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
Earth System Scientific Modeller, Bureau of Meteorology
- Implement ACCESS-G4/GE4, an upgrade of the foundational Numerical Weather Prediction model to the Bureau of Meteorology including monitoring of two trials running on hindcast mode, interaction with downstream users, task-level documentation, improvement of existing code and new apps.
- Conduct verification of rainfall forecast and other fields comparing ACCESS-G4/GE4 with the current operational version and observational data.
- Co-chair of "NWP Technical" meetings, writing minutes and organizing talks and topics to discuss.
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 Conference 2022: The Critical Decade
Adelaide (Australia)
- Annual R & D workshop: Water in the Earth System
Melbourne (Australia)
- Annual R & D workshop: From the Tropics to Antarctica
Online
- 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)
SOFTWARE 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
Cylc/Rose
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Latex
WordPress
Sphinx
JIRA
Git, Bitbucket
CDO
NCO
Google Drive
Google Analytics
Google Fusion Tables
Inkscape