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
February 2020 - present
Meteorologist, Weatherzone (The Weather Company)
    - Analysis of evolving weather patterns.
    - Producing weather forecasts with graphical products, interpretive scripts and commentaries.
   - Review products being produced by Weatherzone meteorologists for clients.
   - Perform interviews on the radio.
   - Provide meteorological briefing services to clients.

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
              11-14 June 2019
              Darwin (Australia)

  • Meteorological Technology World Expo 2018
              9-11 October 2018
              Amsterdam (Netherlands)

  • Myriad Conference 2018
              16-18 May 2018
              Brisbane (Australia)

  • AMOS/ICSHMO Conference 2018
              5-9 February 2018
              UNSW, Sydney (Australia)

  • 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
         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 
            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, 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