC in the Earth System Services department about the coupling of microscopic traffic simulators with emission and air quality models in order to develop a tool able to assess and determine the impact of air quality and traffic restriction policies at Barcelona.
+----
+==== Balakrishnan Solaraju Murali ====
+{{:working_groups:pic_bala.jpg?100 |}} \\
+**PhD student**\\
+**Interests:** Climate prediction, Climate services and Forecast verification.\\
+**Bio**: Balakrishnan has a MSc. degree in Aerospace Mechanics and Avionics from ISAE Supaero, Toulouse and a B.Tech degree in Aerospace Engineering from SRM University, India. He is currently pursuing his PhD titled 'Prospects for decadal predictions in a Climate Service Context' in Earth Science Department at BSC. His research is focused on evaluating forecast quality and the predictability sources of Decadal climate prediction. During his PhD work, he will be involved in EU funded projects such as JRC-Decadal and EUCP.
+----
+==== Ilaria Vigo ====
+{{:working_groups:foto_ilaria_bio.jpeg?100|}} \\
+**Environmental Economist**\\
+**Interests:** Environmental Economics, Science Communication and Stakeholder Engagement for climate services.\\
+**Bio**: Ilaria Vigo holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from University of Pavia. She devoted part of her studies to the research on Environmental Economics. Ilaria has experience as Policy Adviser consulting in European Commission funded projects, for Governments and for private sector as well. Additionally, she worked as Research Assistant in Economics at Pompeu Fabra University.  In order to generate a social impact, Ilaria believes in the importance of communication and stakeholder engagement. She has experience in event management and communication activities. Finally, Ilaria is native Italian, fluent in English and Spanish, and intermediate in Portuguese.
+----
+==== Guillermo López ====
+{{:working_groups:guillermo_lopez.jpg?100 |}} \\
+**Master Student**\\
+**Interests:**  Renewable energies, climate services, modelling, wind power generation\\
+**Bio:** Guillermo López has a BSc in Physics from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and is doing a MSc in Energies and Fuels for the future at the same university. He joined BSC in December 2022 to do his Master's thesis and internship. Guillermo is currently working on the Tall Tower Dataset and winds at 100 metres, studying the variability and impact in the wind energy sector.
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 ==== Francesc Roura Adserias ====
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-**Junior Research Engineer** \\
+**Research Engineer** \\
-[[https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescroura/|Personal page]]\\
+[[https://franra9.github.io/|Personal page]]\\
-**Interests:** Seasonal forecasting, cryosphere, renewable energy, mountain meteorology, reanalysis.
+**Interests:** Energy (wind & solar) climate services | Seasonal & subseasonal | Computational workflows.
-**Bio:** Francesc Roura holds a BSc in physics from the University of Barcelona since Jan 2020. He joined BSC on July 2019 thanks to the 1st BSC Undergraduate Summer Internship. He has worked as an intern at the at the Catalan Met Office (MeteoCat), at the remote sensing unit. He collaborated with the GAMA UB team (Meteorological Hazards Analysis Team). He has also collaborated with the physics department of the University of Girona in cloud coverage and with the Instituto de Astronomía de las islas Canarias (IAC), in the STARS4ALL UE project about light pollution.
+**Bio:** Francesc Roura holds a MSc in atmospheric sciences from the university of Innsbruck (2022) and a BSc in physics from the University of Barcelona (2020). He joined BSC in July 2019 to get involved with the Decathlon project, about S2S services for the retail sector. Since 2023 he has been involved in the development of the Climate Adaptation Digital twin from the DestinE initiative. The main roles in the projects are: development of the energy-indicators use case, as well as workflow development.
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