Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Climate Science, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, Sep 2013 - Mar 2017
Master in Meteorology, University of Barcelona, Sep 2009 - Sep 2010
Bachelor Degree in Physics, University of Barcelona, Jan 2004 - Sep 2009
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
October 2021 - present
Numeric Prediction System Developer, Bureau of Meteorology
- Collaborate with project teams and other system experts to design, develop, document, trial and evaluate improved or new numerical prediction systems in the Bureau's High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment, and deliver targeted outcomes at a high standard.
- Engage and collaborate with key stakeholders, including Research to Operations teams and other programs of the Bureau, researchers, and operational meteorologists, to investigate the performance of operational numerical prediction systems, and to identify opportunities, develop plans and deliver improvements for these systems.
- Contribute to resilient operations by providing proactive support to operational numerical models.
- Contribute to high-level planning in the operationalisation of numerical modelling systems.
February 2020 - September 2021
Meteorologist, Weatherzone-DTN
- Analyse evolving weather and climate patterns.
- Communicate weather-related impacts.
- Prepare and deliver interpretive scripts and commentaries for B2B customers and in support of B2C applications.
- Prepare and deliver customised meteorological briefings services and weather-related interviews and presentations for radio, print and online media.
- Conduct quality control of weather data.
- Ensure clients are proactively alerted of significant meteorological events.
- Produce seasonal climate outlooks for B2B customers.
November 2017 - February 2020
Meteorologist, Weather Intelligence (Katestone)
- 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
- Evaluated sea-level rise in CMIP5 models supervised by Dr. John Church.
- Adapted the old version of LOVECLIM model to the most recent version supervised by Dr. Laurie Menviel.
July 2011 - July 2013
Meteorologist Developer, Spanish Agency of Meteorology
- 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, Pau Escribà, 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/ICTMO Conference 2019
Darwin (Australia)
- Meteorological Technology World Expo 2018
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Myriad Conference 2018
Brisbane (Australia)
- AMOS/ICSHMO Conference 2018
UNSW, Sydney (Australia)
- AMOS/MSNZ Conference 2017
ANU, Canberra (Australia)
- CLIVAR Open Science Conference
18-25 September 2016
Qingdao (China)
- Early Career Researcher Event
University of Melbourne, Melbourne (Australia)
- AMOS National Conference 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
UNSW, Sydney (Australia)
- Scientific Paper Writing Workshop
9-11 December 2014
University of Melbourne, Melbourne (Australia)
- Early Career Researcher Event
28 November 2014
UNSW, 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
- Software Carpentry
National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
23-24 November 2015
- NCI course: Advanced Parallel Programming
National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
25 May 2015
- 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
- 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
LANGUAGES
English (IELTS: 7.5, 2016)
Catalan and Spanish (Mother Tongues)
INFORMATICS SKILLS
Operating Systems
GNU/Linux
Mac OS
Windows
Programming Languages
Python
Shell Scripting
C/C++
Fortran 90/95
PHP
HTML
SQL
Visual Basic.NET
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
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Latex
WordPress
Sphinx
JIRA
Git, Bitbucket
CDO
NCO
Google Drive
Google Analytics
Google Fusion Tables
Inkscape
