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 ==== Ada Barrantes ====
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 **Research Engineer**\\
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 **Interests:** Air quality management. Research on climate services tailored to different sectors such as renewable energy, agriculture and food security.  Development of novel strategies to better communicate research results to the end users.
-**Bio:** Bio: Dr Albert Soret holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona). He is the head of the Earth System Services group at the Earth Sciences Department of the BSC and an adjunct lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. The group hosts ~45 research engineers, physicists, social scientists, economists, communication experts, and air quality/climate researchers who bring the latest developments in Earth sciences to society. He has 15 years of experience as a researcher in Air Quality and Climate. His expertise includes atmospheric emissions, meteorological and air quality modelling, and climate services. His research facilitates technology transfer from local to national to international levels to advance sustainable development in key sectors such as urban development, infrastructure, energy, transport, health, agriculture, and water management. He is the principal investigator of the ASPECT project (EC-HE) and previously coordinated the S2S4E project (EC-H2020). He is the work package leader and principal investigator at BSC of different projects and contracts: e.g. Clim4Energy (Copernicus), VISCA (H2020) and AI4DROUGHT (ESA). He coordinates the development of the air quality forecast system for Spain and Catalonia (CALIOPE Air Quality Forecast System). His work has resulted in 52 peer-reviewed publications, five chapters in books, proceedings, and reports, and more than 80 contributions to conferences/workshops/seminars. He is the supervisor of several postdocs and five PhD students.
+**Bio:** Bio: Dr Albert Soret is the Deputy Director of the Earth Sciences Department at the BSC and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He founded the Earth System Services group within the Department, which comprises approximately 50 research engineers, physicists, social scientists, economists, communication experts, and air quality and climate researchers who bring the latest developments in Earth sciences to society.
+He has 20 years of research experience in air quality and climate. His expertise includes atmospheric emissions, meteorological and air quality modelling, and climate services. His research facilitates technology transfer from the local to the national and international levels to advance sustainable development in key sectors such as urban development, infrastructure, energy, transport, health, agriculture, and water management.
+He is the Principal Investigator of the ASPECT project (EC-HE), the C3S2_412bis_Lot1 contract, and the BOREAS project (National Project), and previously coordinated the S2S4E project (EC-H2020). He is also the Work Package Leader and Principal Investigator at BSC for several projects and contracts, including Clim4Energy (Copernicus), VISCA (H2020), and AI4DROUGHT (ESA). He coordinates the development of the air quality forecasting system for Spain and Catalonia (CALIOPE Air Quality Forecasting System).
+His work has resulted in 72 peer-reviewed publications, six book chapters, conference proceedings, and reports, as well as more than 100 contributions to conferences, workshops, and seminars. He supervises several postdoctoral researchers and five PhD students.
-==== Alberto Bojaly Clua ====
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-**Master’s Intern** \\
-**Interests:** Climate services, heat waves, seasonal prediction \\
-**Bio:**
-Alberto Bojaly is a Master’s intern at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), where he is completing his studies in Environmental Science and Engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He holds a Bachelor's degree and is currently finishing his Master’s degree, with a strong focus on climate-related challenges and environmental risk assessment. He has gained professional experience working in an engineering firm (emch+Berger) in Switzerland, where he contributed to water management and infrastructure-related projects. He is currently involved in the MEDEWSA Project, focusing on heatwave analysis and its implications for climate services and seasonal prediction. His interests lie at the intersection of climate science, extreme events, and decision-support tools for climate adaptation.
 ==== Aleksander Lacima Nadolnik ====
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 **Interests:** climatology, climate services, S2S2I forecasts, climate projections, km-scale modelling, process-based evaluation, climate dynamics & variability.\\
-**Bio:** Aleks Lacima holds a BSc in Physics, with a mention in Fundamental Physics, from the University of Barcelona (UB) and a MSc in Meteorology also from UB. Aleks joined BSC in June 2021 as a MSc student and has since then worked in several projects within the ESS group, including EARLY-ADAPT, Destination Earth (DestinE), GLORIA, nextGEMS and I4C. In September 2022 he joined the Climate Services Team (CST) within ESS, where he has worked extensively in the Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin (ClimateDT) of the DestinE initiative, including the development of the Urban and Energy use cases and the post-processing and validation of km-scale climate projections. Since November 2024, he is conducting a PhD in CST, under the supervision of Dr. Verónica Torralba and Dr. Raül Marcos, on the improvement of climate predictions (S2S) across time scales from a process-based perspective, while also being involved in other activities, projects and developments within CST.
+**Bio:** Aleks Lacima holds a BSc in Physics, with a mention in Fundamental Physics, from the University of Barcelona (UB) and a MSc in Meteorology also from UB. Aleks joined BSC in June 2021 as a MSc student and has since then worked in several projects within the ESS group, including EARLY-ADAPT, Destination Earth (DestinE), GLORIA, nextGEMS and I4C. In September 2022 he joined the Climate Services Team (CST) within ESS, where he has worked extensively in the Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin (ClimateDT) of the DestinE initiative, including the development of the Urban and Energy use cases and the post-processing and validation of km-scale climate projections. At CST, he’s also the main responsible for the development of the Kuwait S2S operational.  Since November 2024, he is conducting a PhD in CST, under the supervision of Dr. Verónica Torralba and Dr. Raül Marcos, on the improvement of climate predictions (S2S) across time scales from a process-based perspective, while also being involved in other activities, projects and developments within CST.
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 **Bio**: Andria Nicodemou holds a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Bath (UK) and a Master of Research in Earth System Science from the University of Bristol (UK). She has worked in science publishing in Cambridge and London for five years, and later as a freelance science editor and writer based in Barcelona. She has experience working in journals and papers in several fields, including environmental science, geoscience, chemistry, biomedical and pharmaceutical research. She also has experience in community engagement projects to raise environmental awareness in London and Barcelona. Andria has joined the knowledge transfer team of the Earth System Services group, and will be working on projects including EVIDENCECity, 4C and S2S4E.
-==== Anindita Patra ====
-{{https://earth.bsc.es/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=research_groups_and_staff:aninditapatra.jpg?200 |}} \\
-**Climate and health Researcher** \\
-**Interests:** climate data downscaling, statistical modeling, climate and health, Energy Meteorology.\\
-**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.
 ==== Antonia Frangeskou ====
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 ==== Asun Lera St.Clair ====
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 **Senior Advisor**\\
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 **Bio**: Carmen holds a double degree in Law, Business and Management from the University of Granada, Spain. After a period working in the FMCG sector she moved to the International Development sector working with NGOs in Latin America. She then started her Masters in International Affairs in Columbia University, in New York, and started working at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI). There, she deepened into the arena of adaptation and mitigation, developing climate services for agriculture, health, energy and risk management in Latin America, Asia and Africa. After 5 years of working experience co-developing climate services, she pursue her industrial PhD at the University of Bologna, Italy. She started working at BSC in January 2023, working in European projects.
+==== Christian Jané-Ippel ====
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+**Recognised Researcher** \\
+[[https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianjane/|LinkedIn]]\\
+**Interests:** Climate services for renewable energy, scientific software engineering, wind energy optimisation, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and data-driven methods.\\
+**Bio:** Dr. Christian Jané-Ippel works on the Destination Earth (DestinE) project, where he contributes to the development and scientific assessment of the Energy Indicators application within the Climate Adaptation Digital Twin. His current work focuses on developing wind and solar energy indicators, performing Uncertainty Quantification (UQ), and conducting scientific evaluations of climate outputs. He completed his PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Wind Energy Optimisation at Imperial College London. His doctoral research focused on the simulation and optimisation of onshore wind farms in complex terrain, coupling high-fidelity physics-based models (LES) with data-driven Bayesian optimisation to improve turbine layout performance, in collaboration with SSE Renewables. Prior to his PhD, Christian earned an MSc in Computational Methods for Aeronautics from Imperial College London and a BEng in Aerospace Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). At BSC, he bridges his background in HPC and software engineering to maintain robust, reproducible code documentation and engage directly with key institutional stakeholders, ensuring complex climate data translates into actionable insights for the renewable energy sector. \\
 ==== Clàudia Huertas Martínez ====
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+{{:working_groups:claudia_huertas.png?direct&100 |}}
 **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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+{{:working_groups:cristinacampos.jpeg?100}}\\
 **Researcher**\\
 [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristina-campos-garc%C3%ADa-0196b464/|LinkedIn]]\\
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 **Interests:** seasonal forecast verification, climate modelling, climate dynamics, public health, reanalysis.\\
-**Bio:** Dr Emily Ball holds an MMath in Mathematics from the University of Oxford. She obtained a PhD in Geography from the University of Bristol in October 2023; her PhD thesis investigated the dynamics of polar vortices and jets on Earth and Mars, using climate models and reanalyses to investigate these large-scale circulations. After her PhD, Emily became interested in climate impacts on public health, investigating the impacts of sea ice loss on temperature-related mortality. Emily joined BSC in November 2024 to work on the verification and post-processing of Seasonal Forecasts for Global Health Resilience projects.
+**Bio:** Emily holds an MMath in Mathematics from the University of Oxford. She obtained a PhD in Geography from the University of Bristol in October 2023; her PhD thesis investigated the dynamics of polar vortices and jets on Earth and Mars, using climate models and reanalyses to investigate these large-scale circulations. After her PhD, Emily became interested in climate impacts on public health, investigating the impacts of sea ice loss on temperature-related mortality. Emily joined BSC in November 2024 to work on the verification and post-processing of Seasonal Forecasts for Global Health Resilience projects.
 ==== Eren Duzenli ====
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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:** 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.
+**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’.
+\\
+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.
+==== Sara Octenjak ====
+{{{{:working_groups:linkedin_profile_pic_changed_background_-_centered.jpg?200|}} \\
+**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.
 ==== Verónica Torralba ====
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-**PhD student**\\
+**Postdoctoral researcher**\\
-**Interests**: Climate Services for Energy, Climate prediction, Climate variability, Bias adjustment, Statistical downscaling and Forecast verification.
+**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.
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 =====Old members and Collaborators=====
+==== Anindita Patra ====
+{{https://earth.bsc.es/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=research_groups_and_staff:aninditapatra.jpg?200 |}} \\
+**Climate and health Researcher** \\
+**Interests:** climate data downscaling, statistical modeling, climate and health, Energy Meteorology.\\
+**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.
+==== Alberto Bojaly Clua ====
+{{:working_groups:bojaly-alberto-2727_1.jpg?100|}}\\
+**Master’s Intern** \\
+**Interests:** Climate services, heat waves, seasonal prediction \\
+**Bio:**
+Alberto Bojaly is a Master’s intern at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), where he is completing his studies in Environmental Science and Engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He holds a Bachelor's degree and is currently finishing his Master’s degree, with a strong focus on climate-related challenges and environmental risk assessment. He has gained professional experience working in an engineering firm (emch+Berger) in Switzerland, where he contributed to water management and infrastructure-related projects. He is currently involved in the MEDEWSA Project, focusing on heatwave analysis and its implications for climate services and seasonal prediction. His interests lie at the intersection of climate science, extreme events, and decision-support tools for climate adaptation.
 ==== Sara Basart ====
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 ==== Francesc Roura Adserias ====
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+{{:research_groups_and_staff:dsc0104_01.jpg?100|}}\\
 **Research Engineer** \\
 [[https://franra9.github.io/|Personal page]]\\

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