Who we are

(alphabetical order)

Research Engineer

Interests: Air quality, modeling, environmental and health impact

Bio: Ada Barrantes is a research engineer in the Air Quality Services team. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics and a Master's degree in Meteorology, both from the University of Barcelona (UB). She started at BSC to do the Master's thesis and internship, analyzing the role of gap-filling observational data in air quality data fusion methods: a case study with CALIOPE PM2.5. Nowadays, her work encompasses a range of tasks within the team, including programming, performing diagnostic analyses, data fusion, and organizing outreach activities.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Interests: climatology, sustainability, One Health, quality control of climatological datasets, reanalysis, seasonal forecast verification, downscaling.

Bio: Alba Llabrés holds a BSc in Physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and a MSc in Meteorology from the University of Barcelona (UB). She obtained a PhD in Physics (UB) in January 2020; her Doctoral Thesis targeted the obtainment of maximum expected precipitation and Intensity - Duration - Frequency relationships in Catalonia with a monofractal downscaling methodology but it also focused on quality control methodologies of observational datasets. Alba joined BSC in August 2020 to work on the Evaluation and Quality Control of the Copernicus Climate Data Store datasets (Reanalysis and Seasonal Forecasts). In February 2022 she joined the Climate Services team to work on the verification and post-processing of Seasonal Forecasts for Global Health Resilience projects. Alba is currently one of the coordinators of the Climate Services team (since September 2023) and an AI4S fellow (since December 2024).

Group leader: Earth System Services

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.

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.

PhD candidate

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.

Researcher
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Interests: air quality, urbanism, social sciences, vulnerability

Bio: Physicist (Complutense University of Madrid, UCM, 2021) with a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB, 2023). He is currently a PhD researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and ICTA-UAB, where he combines his expertise in post-processing air quality modeling (BSC,2021-2024) with the analysis of urban, social, and demographic dynamics. His research focuses on vulnerability to air pollution in the city of Barcelona.

PhD student
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Interests: Urban air quality, statistical downscaling, uncertainty quantification, indoor air quality, air pollution exposure, environmental justice.

Bio: Andreu Julian Izquierdo is a physicist from the Universitat de València (UV) and holds an MSc in Meteorology from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). He began his research career during his studies at the Centro de Estudios Medioambientales del Mediterráneo (CEAM) and developed his Master’s thesis in the Air Quality Services team at BSC, where he focused on indoor air quality studies in Barcelona. His PhD focuses on developing machine learning models to downscale regional air quality outputs to high-resolution estimates over Catalonia. He studies dynamic exposure, including indoor environments, to air pollutants and their potential health effects, aiming to provide insights for environmental management and public health.

Science communication

Interests: Climate change, air quality, zero waste, clean energy

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.

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.

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Product Designer

Interests: User interface design, User experience research, Innovation. User experience in earth science

Bio: Antonia holds a BA Degree in Economy of University of Cyprus. She gratuated in Information System Management in the university of Lisbon in 2016. Though her background is different, in 2017 she joined IBM and she pursued a career as digital product designer. Her efforts have been mostly focused on digital product consultancy, User Experience and User Interface Design mainly on public services before and during BSC. She currently leads whole design process of public scientific digital products while implementing Innovation and Design Thinking methodologies. Her latest work has been involved in EU-funded projects, projects and public entity contracts with AEMET across the Earth System Services group at the BSC.

Senior Advisor

Bio: Dr. Asun Lera St.Clair, philosopher and sociologist, is Director of the Digital Assurance Program in DNV Group Research and Development and Senior Advisor for the Earth Services Unit of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She has over 25 years of experience with designing and directing interdisciplinary user-driven and solutions-oriented research for global challenges in the interface between sustainable development and climate change, and more recently on the factors that drive trust in AI and leveraging digital technologies for sustainable development. Her work has focused on science-policy-society interactions, identification of user needs, ethical perspectives, and on public and private governance (with a focus on the role of standards, recommended practices and the provision of assurance). She has experience leading large projects dedicated to co-design and co-production with a variety of users from policy makers, to vulnerable communities and private sector actors. Asun has full professor qualifications and long experience in teaching and design of study programs. She serves in the boards international, multilateral and intergovernmental organizations, including the Horizon Europe Mission Board for Climate Change Adaptation and Societal Transformations (leading of the Citizen Engagement work of the Mission), and the Sustainability in the Digital Age Initiative of Future Earth. St.Clair was Lead author for IPCC Fifth Assessment Report WG2. https://www.linkedin.com/in/asuncion-lera-st-clair-a20b4738/

Postdoctoral researcher

Interests: Climate prediction, Climate services, Weather regimes, Forecast quality assessment, Climate extremes, Software development.

Bio: Carlos Delgado-Torres holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona, as well as a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Meteorology and Geophysics from the Complutense University of Madrid. During his studies, he completed internships at the Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET), the National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA), and eltiempo.es. He first joined the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) for his MSc thesis, focusing on the predictability of Euro-Atlantic weather regimes on interannual to decadal timescales. After completing his MSc, he worked in the private sector as a software developer before returning to BSC. For his PhD, Carlos conducted research in the Earth System Services and Climate Prediction groups at BSC, specialising in decadal climate prediction and predictability for climate services. As part of his doctoral work, he also visited the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at Columbia University. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher in the Climate Services Team at BSC working on seasonal-to-decadal predictions to support decision-making in different sectors.

Research Engineer
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Interests: Climate services, climate change impacts and climate change communication, Bayesian Network Analysis.

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.

Scientific Communication
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Interests: Climate services, climate change impacts, climate change communication.

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.

Researcher
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Interests: air quality, satellite, machine learning, downscaling

Bio: Cristina Campos García is a PhD student in air quality at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and the Universitat de Barcelona. Her research focuses on nitrogen dioxide (NO2) using Sentinel 5P satellite data, aiming to convert satellite column density into surface concentrations. Campos holds a BSC in Physics from the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), a Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (DEA) in experimental sciences from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), where she contributed to the NASA Sunrise project, and a Master in Mathematics for Financial Instruments from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

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.

Product Designer

Interests: User interface design, User experience research, Innovation.

Bio: Diana holds a BA Degree in Visual Information Design from Universidad de las Américas Puebla.She graduated on 2011. In 2017 she graduated from a MA on Direction of Interactive Projects from Elisava. In 2019 she studied a postgraduate course on Innovation and Design Thinking from BAU university. Her efforts have been mostly focused on User Interface Design on e-learning services in the private sector before joining the BSC. She currently designs and directs digital products while implementing Innovation and Design Thinking methodologies. Her latest work has been involved in EU-funded projects, C3S projects and public entity contracts with AEMET across the Earth System Services group at the BSC. Her fields of interest are the whole life-cycle of digital products, from the user experience research to the user testing of implemented products.

PhD student

Interests: climate variability, climate change, extreme events, climate dynamics, seasonal forecast.

Bio: Diego Campos is a Meteorologist (BS) from the University of Valparaíso, Chile, and holds an MSc in atmospheric sciences from the University of Chile, Chile. He also holds a Diploma in Science Communication from the University of Chile. He is currently a PhD candidate in the physics program at the University of Barcelona, Spain. At the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, he is a first-stage researcher studying the role of climate change in extreme weather and climate events in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

Social Scientist
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Interests: knowledge coproduction, Global North-South dynamics and climate justice.

Bio: Dragana is a senior environmental social scientist and co-leader of the Knowledge Integration Team. Since 2016, she has been advancing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches at the department to strengthen climate knowledge and support the coproduction of climate services. She has coordinated coproduction activities in several European projects and more recently have served as Principal Investigator in the H2020 projects FOCUS-Africa and nextGEMS, as well as a co-coordinator of the Horizon Europe project Impetus4Change. Dragana is also a member of the Scientific Steering Group for the WCRP's Regional Information for Society (RIfS) core project and the Strategic Advisory Board of the EC's Destination Earth initiative. Dragana holds a PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, a MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford, and a BSc in Ecology from the Belgrade University.

Technical Researcher

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.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Interests: Statistical downscaling and bias correction, subseasonal-to-seasonal climate prediction, extreme events, hydrometeorology.

Bio: Eren has expertise in atmospheric and hydrologic modeling, with a particular interest in extreme precipitation, heatwaves, and hydrometeorological variability. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the Middle East Technical University (Turkey, 2022). During his doctoral studies, he investigated short-term extreme precipitation events and long-term hydrologic dynamics through dynamical downscaling experiments. After completing his PhD, he joined the Climate Services team within the Earth System Services group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where he develops and applies statistical downscaling and bias correction methodologies for (sub)seasonal climate predictions. His current work involves downscaling various climate variables and indicators and assessing the added value from downscaling across multiple temporal scales.

Social Scientist
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Interests: participatory methods in climate services development and methodologies for user engagement in the area of climate/environmental policy and governance.

Bio: Eulàlia conducted a Phd in European environmental policy at the University of Freiburg and holds a double-degree MSc with a focus on research methods for the social sciences from the Pompeu Fabra University and the University of Konstanz. Her background is of a political scientist in her BA degree. Complementary to her studies she has gained working experience in the field of studies for EU Institutions in several EU-funded projets. She has worked closely with stakeholders, from resource managers to policy-makers at several governance levels, especially in the fiel of forest and water policy. The aim of these collaborations was to improve the design of policies to allocate both social and ecological considerations in the long-term. Eulàlia currently works on the developmet of knowledge co-production and user engagement activities in the Next-GEMS project.

Postdoctoral Researcher
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Interests: citizen science, participatory methods, environmental epidemiology

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.

Air-Quality Researcher-PhD
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Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Data science, Artificial Intelligence.

Bio: Gabriel Beltrami has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), General Engineering by Central School of Lyon (ECL) and a Master in Fluid Mechanics from ECL. Currently working in modeling pollutant concentration at very fine resolution in Barcelona, motivated by complex CFD problems and AI-based emulators methodology.

Postdoctoral Researcher STARS Fellow

Interests: urban air quality modelling, uncertainty quantification (UQ), data assimilation (DA).

Bio: Jan’s research focuses on urban air quality modelling with emphasis in uncertainty quantification and data assimilation. He has expertise in the numerical computation of turbulent flows and thermal radiation transport. Jan holds a Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain, 2013). He obtained a MSc. degree in numerical heat transfer and fluid flow by the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil, 2015). After receiving his joint-PhD degree in mechanical engineering from both the Universidade Estadual de Campinas and the École Centrale Paris (France, 2019), he collaborated with L’École Polytechnique (France, 2020) as a postdoctoral researcher working on Bayesian inference and uncertainty quantification on reduced chemical schemes. Jan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Fluid Mechanics Department at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), a position he has held since 2023. He also leads the Air Quality Services team within ESS.

Master Student

Interests: Renewable energies, climate services, modelling, downscalling, urban pollution, scientific dissemination

Bio: Javier Corvillo has a BSc in Physics and a MSc in Meteorology and Geophysics from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He joined BSC in February 2023 to do his Master's thesis and internship on statistical downscaling over Brazil and Barcelona as part of the Harmonize project, then continued his ongoing PhD thesis on the impacts of climate change in vector-borne related diseases. Aside from his university work, he's also taken part in numerous sustainability projects and initiatives regarding scientific dissemination to the general public about the current policy issues in regards to the overall state of climate studies

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Interests: Fluid dynamics, geophysical flows, climate dynamics, software engineering, climate services, climate change impacts and climate change communication.

Bio: Kat holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Hons) from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. After a period working as a Civil Engineer she started her PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research was focused on stratified fluids, in particular internal gravity waves and their associated instability mechanisms. This work generated a broader interest in geophysical flows. In 2022 Kat moved the BSC as a postdoc where she works on the Destination Earth project. She started working on the implementation of statistical data streaming algorithms to help manage the vast quantities of data being generated from the climate models. She is now focused on climate science communication and quantifying the impacts of high-resolution climate modelling.

Product Designer

Interests: User experience research, User interface design and prototyping

Bio: Kelsey has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Photography and Social Change from the University of Southern California. While there, she worked at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles where she worked on city-wide citizen science projects with the Entomology and Crustacea departments. She also has a certificate in User Experience and Interface Design through AllWomen and is experienced in designing and prototyping in Figma. Her experience previous to BSC was in web design and user research for mobile apps. Currently she is working on the development of products like forecast dashboards, community platforms for researchers, and narrative-style websites for ESS projects.

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Interests: Climate prediction & attribution, statistics, HPC, climate services

Bio: Lluís Palma is a PhD student at the Earth Sciences department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) under the supervision of Dr. Markus Donat and Dr. Albert Soret. With a background in aerospace engineering (BSc, UPC 2018) and meteorology (MSc, UB 2022), he joined BSC in 2018 as a Junior Research Engineer before starting his PhD in 2022. His work focuses on applying machine learning to understand and predict interannual climate dynamics. He has extensive experience with subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) predictions, assessing their performance, correcting biases, and improving them using machine learning techniques. This experience has been developed through several H2020 projects, such as S2S4E or Vitigeoss, ESA-funded projects like AI4Drought or challenges like the WMO 2022 S2S-AI Challenge, where his team ranked second.

Research Engineer
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Interests: Software Engineering, Software Quality, Agile methodologies, User Experience, Data Management, Data Mining, Machine Learning and Python.

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.

Knowledge integration for Earth System Services
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Interests: knowledge integration, science communication, engagement, inclusiveness, climate services, ecosystem services

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.

Recognised Researcher

Interests: climate projections, extreme events, statistical downscaling, atmospheric circulation, climate attribution.

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.

Junior Research Engineer

Interests: air quality modelling and management

Bio: Physicist and master's degree in Meteorology. He has work as a technician in the air quality service of Catalonia. From May 2025, he is working as Junior Research Engineer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where he is studying the air quality urban modelling system Caliope Urban and how to extend it to other cities and pollutants.

Position: Postdoctoral researcher
Interests: Climate Services, Extreme Events, Climate Indicators, Forecast verification
Contact: nuria.perez@bsc.es - LinkedIn
Short bio: Dr Núria Pérez-Zanón is a postdoctoral researcher specialising in climate variability and prediction. With a background in Physics and Meteorology from the University of Barcelona, she obtained her PhD from Rovira i Virgili University in 2017, exploring climate change in the central Pyrenees through instrumental and palaeoclimate data. Her work combines data quality control, homogenisation, and advanced time-series analysis to better understand past and present climate variability. Following a research stay at LOCEAN in Paris, she joined the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where she develops tools for climate forecast post-processing and contributes to sub-seasonal to decadal climate services within the CERISE project. Núria has published extensively in international journals and received the Eduard Fontserè Award for her research on heatwave-related mortality in Barcelona. She currently holds an AI4S fellowship.

Postdoctoral Researcher
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Interests: Climate services, climate dynamics, teleconnections, climate change impacts and climate change communication.

Bio: Dr Paloma Trascasa-Castro completed her BSc in Environmental Science at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and looked at how the North Atlantic Oscillation influences air pollution episodes in Madrid during the winter months. She did a MRes in Climate and Atmospheric Science at the University of Leeds, and for her her MRes thesis she explored the European climate response to El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) via the stratosphere. She then worked for a year as a research assistant using PDRMIP (precipitation-driver response model intercomparison project) looking at how black carbon and CO2 affect extreme precipitation over Africa.
In 2023 got a PhD with her thesis entitled “Modulation of El Niño-Southern Oscillation and its impacts by the mean climate state” at the University of Leeds in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, looking at how the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability affects ENSO by changing the atmosphere-ocean feedback processes in the tropical Pacific Ocean and how the impacts of strong El Niño events will be in the future. During her PhD she used and run pacemaker simulations.
At the moment, Paloma is a postdoctoral researcher at the the Climate Services Team of ESS, working on providing subseasonal and seasonal forecast for the energy (BOREAS) and agricultural sectors. She's also working in the project Impetus4Change, assisting the Barcelona Demonstrator in bridging climate data with public understanding and action for adaptation.
Her main interests are climate dynamics, predictability, S2S predictions and the interface between climate data and stakeholder engagement.

Computational Social Scientist
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Interests: climate change, social data management, computational social sciences, data FAIRification, knowledge integration, text analysis, social impact of climate services, social justice, interdisciplinary research.

Bio: Paula Checchia has a double degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Barcelona. Motivated by a strong interest in the intersection between data and social issues, she oriented her academic work toward understanding social phenomena through quantitative and computational approaches. She joined the Earth System Services group at BSC as part of the Knowledge Integration team, where she contributes to the integration of social sciences within climate research. Her work focuses on developing strategies for the management and structuring of social data, such as interviews, surveys, and qualitative datasets, to ensure they are centralized, FAIR, and secure. In parallel, she is implementing analytical tools, such as RAG systems, to enable more efficient exploration and analysis of these datasets and to extract meaningful insights that support evidence-based climate services.

Master Student
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.
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.

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Social Scientist
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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.

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.

Associate Professor, University of Barcelona
Affiliated Researcher, BSC-CNS
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Interests: sub-seasonal to decadal climate prediction; extreme hydrometeorological events; user-oriented climate services; and the communication of climate information value

Bio: Dr Raül Marcos Matamoros is an Associate Professor of Applied Physics (Meteorology and Climatology) at the University of Barcelona (UB) and Affiliated Researcher in the Earth System Services group. He holds a Master’s degree in Meteorology and an international PhD in Physics from UB, funded by an FPU fellowship; his doctoral thesis, entitled “Improvement of seasonal forecasting techniques applied to water resources and forest fires”, focused on the evaluation and post-processing of seasonal prediction systems for water resources management and wildfire risk. Between 2016 and 2021 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher and Juan de la Cierva fellow in the Earth Sciences Department at BSC, participating in several national and European projects on climate prediction and services (i.e. RESILIENCE, VISCA, MEDGOLD, FOCUS-AFRICA…). His current research focuses on improving seasonal prediction systems, analysing hydrometeorological extremes (including floods, droughts and forest-fire danger) and co-developing climate services for agriculture (i.e. viticulture) and public agencies responsible for hydrometeorological risk management.

Recognised researcher

Interests: Coproduction, Climate and Air quality services, Stakeholder engagement, Urban
Contact: samuel.pickard@bsc.es - LinkedIn

Bio: Sam is a researcher/practitioner in the Earth Systems Services Knowledge Integration Team. He works on the generation of actionable climate and air quality information and trying to better understand how science can be translated into useful and usable knowledge. His interests also include the roles and power held by different climate services actors, and how these dynamics impact the identification of vulnerability and the realisation of climate justice. He holds masters degrees in engineering, climate technology, and political ecology, and a PhD in engineering and innovation systems. Specific work themes include (urban) vulnerability to heat and air pollution (Impetus4Change, UrbanAIR), and citizen engagement and co-production for climate solutions (Adaptation ÀGORA).

PhD Candidate

Interests: Climate modelling, Decadal predictions, Energy sector, Climate services

Bio: Sara Moreno holds a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Meteorology, both from Universitat de Barcelona. She started her PhD in January 2024 at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, focusing on the application of decadal climate predictions to the energy sector. Sara is part of the Climate Services team and collaborates in different projects, including BOREAS, ASPECT, and ICEBERG, contributing to the development of climate indicators and tools that transform model outputs into actionable information for decision-making.

Sara Octenjak

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: 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.

Researcher
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Interests: climate services, standards, quality control and assurance, artificial intelligence, large language models

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.

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Atmospheric Composition Group
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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 (SDS-WAS) Regional Center for Northern Africa, Middle East and Europe, and the Barcelona Dust Forecast Center (BDFC), hosted in BSC. She also participates in international projects like the International Cooperative on Aerosol Prediction (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.

Journalist and Communications Manager
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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.

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.

Master Student
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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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

(User engagement expert)
Interests: Research to end user interface for wind, solar and hydro energy forecasting from one month to several years.

(Post-doc)
Interests: Research to end user interface for wind power. Wind and temperature variability over Europe, drivers and ability of seasonal forecast systems to reproduce it.

(Master Student)
Mail: basileguth@tutanuta.com
Interests: Climate prediction, climate variability, modelling, wind power, wind droughts

(Master Student-Internship) Personal page
Interests: technology and knowledge transfer. Connections between the researches and the people who could take profits of them. Information and newspaper articles to better know the technological field..

(Postdoctoral researcher) Interests: Climate model diagnostics and climate modeling, Multi-model ensemble seasonal prediction and predictability, Climate prediction and variability of the monsoon system, Large scale climate variations and variability, Forecast verification

(Developer) Personal page
Interests:Software Libre, GNU Emacs, Web Development, e-learning, Social Movements

(Master internship and pre-doctoral contract)
Interests: climate prediction, forecast verification, statistical modelling, machine learning applications in climate science

(Postdoctoral Researcher*) Personal page
Interests: emissions, air quality assessment, meteorology and pollutant dispersion modelling, urban environment

(Earth Sciences Web Developer - Researcher Engineer) Personal website ResearchGate profile

Interests: Web accessibility, Usability, User experience (UX), Human factors, User-Centered Design (UCD), Web development, Environmental sustainability, Earth system services.

Science communication and User-engagement

Interests: Science communication and Outreach. Development of creative solutions relevant to stakeholders. Co-creation and user-engagement.

Bio: Dr. Martí Badal received his PhD in molecular genetics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and started a professional research career. After a decade at several biomedical institutes in the Barcelona area, he moved towards Science Communication with a Master's degree at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. To strengthen his communication's profile, he is currently enrolled in a second Master's degree on Corporate Communication at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Dr. Badal has extensive experience in science dissemination methodologies and teaching. His role at Earth System Services (ESS-BSC) is to engage with professional profiles, mainly from the energy sector, to co-design long range forecast tools ready to be used in their companies' decision making.

User Experience Developer
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Interests: User Experience, Data Analysis, Data Science, Web Development, CMS Systems, Photography, Video Editing.

Bio: Maria Laustsen holds a BA degree in Web Development from Zealand Institute of Business and Technology in Denmark. She spend the last 3.5 years in London studying computer science courses and working as front-end developer / UX developer, both as contractor and permanent. Before getting into IT, she has a background in broadcasting where she used to work as ENG photographer and editor for 8 years. Besides Spain she has lived and worked in Australia, Canada, USA, and United Kingdom.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Interests: (1) assessing applicability of seasonal forecasts in different sectors (agriculture, forestry, water etc.), (2) projecting climate change impacts on different sectors and attributing impacts to climate, and (3) using process-based crop models for crop yield prediction and management optimization.

Bio: Dr. Prakash Kumar Jha holds a PhD in Science and management of Climate Change from the University of Venice Ca’Foscari, Italy and a MSc in Climate Change adaptation from University of the Sunshine Coast Australia. His PhD thesis assessed applicability of seasonal forecasts from state-of-the-art Seasonal Prediction Systems in a process-based crop model for rice yield prediction and optimization of inputs such as fertilizer and plantation date. He worked as a Postdoc researcher in CMCC Bologna, where he was involved in a study to identify impact of climate variability and change on Hazelnut (Corylus avellane) production and land suitability for South-East Australia and Turkey. Prakash has a BSc degree in forest science from Nepal and has 10 years of experience (facilitation and research) in the areas of community forestry, REDD+ and sustainable forest management in the context of developing countries. Currently, Prakash is working at BSC in the MEDGOLD project. Personal page
Interests: User-engagement for climate and atmospheric services in different sectors (Renewable energies, Agriculture and food security, insurance, urban development and smartcities). Science communication support to disseminate research to the end user. Research and development of User Interface Platforms for climate services (e.g. Project Ukko).

PhD Student
Interests: urban air quality modelling, road transport emissions, urban wind dynamics, decision making

Bio: Jaime Benavides has a Msc. degree in Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems with emphasis on Data Mining and a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering both from University of Granada. Currently, he is doing a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Oriol Jorba, Dr. Albert Soret and Dr. Marc Guevara dealing with the Development and Evaluation of a street scale air quality modelling system over Barcelona with the Atmospheric Composition Group at BSC. Once the modelling system will be implemented he plans to apply it to analyse the impact of air quality measures to improve air quality in Barcelona in collaboration with other members of the Services Group at BSC.

Project Dissemination Officer

Interests: Ecological and socio-economic impacts of climate and air quality, tangible services and solutions for the public and the variety of societal sectors impacted.

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.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Interests: Impacts of climate and weather on natural hazards and on socio-economic sectors such as water resources and agriculture.

Bio: Marco Turco received his Doctorate in Physics at the University of Barcelona in 2012. After he has developed his research at the CMCC (Italy), CNR (Italy), BSC (Spain), UB (Spain). Currently his is a postdoc researcher of the BSC thank to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant No. 740073 (CLIM4CROP project). Currently the focus of the candidate’s career is on making weather/climate information action-oriented, which he approached using multidisciplinary and multi-sectorial experiences on operational and research activities. He has been awarded for his research on climate change impacts, contribution to the analysis of precipitation extremes and active participation to MedCLIVAR activities.

Postdoctoral Researcher
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Interests: understanding, validating and forecasting the main modes of atmospheric variability at sub-seasonal and seasonal time scale, to develop tailored products for the energy sector.

Bio: Dr.Nicola Cortesi holds a degree in Atmospheric Physics at Milan University, a M.Sc. on Geographic Information Systems and interpolation techniques and an international Ph.D on modelling precipitation and temperature variability. As postdoctoral, he focused on statistical downscaling at CERFACS (MeteoFrance), on multi-model ensemble evaluation at IC3 (Barcelona) and on validation of S2S forecasts at BSC. He has a 10-years experience in handling, analysing, assessing and visualizing large global and regional climate simulations and a 5-years experience in verification of S2S forecasting systems. He contributed to various national and European projects (FORALPS, SPECS, COST, RESILIENCE, NEWA, SECTEUR, S2S4E).

Science communication specialist

Bio: Dr Isadora Christel Jiménez has a Master’s degree in Science communication (IDEC-UPF) and a PhD in offshore wind energy Impact assessment from the University of Barcelona. She has eight years of research experience in direct contact with stakeholders and five years working on science communication. As a science communication specialist of the Earth System Services group at BSC-ES she facilitates knowledge and technology transfer to end users. She is currently involved in EU funded projects in dissemination actions, user-engagement activities and the interaction with stakeholders to promote the integration of seasonal-to-decadal climate predictions in different economic sectors. She is Work Package leader within EUPORIAS and PRIMAVERA and she is also involved in user engagement and dissemination Work Packages in IMPREX, SPECS, ClimatEurope and CLIM4ENERGY.

Eleni Karnezi

Postdoctoral researcher - climate scientist
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Interests: Climate Services for Renewable Energy, S2S2D variability and predictability, wind resource assessment, wind power forecasting, numerical weather prediction, climate modelling, reanalyses, dynamical and statistical downscaling, bias adjustment techniques, probabilistic forecast verification, AI4ES, climate change projections, weather routing.

Bio: Llorenç Lledó holds a PhD in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona and a MSc in Meteorology from the same university. He also studied a BSc in Mathematics there. He has 5 years of experience in co-producing climate services for the energy sector and has specialized in post-processing S2S2D dynamical predictions to generate probabilistic products taylored for specific uses. He has expertise in probabilistic forecast verification, bias adjustment and calibration, downscaling techniques, all with an eye on the application of ML techniques. Before joining the academia, he worked for ten years in the private sector developing applications of numerical weather prediction for short-term wind power forecasting. He has participated in dozens of wind resource assessment studies for developing new wind farm projects. He has supervised MsC and PhD students and has received a “Personal Técnico de Apoyo” grant from the Spanish ministry of science. He has participated in many research projects such as H2020 S2S4E, FOCUS, VITIGEOSS, EUPORIAS, ERA4CS INDECIS and MEDSCOPE, Copernicus CLIM4ENERGY, Spanish Ministry RESILIENCE and other private contracts. Llorenç Lledó holds a BSc in Mathematics and a MSc in Meteorology. On his free time, Llorenç loves sailing, hiking, ski-touring and climbing.

Postdoctoral researcher
Interests: Sub-seasonal forecast quality assessment, land surface modelling, hydrology, vegetation modelling, climate-carbon cycle feedback.

Bio: Dr. Andrea Manrique-Suñén has a degree in Physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, with specialisation in atmospheric physics. She holds a PhD in Meteorology from the University of Reading, UK. She has expertise in land surface models, particularly on the role of the vegetation in the exchange of CO2 and energy fluxes. Her doctoral thesis is entitled: “The treatment of vegetation in land surface models: implications for predictions of land-atmosphere exchange” were the modelled effects of changes in environmental variables on the carbon and energy exchange are analysed. In BSC she is working with sub-seasonal climate predictions, ranging from one week to under a season. This work involves performing forecast quality assessments, bias adjustment methods as well as the operational implementation of sub-seasonal predictions. She is involved in the IMPREX project, performing a quality assessment of hydro-meteorological variables at sub-seasonal timescales. She also works for the S2S4E project (sub-seasonal to seasonal climate predictions for the energy sector) in the sub-seasonal timescale.

Research Engineer
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Interests: Energy (wind & solar) climate services | Seasonal & subseasonal | Computational workflows.

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.

Research Engineer

Interests: Study of the user engagement in order to improve the accessibility, efficiency and quality of the climate services. Promoting the use of climate and weather services by different sectors and stakeholders including academia, public sector, private companies or regular users. Numerical Weather Prediction and weather forecast.

Bio: Miguel Segura holds a BSc in Geography from the University of Valencia. He has a MSc in Meteorology from the University of Barcelona and a MSc in Geological Sciences from Brown University. He has a mixed background both in research and the private sector. He has been actively involved in soil erosion and land degradation projects in the Mediterranean, and member of the FuegoRed network. He worked as an intern at the Spanish Highest Research Council (CSIC), at the Catalan Met Office (MeteoCat) as well as at the University of Exeter, evaluating climate change impacts in the UK. Miguel worked as a researcher at Brown University, focusing on the Arctic region and climate teleconections. During the past few years, he moved to the Middle East to work for the private sector as a meteorologist working for a variety of clients, ranging from insurance, energy and transportation sectors to public organisations. He worked on operational weather forecast, implementation and development of new products, quality control and improvement of the user experience. He currently works as a Research Engineer in User Engagement at BSC. He coordinates the European Comission´s Project Copernicus C3S-512 , where he uses his combination of areas of expertise to improve the quality and efficiency of the European climate services, and increase the user´s engagement.

Computer Science and Mathematics Student
Interests: Applied mathematics, machine learning, deep learning, physics, climate change.

Bio: Sergi Bech Sala is a last year Mathematics and Computer Science student at the University of Barcelona. He will be working on a challenge to improve sub-seasonal to seasonal predictions using Artificial Intelligenge/Machine Learning.