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 ==== Asun Lera St.Clair ====
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 **Senior Advisor**\\
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 ==== Clàudia Huertas Martínez ====
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 **Scientific Communication** \\
 [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudiahuertasm/|Linkedin]]\\
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 **Bio**: Clàudia is a science communicator in the Knowledge Integration Team at the Earth Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in Spain. She holds degrees in Biology (Universitat de Barcelona) and Business Administration (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), as well as a postgraduate degree in Science Communication. With experience in both the private and public sectors, she has experience communicating science to the public through local television media. Her work at KIT focuses on bridging the gap between science and society through innovative communication methods and transdisciplinary collaboration, with a particular interest in the impacts of climate change on human health.
 ==== Cristina Campos García ====
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 **Researcher**\\
 [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristina-campos-garc%C3%ADa-0196b464/|LinkedIn]]\\
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 **Master Student**\\
-**Interests:**  Climate prediction, climate variability, modelling, wind power, aerodynamics\\
+**Interests:**  Climate prediction, climate variability, seamless climate predictions, process understanding\\
+**Bio:** Dr. Pep Cos graduated in 2019 with a degree in Aerospace Vehicle Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, after completing his final degree project at Linköping University (Sweden). Between 2019 and 2021, he studied for a Master's degree in Meteorology at the University of Barcelona. During this period, in 2020, he completed an internship at the Earth Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), where he subsequently continued working as a Research Engineer.
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+In October 2021, he began his doctoral studies in Physics at the University of Barcelona, conducting his research in the Earth System Services group of the Earth Sciences Department at the BSC. His pre-doctoral stage lasted until September 2025, when he obtained his PhD with a grade of Excellent Cum Laude with his thesis ‘Some considerations about the climate variability and change in the Mediterranean region’.
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+During his PhD, he actively participated in international conferences and workshops, and from September to December 2023 he undertook a research stay at the University of Buenos Aires, in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (DCAO). He is a member of the ESMValTool Scientific Development Team and has contributed to the development and dissemination of several software packages for climate data analysis.
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+==== Sara Octenjak ====
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+**Social Scientist**\\
+[[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-oct/|LinkedIn]]\\
+[[https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4247-7379|OrcID]]
+**Interests:** climate services, impact assessment, participatory methods, co-creation, climate change impacts, governance, international development \\
+**Bio:** Sara Octenjak is a researcher at the Knowledge Integration Team of ESS group, using participatory methods to co-produce climate services and to assess their impact. She investigates how climate information can be used to leverage adaptation in society, notably in energy and agriculture across Europe and Africa. With a Bachelor’s in Political Science and a Master's in International Energy from SciencesPo Paris, Sara contributes to European and Spanish projects such as FOCUS-Africa, OptimESM, TerraDT and BOREAS. She leads tasks on stakeholder engagement, impact assessment, and co-creation of climate services, guided by a commitment to equitable, inclusive practices that support a just ecological transition.
-**Bio:** Pep Cos has a bachelors degree in Aerospace Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.  Currently, he is doing a master degree in Meteorology at Universitat de Barcelona and it's internship is developing at BSC. He will be studying the impacts that future projections of climate change in the Mediterranean region could imply.
+==== Verónica Torralba ====
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+**Postdoctoral researcher**\\
+**Interests**: Climate Services for Energy and Agriculture, Climate prediction, Climate variability, Bias adjustment, Statistical downscaling and Forecast verification.
+**Bio**: Verónica Torralba studied Physics and a Master in Meteorology and Geophysics at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in Spain, where she acquired a background in climate sciences. She joined the Climate Forecasting Unit (CFU) at the Catalan Institute of Climate (IC3) in October 2013 where she worked on the adaptation of the existing tools in the CFU unit to create the necessary material for the development of climate services for the wind energy sector. After that, She joined the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center where She did a PhD thesis while she was involved in different European Projects (EUPORIAS, SPECS, NEWA, S2S4E) and national initiatives (RESILIENCE). The overall aim of my Ph.D. was the assessment of different statistical post-processing methods to produce high-quality and tailored seasonal forecasts for wind energy applications. In 2020, She joined the climate simulations and predictions group at the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) where she did a postdoc on the development of methods to enhance climate information for stakeholders in sectors such as insurance or renewable energy (hydropower), with a focus on the development of statistical methods such as machine learning and hybrid statistical-dynamical models that can be used to provide useful knowledge on extreme weather and climate events.
+In 2023, she returned to BSC for a new postdoctoral position focused on sub-seasonal and seasonal forecasting for climate services across different industrial sectors. In this role, she serve as co-leader of a work package in the ASPECT project and act as principal investigator, alongside Albert Soret, for the national project BOREAS. That same year, she was awarded a Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral fellowship funded by AGAUR, and in 2024, she received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for the SINFONIA project which aims to develop temporal merging methodologies that integrate sub-seasonal and seasonal predictions.
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 ==== Raül Marcos ====
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 ==== Sushovan Ghosh ====
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 **Postdoctoral Researcher, Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS)** \\
 **Earth Sciences Department – Climate Services Group** \\
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 **Interests:** Renewable energy resources; aerosol–cloud–radiation interactions; climate services for energy planning; and the communication of climate information for sustainable development
-**Bio:** Dr Sushovan Ghosh is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), where he contributes to the development and scientific assessment of the *Energy Indicators* (formerly *Energy Onshore*) application within the Climate Adaptation Digital Twin of the Destination Earth (DestinE) initiative. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, where his doctoral thesis, entitled *“Assessing the Impact of Air Pollution on Solar Energy Resources in India in Present and Future Climate”*, focused on quantifying aerosol-driven solar dimming and its implications for solar-energy potential. His research integrates ground-based observations, satellite data, and climate-model outputs to assess interactions between aerosols, clouds, radiation, and renewable-energy resources. His current work focuses on developing high-resolution global and regional wind and solar energy indicators, evaluating the performance of climate-digital-twin outputs, and supporting user-oriented, policy-relevant applications in the energy and climate-services sectors.
+**Bio:** Sushovan Ghosh is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), where he contributes to the development and scientific assessment of the Energy Indicators application within the Climate Adaptation Digital Twin of the Destination Earth (DestinE) initiative. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, where his doctoral thesis, entitled “Assessing the Impact of Air Pollution on Solar Energy Resources in India in Present and Future Climate”, focused on quantifying aerosol-driven solar dimming and its implications for solar-energy potential. His research integrates ground-based observations, satellite data, and climate-model outputs to assess interactions between aerosols, clouds, radiation, and renewable-energy resources. His current work focuses on developing high-resolution global and regional wind and solar energy indicators, evaluating the performance of climate-digital-twin outputs, and supporting user-oriented, policy-relevant applications in the energy and climate-services sectors.
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 **Bio**: Julia Isabella Cannata is a native of California whom has a Bachelor´s of Science in City and Regional Planning from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. She came to Barcelona in 2017 to further develop herself and has completed her Master´s in Territorial Planning and Environmental Management from the University of Barcelona. Throughout her studies, Julia has specialized in climate action planning, and has taken particular interest in analayzing the holistic effects of climate change to vulnerable socio-economic groups of people. To do so, she has worked on and published social vulnerability assessments to extreme heat for the County of San Luis Obispo in California and the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. Julia hopes to deliver comprehensive work with engaging communication strategies to motivate a variety of stakeholders in the climate and air quality realm and create sustainable solutions in society.
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-==== Verónica Torralba ====
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-**PhD student**\\
-**Interests**: Climate Services for Wind Energy, Climate prediction, Wind speed variability, Bias correction, Statistical downscaling and Forecast verification.
-**Bio**: Verónica Torralba studied Physics and a Master in Meteorology and Geophysics at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in Spain, where she acquired a background in climate sciences. She joined the Climate Forecasting Unit (CFU) at the Catalan Institute of
-Climate (IC3) in October 2013 where she worked in the adaptation of the existing tools in the
-CFU unit to create the necessary material for the development of climate services for the
-wind energy sector. After that, she joined the Earth Sciences Department at the BSC where she did a Ph.D. thesis while she was involved in different European Projects (EUPORIAS, SPECS, NEWA) and national initiatives (RESILIENCE). The overall aim of her PhD was the assessment of different statistical post-processing methods that are applied to improve the quality of the seasonal forecasts produced by seasonal prediction systems. Then, these improved predictions will be used in the development of tailored information for wind energy users. Currently she is a post-doc researcher working on the development of seasonal forecast products that can be used to improve operational climate services.
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