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 **Bio**: Dr Sara Basart (female) received a degree in Physics from the University of Barcelona (UB). She studied a Masters in Meteorology and Climatology a 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.  **Bio**: Dr Sara Basart (female) received a degree in Physics from the University of Barcelona (UB). She studied a Masters in Meteorology and Climatology a the University of Barcelona (UB). Dr Basart obtained her PhD degree in Engineering Environmental (Degree of European Doctor) at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in January 2012 while doing her research at different research centres (Centro de Investigación Atmosférica de Izaña, Spain, and  Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, France). Her main research background covers mineral dust modelling, air quality and aerosols. 
 At present, Dr Basart is a researcher in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She is the scientist in charge of the WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System ([[http://sds-was.aemet.es/|SDS-WAS]]) Regional Center for Northern Africa, Middle East and Europe, and the Barcelona Dust Forecast Center ([[http://dust.aemet.es/|BDFC]]), hosted in BSC. She also participates in international projects like the International Cooperative on Aerosol Prediction ([[http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/aerosol/icap.1135.php|ICAP]]) initiative and ACTRIS (ACTRIS and ACTRIS-2). She is leading the BSC participation in Copernicus (CAMS-84). She has authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and book chapters. At present, Dr Basart is a researcher in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She is the scientist in charge of the WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System ([[http://sds-was.aemet.es/|SDS-WAS]]) Regional Center for Northern Africa, Middle East and Europe, and the Barcelona Dust Forecast Center ([[http://dust.aemet.es/|BDFC]]), hosted in BSC. She also participates in international projects like the International Cooperative on Aerosol Prediction ([[http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/aerosol/icap.1135.php|ICAP]]) initiative and ACTRIS (ACTRIS and ACTRIS-2). She is leading the BSC participation in Copernicus (CAMS-84). She has authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and book chapters.
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-==== Sergi Bech ==== 
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-**Computer Science and Mathematics Student**\\ 
-**Interests:**  Applied mathematics, machine learning, deep learning, physics, climate change. \\ 
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-**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. 
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 **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.  **Bio:** Jose Luis Cánovas has a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Communication from the Universidad CEU UCH of Valencia and Postgraduate degrees in Digital Journalism from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Investigative Reporting from the Universitat Ramon Llull (URL) of Barcelona. With over 10 years of experience working in the media industry, international events and corporate communication, he has specialized in science, technology and health. As a science communication specialist of the Earth System Services group at BSC-ES he facilitates knowledge transfer to the media and society. 
  
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 +==== Paula Checchia Adell ====
 +{{:working_groups:paula_checchia.jpg?100|}} \\
 +**Computational Social Scientist**\\
 +[[https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-checchia-adell-44a9a3217|LinkedIn]]\\
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 +**Interests:** climate change, social impact derived from decision-making processes, social justice, knowledge transfer. \\
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 +**Bio:** Paula Checchia has a double degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Barcelona. Due to her interest in social issues, she did her two final degree thesis on this field. In this line and to better understand the global social context, she worked in different NGOs in Spain, Greece and Colombia. She joined the BSC Earth System Services group in May 2023 as a member of the Knowledge Integration team. She will be working on mapping the climate services initiatives located in Europe in the context of the Climateurope2 project. She will also be involved in the development of a strategy for the storage and structure of qualitative social data to propose standards and community-based good practices in order to do further social analysis.
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 **Bio:** Marina Conde received a degree in Informatics Engineering from Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 2012. She has working experience as a Software Engineer in the area of Business Intelligence Reports, among others. Her main role at the Earth System Services group (ESS-BSC) is to work on the creation and improvement of the operational services websites. \\ **Bio:** Marina Conde received a degree in Informatics Engineering from Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 2012. She has working experience as a Software Engineer in the area of Business Intelligence Reports, among others. Her main role at the Earth System Services group (ESS-BSC) is to work on the creation and improvement of the operational services websites. \\
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-==== Nicola Cortesi ==== 
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-**Postdoctoral Researcher** \\ 
-[[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicola_Cortesi2|Personal page]]\\ 
-**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. 
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-**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). 
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 ==== Carlos Delgado-Torres ==== ==== Carlos Delgado-Torres ====
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 **PhD student**\\ **PhD student**\\
  
-**Interests:** Climate prediction, Climate Services, Weather regimes, Software developmentArtificial IntelligenceNumerical weather prediction.+**Interests**Climate prediction, Climate services, Weather regimes, Forecast quality assessmentClimate extremesSoftware development.
  
-**Bio:** Carlos Delgado holds a BSc in Physics and a MSc in Meteorology and Geophysics from the Complutense University of Madrid. During his years at the university, he did internships at the Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) and eltiempo.es. He joined the BSC in June 2019 to do his Master's thesis on the predictability of Euro-Atlantic weather regimes on inter-annual to decadal timescales. After finishing the MSc, he was working as a software developer for some months in the private sector before coming back to the BSC. Carlos has joined the Earth System Services and Climate Prediction groups, and will be working on EUCP and Copernicus C3S projects while developing his PhD on decadal prediction and predictability for energy production.+**Bio:** Carlos Delgado holds a BSc in Physics and a MSc in Meteorology and Geophysics from the Complutense University of Madrid. During his years at the university, he did internships at the Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) and eltiempo.es. He joined the BSC in June 2019 to do his Master's thesis on the predictability of Euro-Atlantic weather regimes on inter-annual to decadal timescales. After finishing the MSc, he was working as a software developer for some months in the private sector before coming back to the BSC. Carlos has joined the Earth System Services and Climate Prediction groups to develop his PhD thesis on decadal climate prediction and predictability for climate services.
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-==== Isadora Jiménez ==== 
-{{:working_groups:members:ijimenez_bsc_picture.jpeg?100 |}} \\ 
-**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. +==== Alba Llabrés Brustenga ==== 
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 +**Postdoctoral Researcher** \\
  
-[[https://www.bsc.es/karnezi-eleni | Eleni Karnezi]]+**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.
  
-==== Llorenç Lledó Ponsati ==== 
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-**Post-doc researcher** \\ 
-[[https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloren%C3%A7-lled%C3%B3-ponsati-624b2aa1|Personal page]]\\ 
-**Interests:** Climate Services for Renewable Energy, S2S2D variability and predictability, Wind Resource Assessment, Wind Power Forecasting, Numerical Weather Prediction, Reanalysis, Dynamical and statistical downscaling, bias adjustment, probabilistic forecast verification, AI4ES, Climate change projections, Weather Routing. 
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-**Bio:** Llorenç Lledó holds a BSc in Mathematics and a MSc in Meteorology. During the last decade he has worked on applications of Numerical Weather Prediction to the industry. More specifically, during the last 7 years he has focused on applications for the wind industry, specialising on Wind Resource Assessment and Wind Power Forecasting. At BSC, his work focuses on the CLIM4ENERGY project, a C3S service prototype delivering seasonal predictions of wind and capacity factor for the energy sector. Llorenç is pursuing a PhD on physics at University of Barcelona. On his free time, Llorenç loves sailing and enjoying the wind from another perspective. 
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-==== Andrea Manrique-Suñén ==== 
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-**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.  
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 ==== Raül Marcos ==== ==== Raül Marcos ====
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 ==== Albert Martínez Botí ==== ==== Albert Martínez Botí ====
 {{:working_groups:Albert_Martinez.jpg?100|}} \\ {{:working_groups:Albert_Martinez.jpg?100|}} \\
-**Master Student**\\+**Junior Research Engineer**\\
 **Interests:**  Climate prediction, climate variability, modelling, numerical weather prediction, extreme events. \\ **Interests:**  Climate prediction, climate variability, modelling, numerical weather prediction, extreme events. \\
      
  
-**Bio:** Albert Martinez holds a BSc in physics from the University of Valencia. He's currently doing a master's degree in Meteorology at Universitat de Barcelona and an internship at BSC. He will be working on the project of seasonal and sub-seasonal forecasting for Decathlon.+**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 productsThe main project in which Albert is involved consists of a coproduction process in which climate services products addressed to the retail Decathlon company are developed in order to provide support and help in climate-sensitive decision-making. Albert is also working on the FOCUS AFRICA project, especially on the design of a vignette that will be used by the National Meteorological Services of SADC (South African Development Countries) as training material addressed to help them to fill some capacity gaps related to the processing and post-processing of seasonal climate data  
  
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 ==== Jan Mateu Armengol ==== ==== Jan Mateu Armengol ====
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 **Postdoctoral Researcher**  **Postdoctoral Researcher** 
 **STARS Fellow** \\ **STARS Fellow** \\
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 **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.  **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 joined the Atmospheric composition group, as well as the Earth System Services group to apply uncertainty quantification and data assimilation methodologies to urban air quality simulations. 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 joined the Atmospheric composition group, as well as the Earth System Services group to apply uncertainty quantification and data assimilation methodologies to urban air quality simulations.
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 +==== Nadia Milders ====
 +{{:working_groups:foto_nadia_milders.jpg?100 |}}
 +**Junior Research Engineer**\\
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 +**Interests:** Climate prediction, climate variability, modelling, climate change, oceanography.
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 +**Bio**: Nadia Milders has a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Maastricht University, Netherlands, and a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She did her master’s thesis project shared between BSC and Institut de Ciències del Mar, concerning the development of a remote sensing algorithm for the prediction of the climate gas, dimethyl sulphide, in the Southern Ocean. She joined BSC in April 2022 and is working in the Climate Services team on seasonal climate predictions.
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 +==== Ángel Paes ====
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 +**Master student**\\
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 +**Interests:** Climate change, climate projections, renewable energy \\
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 +**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).
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 +==== Núria Pérez-Zanón ====
 +{{:working_groups:nuria_perez.jpg?100 |}} \\
 +Position: Postdoctoral researcher\\
 +Interests: Climatology, Climate Services, Extreme Events, Climate Indicators\\
 +Contact: [[nuria.perez@bsc.es|nuria.perez@bsc.es]] - [[https://es.linkedin.com/in/núria-pérez-zanón-9364175b|LinkedIn]]\\
 +Short bio: Núria Pérez-Zanón is a postdoctoral researcher with a background in Physics and Meteorology (degrees from the University of Barcelona; UB). She obtained her PhD from Rovira i Virgili University (URV) in 2017 on Climate variability and Change detection in the central Pyrenees using instrumental and paleoclimate proxy data. This expertise includes quality control and homogenization methodologies for observed in-situ data, as well as, the methodologies to explore the relationship between natural proxies (tree-ring data and lake sediments) and observed climate, such as time series analysis and spectral analysis (e.g.: clustering, Principal Component Analysis and Wavelet analysis). During the thesis, one year and a half of research stay in LOCEAN (Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat) allowed to work in the reconstruction of past modes of variability. She is the author of 8 peer-reviewed articles in international journals. She was recognized with the Eduard Fontserè 2015 international award for the study of mortality due to heatwaves in the Barcelona metropolitan area. After more than 3 years in the BSC Computational Earth Science group developing tools for climate forecast post-processing, she is currently in the Climate Services group working in climate services for the agricultural sector. 
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 ==== Herve Petetin ==== ==== Herve Petetin ====
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 ==== Jaume Ramon ==== ==== Jaume Ramon ====
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-**PhD Student** \\+**Postdoctoral researcher** \\
  
 **Interests:** Reanalysis, climate services, climate prediction, wind speed variability, wind power forecasting, Numerical Weather Prediction, extreme events. **Interests:** Reanalysis, climate services, climate prediction, wind speed variability, wind power forecasting, Numerical Weather Prediction, extreme events.
  
-**Bio:**  Jaume Ramon received degree in Physics from the University of València in July 2016 and holds a Master's degree in Meteorology from the University of Barcelona since July 2017. He did a 6-month internship at the Spanish weather service (AEMET) where he had the opportunity to familiarize with numerical modelingIn his Master'thesis, he studied the wind farm parameterization of the WRF-ARW modelJaume joined the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in August 2017 and he has been working in two different European projects: S2S4E (H2020) and INDECIS (ERA4CS). He recently received an FPI fellowship to develop his Ph.D., which will be focused on improving seasonal predictions for wind power users. \\+**Bio:**  Jaume Ramon is 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 forecastingHis 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 observationsAmong 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. \\
  
-Master'thesis (in Catalan): http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/127779 \\+PhD thesis: http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/185754 \\
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 ==== Daniel Rodríguez ==== ==== Daniel Rodríguez ====
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 **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.   **Bio:** Daniel Rodriguez has a degree in chemical engineering by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), and a MSc in Air Quality Management by the University of Birmingham, in UK. He has done an intership as air quality technician at Barcelona Regional and worked in a environmental consultancy, Enitial (UK), as a field technician. He is currently doing a PhD at the BSC in the Earth System Services department about the coupling of microscopic traffic simulators with emission and air quality models in order to develop a tool able to assess and determine the impact of air quality and traffic restriction policies at Barcelona.  
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-==== Francesc Roura Adserias ==== 
-{{:working_groups:francesc_roura_adserias_foto.png?100|}} \\ 
-**Junior Research Engineer** \\ 
-[[https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescroura/|Personal page]]\\ 
-**Interests:** Seasonal forecasting, cryosphere, renewable energy, mountain meteorology, reanalysis. 
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-**Bio:** Francesc Roura holds a BSc in physics from the University of Barcelona since Jan 2020. He joined BSC on July 2019 thanks to the 1st BSC Undergraduate Summer Internship. He has worked as an intern at the at the Catalan Met Office (MeteoCat), at the remote sensing unit. He collaborated with the GAMA UB team (Meteorological Hazards Analysis Team). He has also collaborated with the physics department of the University of Girona in cloud coverage and with the Instituto de Astronomía de las islas Canarias (IAC), in the STARS4ALL UE project about light pollution.   
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-==== Miguel Segura ==== 
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-**Research Engineer**\\ 
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-**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. \\ 
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-**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. 
  
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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. **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:** DrAlbert 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. The group hosts ~24 research engineers, physicists, social scientists, economists, communication experts, and air quality/climate researchers who try to bring the latest developments in Earth sciences to the society. He is a postdoc researcher with 15 years of experience in the areas of Air Quality and Climate. His main expertise includes emission, meteorological and air quality modelling, and climate services. His research facilitates technology transfer from local and national to international levels to advance sustainable development in key sectors such as urban development, infrastructure, energy, transport, health, and agriculture and water management. He is the principal investigator of the S2S4E project (EC-H2020), a member of the External Advisory Board of Clim2Power (ERA4CS), and Work Package leader within Clim4Energy (Copernicus), VISCA (H2020) and MAGIC (Copernicus). Dr Soret is also involved in several EC-FP7 and H2020 projects, and CAMS contracts: NEWA, EUPORIAS, SPECS, IMPREX, PRIMAVERA, CAMS95 and APPRAISAL. He coordinated the development of an air quality forecast system for Southern Spain-Andalucia and the Canary Islands. Furthermore, he has participated in the development of the Spanish air quality-related CALIOPE system for the Spanish Ministry and the air quality forecast system for the Mexico City's Environment Secretary. His work has resulted in 22 peer-reviewed publications, five chapters in books, proceedings, and reports, and more than 50 contributions to conferences/workshops/seminars. He is the supervisor of several postdocs and three PhD students. +**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, agricultureand 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.
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 **Bio**: Dr. Marta Terrado has a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Barcelona and a Master's degree in Geographical Information Systems from the Polytechnic University of Catalunya. She has ten years of post-doctoral experience in water management, ecosystem services and climate services research, and has been involved in various national and EU funded projects on water scarcity and adaptation to climate change. As a science communication specialist in the Earth System Services group at BSC, she facilitates knowledge and technology transfer on climate services to users and the general society. She leads the communication, dissemination and user engagement actions in the H2020 projects APPLICATE (727862) and Copernicus Climate Change Service C3S_429 (Press Data Portal). She is currently involved in the dissemination tasks of the H2020 projects MED-GOLD (776467) and VitiGEOSS (869565), as well as the contract on seasonal hurricane predictions sponsored by the global reinsurer AXA (www.seasonalhurricanepredictions.org). **Bio**: Dr. Marta Terrado has a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Barcelona and a Master's degree in Geographical Information Systems from the Polytechnic University of Catalunya. She has ten years of post-doctoral experience in water management, ecosystem services and climate services research, and has been involved in various national and EU funded projects on water scarcity and adaptation to climate change. As a science communication specialist in the Earth System Services group at BSC, she facilitates knowledge and technology transfer on climate services to users and the general society. She leads the communication, dissemination and user engagement actions in the H2020 projects APPLICATE (727862) and Copernicus Climate Change Service C3S_429 (Press Data Portal). She is currently involved in the dissemination tasks of the H2020 projects MED-GOLD (776467) and VitiGEOSS (869565), as well as the contract on seasonal hurricane predictions sponsored by the global reinsurer AXA (www.seasonalhurricanepredictions.org).
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-**UX Designer**\\+**Product Designer**\\
  
 **Interests:** User interface design, User experience research, Innovation.\\ **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 +**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 BSCHer fields of interest are the whole life-cycle of digital products, from the user experience research to the user testing of implemented products. 
-from Elisava. In 2019 she studied a postgraduate course on Innovation and Design Thinking from BAU university. She has experience in digital projects, elearning, branding, illustration, photography, UX and UIShe believes in the importance of solving user problems by creating user centered interfaces that help to communicate information in an interesting and creative way.+
  
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 +==== Eulàlia Baulenas ====
 +{{https://earth.bsc.es/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=research_groups_and_staff:eulalia.jpg?100 |}}
 +**Social Scientist** \\
 +[[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eulalia-Baulenas-Serra|ResearchGate]]\\
 +
 +**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.
 +
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 +
 +==== Guillermo López ====
 +{{:working_groups:guillermo_lopez.jpg?100 |}} \\
 +
 +**Master Student**\\
 +
 +**Interests:**  Renewable energies, climate services, modelling, wind power generation\\
 +  
 +
 +**Bio:** Guillermo López has a BSc in Physics from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and is doing a MSc in Energies and Fuels for the future at the same university. He joined BSC in December 2022 to do his Master's thesis and internship. Guillermo is currently working on the Tall Tower Dataset and winds at 100 metres, studying the variability and impact in the wind energy sector.
 +
 +==== Javier Corvillo ====
 +{{:working_groups:javier-corvillo.jpg?100 |}} \\
 +
 +**Master Student**\\
 +
 +**Interests:**  Renewable energies, climate services, modelling, downscalling, urban pollution, scientific dissemination\\
 +  
 +
 +**Bio:** Javier Corvillo has a BSc in Physics from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and is doing a MSc in Meteorology and Geophysics at the same university. 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. 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
  
 =====Old members and Collaborators===== =====Old members and Collaborators=====
 +
 +
  
 ==== Melanie Davis ==== ==== Melanie Davis ====
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 (Post-doc)\\ (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. 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.
 +
 +
 +==== Basile Guth ====
 +
 +(Master Student)\\
 +Mail: basileguth@tutanuta.com\\
 +Interests: Climate prediction, climate variability, modelling, wind power, wind droughts\\
 +
 +
  
 ==== Carlos Otero ====  ==== Carlos Otero ==== 
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 **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.  **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. 
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 +
 +==== Nicola Cortesi ====
 +{{:working_groups:members:ncortesi_bsc_picture.jpg?100 |}} \\
 +**Postdoctoral Researcher** \\
 +[[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicola_Cortesi2|Personal page]]\\
 +**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).
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 +
 +==== Isadora Jiménez ====
 +{{:working_groups:members:ijimenez_bsc_picture.jpeg?100 |}} \\
 +**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.
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 +
 +[[https://www.bsc.es/karnezi-eleni | Eleni Karnezi]]
 +
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 +==== Llorenç Lledó Ponsati ====
 +{{:working_groups:llledo.jpg?100 |}}
 +**Postdoctoral researcher - climate scientist** \\
 +[[https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloren%C3%A7-lled%C3%B3-ponsati-624b2aa1|Personal page]]\\
 +**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.
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 +
 +==== Andrea Manrique-Suñén ====
 +{{:working_groups:members:andrea_cv.png?nolink&100 |}}
 +**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. 
 +----
 +==== Francesc Roura Adserias ====
 +{{:working_groups:francesc_roura_adserias_foto.png?100|}} \\
 +**Junior Research Engineer** \\
 +[[https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescroura/|Personal page]]\\
 +**Interests:** Seasonal forecasting, cryosphere, renewable energy, mountain meteorology, reanalysis.
 +
 +**Bio:** Francesc Roura holds a BSc in physics from the University of Barcelona since Jan 2020. He joined BSC on July 2019 thanks to the 1st BSC Undergraduate Summer Internship. He has worked as an intern at the at the Catalan Met Office (MeteoCat), at the remote sensing unit. He collaborated with the GAMA UB team (Meteorological Hazards Analysis Team). He has also collaborated with the physics department of the University of Girona in cloud coverage and with the Instituto de Astronomía de las islas Canarias (IAC), in the STARS4ALL UE project about light pollution.  
 +
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 +
 +
 +==== Miguel Segura ====
 +{{:working_groups:ms.jpeg?100 |}} \\
 +**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.
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 +
 +==== Sergi Bech ====
 +{{:working_groups:Sergi¨_Bech.jpg?100|}} \\
 +**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.
 +
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 +==== Paloma Trascasa-Castro ====
 +{{:working_groups:paloma_tcpic.jpg?100|}} \\
 +
 +**PhD student / visitor**\\
 +[[https://www.linkedin.com/in/paloma-trascasa-castro-407023103/|Linkedin]]\\
 +[[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paloma-Trascasa-Castro/|ResearchGate]]\\
 +
 +**Interests:** Climate services, climate dynamics, teleconnections, climate change impacts and climate change communication.\\
 +
 +**Bio**: Paloma 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 in the SMURPHS project (Securing Multidisciplinary UndeRstanding and Prediction of Hiatus and Surge events) looking at how black carbon and CO2 affect extreme precipitation over Africa. \\
 +
 +In 2019 she started her PhD 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, and spent the first two years looking at how the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability affects ENSO by changing the atmosphere-ocean feedback processes in the tropical Pacific Ocean. At the moment, Paloma is doing an internship at the Climate Services group to broaden her knowledge and learn how to apply theoretical climate knowledge to real life issues. She is working in the FOCUS-Africa and Tiban Ankatero projects. \\
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