Profile

I am an open-minded and enthusiastic Climate Researcher at the CICERO Center for International Research in Oslo, Norway. My work focuses on the investigation of climate change mitigation scenarios and Earth system reversibility, as well as the land component in the frame of the global carbon cycle. This includes work on the permafrost-carbon feedback and the biosphere in climate change projections of current generation climate models and corresponding dynamic ecosystem (in)stabilities. Further, my research interest lies in the analysis of land-atmosphere and land-climate interactions, including thermodynamic and hydrological processes at the land surface. I extend my research to investigating high-latitude ecosystems as potential tipping elements under changing warming conditions.

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Interests

  • Climate Change
  • Carbon Cycle
  • Terrestrial Ecosystems
  • Permafrost
  • Climate Feedbacks
  • Tipping Points
  • Earth System Modelling
  • Climate Emulators

Education

Complutense University of Madrid

Madrid, Spain

Ph.D in Physics

Oct 2017 - Dec 2021

Free University of Berlin

Berlin, Germany

M.Sc. in Meteorology

Oct 2013 - Jul 2017

B.Sc. in Meteorology

Oct 2010 - Sept 2013

Employment

CICERO - Centre for International Climate Research

Oslo, Norway

Senior Researcher

Jan 2024 - present

  • Analyze large ensembles from Simple and Conceptual Climate Models
  • Assessing the climate impacts and reversibility processes of climate change mitigation scenarios
  • Investigating climate feedbacks and interactions in various Model Intercomparison Projects
  • Quantifying the permafrost carbon feedback under climate change

NORCE - Norwegian Research Centre

Bergen, Norway

Postdoc

Jan 2022 - Dec 2023

  • Land-climate interaction, particularly high latitude ecosystems, using CLM/NorESM
  • Studying the carbon-climate feedbacks in the frame of CMIP6
  • Assessing the role of permafrost as a climate tipping element
  • Quantifying the climate impacts and reversibility processes of emission overshoot scenarios

Global Forecasters - CIEMAT

Madrid, Spain

Research assistant

May 2017 - Sept 2017

  • Implementing soil physical modifications to the JSBACH Land Surface Model
  • Analyzing sensitivity of climate-change simulations to modified subsurface physical parameterizations
  • Investigation of land-atmosphere interaction processes in climate-change simulations
  • Quantifying the role of the land in the global heat inventory

Reuniwatt

La Reunion, France

Internship

Oct 2016 - Apr 2017

  • Implementing optimized solar irradiance configurations in the WRF regional weather forecasting model
  • Production and evaluation of WRF hindcast datasets
  • Design and development of an automatic system for finding optimal WRF configurations

MPI - Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Hamburg, Germany

Student assistant

Mar 2015 - Sept 2016

  • Implementing a flow field correction data assimilation to the MPI-Earth System Model
  • Performing and analyzing MPI-ESM model experiments

Institute for Meteorology - Free University of Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Student assistant

Nov 2013 - Jan 2015

  • Using statistical methods to obtain significant climate response signals from 'climate engineering' simulations

AWI - Alfred-Wegener-Institute

Bremerhaven, Germany

Internship

Feb 2014 - Apr 2014

  • Obtaining reliability information from backward-trajectories of re-analysis experiments

GFZ - German Research Center for Geosciences

Potsdam, Germany

Student assistant

May 2012 - Nov 2013

  • Prepare and validate regional climate model outputs
  • Computing future climate scenarios
  • Archiving and homogenizing historical datasets

ETH - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Zurich, Switzerland

Internship

Jul 2012 - Sept 2012

  • Case studies of the durability of fronts over the southern Indian ocean by correlating potential vorticity and condensational heating

Project funding

NAVIGATE
Navigating the uncharted territory of the Anthropocene climate
WP co-lead, task lead (2.3/10 million NOK)
Norwegian Research Council, Norway, 2025-2028

Towards2020 Seed Funding Project
GRAFITE (Global pRojections And Feedback Interactions in Tipping point Emulators)
Project lead (0.5 million NOK)
CICERO Center for Internation Climate Research, Oslo, Norway, 2024

Fast Track Initiative Seed Funding Project
LICORICE (Effects of climate-driven Land-surface Integrity Changes in permafrOst Regions on northward expanding agrICulturE)
Project lead (0.5 million NOK)
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, 2023

Awards and Grants

Best PYRN ECS Poster Presentation Award: Runner-up
EUCOP6 European Conference on Permafrost, Puigcerdà, Spain, June 2023

PhD Thesis Award
Spanish National Research Council - most relevant theses in 2021
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain, February 2023

RCN Researcher Mobility Grant
Research Council of Norway, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway, December 2022

Utrecht Network Young Researchers Mobility Grant
Utrecht Network Kingston upon Hull, UK, April 2021

Top 3 presentations at PhDay Physics Complutense 2019
Complutense University Madrid, Madrid, Spain, November 2019

Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft Travel Grant
Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, August 2016

Languages

German

English

Spanish

Norwegian