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Barcelona

Curriculum Vitae


EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Climate Science, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, Sep 2013 - Mar 2017
Master of Meteorology, University of Barcelona, Sep 2009 - Sep 2010

Bachelor Degree in Physics, University of Barcelona, Jan 2004 - Sep 2009


RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
November 2017 - present
R&D Meteorologist, Weather Intelligence (Katestone)
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Maintenance and development of weather forecasts using WRF.
    - Identification of global datasets suitable for use in development of new tools.
    - Development of code to extract and analyse data.
    - Testing and development of new weather indices.
    - Write technical descriptions of products.


April 2017 - November 2017

Research Assistant, Climate Change Research Centre
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Evaluated sea-level rise in CMIP5 models supervised by Dr. John Church.
    - Adapted the old version of LOVECLIM model to the new one supervised by Dr. Laurie Menviel.

July 2011 - July 2013
Meteorologist Developer, Spanish Agency of Meteorology
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Developed a new 24/7 short-range forecast from the Ensemble Prediction System (EPS) to report Terminal Aerodrom Forecast (TAF) for airports in Spain.
    - Utilized EPS from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and in preparation for the new generation of EPS based on Harmonie and WRF.
    - Constructed EPSgrams for grid points (airports, cities) and areas (e.g., hydrographic basin) built in Python.
    - Participated in daily weather briefing for Catalonia and TAFs for NE of Spain.
Spanish Meteorological Service (AEMET), Territorial Delegation in Catalonia
Supervisors: Alfons Callado Pallarès, J. A. García Moya

October 2007 - June 2011
Radiosonde Operator, University of Barcelona
    - Analyzed surface observations, launched manually the radiosonde balloon and monitored the sounding with the software provided by Vaisala.
Supervisor: Dr. Bernat Codina Sánchez


May 2010 - September 2010
Technician of the Tropospheric Ozone Level, Catalan Government
    - Monitored surface ozone measurement in Catalonia.
    - Accomplished the routine tasks of forecasting and maintenance of the surveillance campaign web site.
    - Activated the information system in case of exceeding some of the thresholds.
    - Operated meteorological model MM5, photochemical model CMAQ, and emission model MECA.
Supervisor: Dr. Maria Rosa Soler

   


CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
  • AMOS/MSNZ Conference 2017
              7-10 February 2017
              ANU, Canberra (Australia)

             
  • CLIVAR Open Science Conference
              "Charting the course for climate and ocean research"
              18-25 September 2016
              Qingdao (China)             


  • Early Career Researcher Event
             12 February 2016
             University of Melbourne, Melbourne (Australia)


  • AMOS National Conference 2016
             8-11 February 2016
             MCEC, Melbourne (Australia)


  • AMOS National Conference 2015
    15-17 July 2015
    BCEC, Brisbane (Australia)


  • 4th CLIVAR Workshop
    "Evaluation of ENSO in Climate Models: ENSO in a changing climate"
    8-10 July 2015
    IPSL, Paris (France)


  • ENSO Workshop Australia
    "ENSO Extremes and Diversity: Dynamics, Teleconnection, and Impacts"
    4-6 February 2015
    University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)

  • Scientific Paper Writing Workshop
    9-11 December 2014
    University of Melbourne, Melbourne (Australia)

  • Early Career Researcher Event
    28 November 2014
    University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)


  • ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Annual Workshop
    24-27 November 2014
    Mercure Hunter Valley Resort, Pokolbin, New South Wales (Australia)


  • III International Conference on ENSO
    "Bridging the gaps between global ENSO Science and regional processes, extremes and impacts"
    12-14 November 2014
    Guayaquil (Ecuador)


  • WRF Workshop
    28 February 2014
    University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)


  • Early Career Researcher Event
    14 November 2013
    Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne (Australia)


  • ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Annual Workshop
    10-13 November 2013
    Cumberland Resort, Lorne, Victoria (Australia)


  • 4th International Meeting on Meteorology and Climatology of the Mediterranean
    27 February - 1 March 2013
    Banyuls, Roussillon (France)


  • International Conference on Ensemble Methods in Geophysical Sciences
    12-16 November 2012
    Météo-France, Toulouse (France)

AWARD RECEIVED
Poster Prize (ARCCSS 2014 Workshop)


COURSES
  • 6th Annual Winter School
    "The Science of Climate Change"

    19-23 June 2017
    University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)

  • 5th Annual Winter School
    "Tropical Meteorology"

    20-24 June 2016
    Monash University, Melbourne (Australia)

  • Climate and Weather Science (CWS) Laboratory training
    National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
    25 November 2015 
              University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)

  • Software Carpentry
    National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
    23-24 November 2015 
              University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)

  • NCI course: Advanced Parallel Programming
    National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
    25 May 2015 
              University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)

  • NCI course: Intro
    National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
    2 March 2015
    University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)

  • 3rd Annual Winter School
    "Geophysical Fluid Dynamics"

    16-20 June 2014
    Australian National University, Canberra (Australia)

  • WRF Tutorial
    24-27 February 2014
    University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)

  • The Role of Clouds and Aerosols in Climate
    Thomas Ackerman
    23-26 May 2011

    University of Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)

  • Large-scale Climate Modes of Variability, Teleconnection and Predictability
    Nate Mantua
    5-9 July 2010
                University of Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)

  • Numerical Weather Prediction
    J. A. García-Moya
    17-20 May 2010
    University of Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)

  • Operator and Administrator of Sounding System MW31
    Vaisala
    February 2009
                 University of Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)

LANGUAGES
English (IELTS: 7.5)
Catalan and Spanish (Mother Tongues)



INFORMATICS SKILLS
Operating Systems
    GNU/Linux
    Mac OS

    Windows

Programming Languages
    Python
    C/C++
    Fortran 90/95
    PHP
    SQL
    Visual Basic.NET
    Bash
    Korn Shell

    R
    Matlab

Office
   
Thunderbird
    Word
    Excel
    PowerPoint
    Outlook
    Mozilla Firefox


Application Software
   
Metview
    GrADS
    Surfer
    RAOB
    MARS (ECMWF)
    ecgate (ECMWF)
    DigiCORA Metgraph
    Magics


Other Tools
   
Latex
   
Sphinx
    SubVersion
    Git
    Doxygen
    HTML
    Google Fusion Tables
    Inkscape




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