Earth System Services Group Leader, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Biography

Dr. Albert Soret holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona). He is head of the Services group at the Earth Sciences Department of the BSC. The group host 24 engineers, physicists, social scientists, economists, communication experts and other air quality and climate researchers who try to bring the latest developments in earth sciences to the society. He is a postdoc researcher with 10 years of experience in the areas of Air Quality and Climate. He is the principal investigator of the S2S4E project (EC-H2020). Work Package leader within Clim4Energy (Copernicus), VISCA (H2020) and MAGIC (Copernicus) and he is also involved in EC-FP7 and H2020 projects: NEWA, EUPORIAS, SPECS, IMPREX, PRIMAVERA and APPRAISAL. His work has resulted in 11 peer-reviewed publications, 5 chapters in books, more than 50 contributions to conferences/workshops. He is the supervisor of several postdocs and three PhD students.