EMPLOYMENT RECORD
04/2025-present
Postdoctoral researcher, Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), Grenoble,France.
Assess the spatio-temporal variability and long-term evolution of accumulation and precipitation over High Mountain Asia using the "MAR" regional climate model for dynamical downscaling.
04/2024-03/2025
Postdoctoral researcher, Group of Meteorology, Universitat de Barcelona (METEO-UB), Barcelona, Spain.
Low-resolution global climate modeling and prediction using the intermediate-complexity model SPEEDY within the DYNCAST project.
04/2022-03/2024
Postdoctoral researcher, Group of Meteorology, Universitat de Barcelona (METEO-UB), Barcelona,Spain.
MARGARITA SALAS personal fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Universities.
Project title: ’Influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on High-Mountain Asian climate’ (NAHMAS).
09-12/2023
Research Visitor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) , University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Granted with a CANON Fellowship.
01/2021-02/2022
Postdoctoral researcher, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Leioa, Spain.
Disentangling anthropogenic from natural drivers of the climate variability in High Mountain Asia.
11/2019-02/2020
Postdoctoral researcher, Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), Grenoble,France.
Evaluation of blowing snow in the Siberian Arctic using the Regional Atmosphere Model (’MAR’). Application of a developed diagnostics on snow characteristics from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5 and CMIP6).
10/2016-10/2019
PhD researcher, Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), Grenoble, France.
Advisor: Olga Zolina.
PhD Thesis: ’The role of the Arctic snow cover in high-latitude hydrological cycle as revealed by climate model simulations’.
03/2016-07/2016
Research Internship, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain.
Advisors: Javier García-Serrano and Martin Ménégoz.
MSc: ’On the observed connection between Arctic sea ice and Eurasian snow in relation to thewinter North Atlantic Oscillation’.
09/2012-07/2013
Undergraduate Internship, Dept. Theoretical Physics, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
Advisor: María Luisa Sarsa
BSc:’Direct detection of dark matter at the LSC’ (Canfranc Underground Laboratory).
GRANTS
CANON Research Fellowship with the project BRIDGE "Barotropic Rossby waves linkinG Arctic sea-Ice decline with Eurasian climate" host by Prof. Hisashi Nakamura at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) - University of Tokyo [3 months, Sep-Dec 2023].
"Beca para jóvenes investigadoras e investigadores" ("Scholarship for young researchers") from the Scientific Committee of CLIVAR 2023:"Towards and integrated View of Climate" funding the registration fee [January 2023].
Recipient of a personal fellowship MARGARITA SALAS from the Spanish Ministry of Universities. Project title: ’Influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on High-Mountain Asian climate’ (NAHMAS) host by the Group of Meteorology, Universitat de Barcelona (METEO-UB), Barcelona, Spain. [04/2022-03/2024].
GREENICE (N.61841) ’Impacts of sea ice and snow cover changes on climate, green growth and society’ and TRACE (N.81512) ’The role of the Atlantic in constraining Eurasian climate change’, NordForsk Foundation (WP 1: Impact of cryosphere changes on the large-scale atmospheric circulation), PI Noel Keenlyside. University of Bergen UiB, Norway: student grant as research visitor [15/10/2017-27/10/2017].
OISE-1545913 ARCTIC PIRE ’Promoting Urban Sustainability in the Arctic’. George Washington University GWU, U.S.A.: student grant to participate at the ’International Arctic Field Course on Permafrost and Northern Studies’, Salekhard-Labitnangi-Vorkuta, Russia host by Moscow State University [05/07/2017 – 24/07/2017].
Recipient of a mobility grant LaBEx OSUG@2020- AO7bis Volet International. Université Grenoble Alpes UGA, France: student grant to complement the participation at the ’International Arctic Field Course on Permafrost and Northern Studies’, Salekhard-Labitnangi-Vorkuta, Russia host by Moscow State University [05/07/2017 –24/07/2017].
ERASMUS fellowship. Funding entity: European Union. Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France [20/09/2014– 30/06/2015].
FIELD EXPERIENCE
'Snow hydrology field methods course' organised by Colorado State University and Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE) in the Central Spanish Pyrennes (Spain) [March 2023]
Participation in field campaigns: glaciological data collection with CYME team from Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), Alps Mountain Range, France [2016-2019]
Course of 'Alpine techniques and rescue in an isolated environment' from National Ski and Mountaineering School ('École Nationale de Ski et d'Alpinisme', ENSA) funded by the Institute for Research and Development ('Institut de Recherche pour le Développement',IRD),Chamonix, France [Dec 2017]
’International Arctic Field Course on Permafrost and Northern Studies’: permafrost active layer measurements in collaboration with Dr. Dmitry Streletskiy (George Washington University) and Dr.Valery Grebenets from Lomonsov Moscow State University (Department of Geography), Salekhard-Labitnangi-Vorkuta, Russia [July 2017].
PARTICIPATION IN PROJECTS
AAPG2021 iFROG 'Impact of Future Rain/snow transition height On Glacier mass balance (iFROG)'[48 months], PI Fanny Brun (Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), France) : postdoctoral researcher [01/04/2025-31/03/2027]
AAPG2023 RECAP ' Combining glaciological field surveys, REmote sensing and regional Climate modelling to Analyse the variability of accumulation in the Pamir mountains (RECAP)'[3 years], PIs Patrick WAGNON (Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), France) and Christoph MAYER (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) ,Germany) : postdoctoral researcher [01/04/2025-31/03/2027]
CNS2022-135312 DYNCAST ’Low-resolution global climate modeling: DYNCAST dynamics and prediction.’
[01/04/2024-30/06/2025], PI Javier García Serrano,Group of Meteorology, Universitat de Barcelona (METEOUB), Barcelona, Spain: postdoctoral researcher [01/04/2024-31/03/2025]
RTI2018-100696-B-I00 iMechPro ’Ice Microstructure and Mechanics, and their Implications for the Integrity of Climate Proxies in Ice Cores’[03/2019-02/2022],PI Sergio Henrique Faria,’BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change’, Leioa, Spain: post-doctoral researcher [01/03/2021-28/02/2022].
ANR-15-CE01-0015 AC-AHC2 ’Atmospheric circulation and Arctic hydrological cycle changes’ [12/2015 –05/2020]. Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement/Université Grenoble Alpes, France : post-doctoral research [01/02/2020-31/03/2020].
ANR-14-AORS-0002 ARCTIC-ERA ’Arctic Climate Change and its Impact on Environment, Infrastructures, and Resource Availability’, Belmont Forum Foundation, [03/2015-03/2020], PI Olga Zolina. Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement/Université Grenoble Alpes, France: PhD student [01/10/2016-31/10/2019] and post-doctoral researcher [01/11/2019-31/12/2020].
MINECO-RETOS RESILIENCE CGL2013-41055-R ’Strengthening the European Energy Network using Climate Services’ [01/2014-12/2016]. Barcelona Supercomputing Center BSC, Spain: master intern [15/03/2016-31/07/2016].