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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.
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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]]\\
+**Interests:** climate change, social impact derived from decision-making processes, social justice, knowledge transfer. \\
+**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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 **PhD student**\\
-**Interests**: Climate prediction, Climate Services, Weather regimes, Forecast quality assessment, Climate extremes, Software development.
+**Interests**: Climate prediction, Climate services, Weather regimes, Forecast quality assessment, Climate extremes, Software 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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-==== Basile Guth ====
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-**Master Student** \\
-**Interests:** Climate prediction, climate variability, modelling, wind power\\
-**Bio:** Basile holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL) and is currently doing his master's thesis from the same university in the BSC. His master's degree in physics is composed of a wide variety of subjects, ranging from astrophysics to biophysics and a minor in energy. His thesis focuses on the investigation of wind droughts and the study of their predictability.
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 ==== Alba Llabrés Brustenga ====
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 ==== Albert Martínez Botí ====
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-**Master Student**\\
+**Junior Research Engineer**\\
 **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 products. The main project in which Albert is involved consists of a coproduction process in which climate services products addressed to the retail Decathlon company are developed in order to provide support and help in climate-sensitive decision-making. Albert is also working on the FOCUS AFRICA project, especially on the design of a vignette that will be used by the National Meteorological Services of SADC (South African Development Countries) as training material addressed to help them to fill some capacity gaps related to the processing and post-processing of seasonal climate data.
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 ==== 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.
-**Bio:**  Jaume Ramon received a 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 modeling. In his Master's thesis, he studied the wind farm parameterization of the WRF-ARW model. Jaume 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 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. \\
-Master's 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 ====
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 **Interests:** Air quality management. Research on climate services tailored to different sectors such as renewable energy, agriculture and food security.  Development of novel strategies to better communicate research results to the end users.
-**Bio:** 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. 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, 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.
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-**UX Designer**\\
+**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
+**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.
-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 UI. She 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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 **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=====
 ==== Melanie Davis ====
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 (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.
+==== Basile Guth ====
+(Master Student)\\
+Mail: basileguth@tutanuta.com\\
+Interests: Climate prediction, climate variability, modelling, wind power, wind droughts\\
 ==== Carlos Otero ====

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