I started my research career in 2006 as fellowship in the University of Granada (UGR) to study my Ph.D. in the development and set-up of a star-photometer for columnar aerosol characterization at nighttime, which until now is the only instrument available in Spain and one of the few in the world. I developed new calibration methodologies and algorithms for obtaining high quality data and made day-to-night analyses of columnar aerosol properties.
After defending my Ph.D. dissertation in 2010 I moved to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in USA for my postdoctoral studies. My research in NASA/GSFC was focused in multi-wavelength lidar systems for atmospheric studies, with special emphasis in the capabilities of spaceborne lidar systems to retrieve aerosol microphysical properties vertically-resolved.
From 2016 to 2018 I was awarded by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Reintegration Grant fellowship at the UGR for continuing my research in retrievals of aerosol microphysical properties with multi-wavelength spaceborne lidar and also with radiometric measurements. As Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow I start my collaboration with the University of Lille and GRASP.SAS and become the PI of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Innovative and Staff Exchange ‘GRASP-ACE’ that focused in further developments of GRASP radiative transfer code for the retrieval of aerosol microphysical properties vertically-resolved by the combination of backscattering lidar and polarimetry measurements, which is the configuration planned for the upcoming Aerosol and Cloud, Convection and Precipitation (ACCP) NASA mission. The GRASP-ACE project includes the participation of the University of Granada (Spain), University of Valladolid (Spain), University of Lille (France), CNRS (France), GRASP.SAS company (France), Free University of Berlin (Germany), NASA/GSFC (USA), University of Maryland Baltimore County (USA), Physics Instrumentation Center (Russia) and the Stepanov Institute of Physics (Belarus).
In 2018 I obtained a Tenure-Track position in the University of Granada and became a full professor in 2021. During that time I am also participating in other projects different in the group and be in charge of different training activities.
Since 2007 I have published 43 peer-reviewed publications indexed in the JCR (15 as first author) with more than 1000 citations and he has an H-index of 20 (Scopus database). I have participated in 17 projects, being 7 of them international, leading 4 (two international and another two national) and attended to more than 30 conferences (22 international) with more than 100 contributions. I am associated editor in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Remote Sensing and in Frontiers in Remote Sensing. I am also referee of many peer-review papers for JCR journals and reviewer of many national and international applications.
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