Head of the CLIMA (Climate & Health RG, ISGlobal, ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4843-6180) and The Planet Hub. UVIC Prof. and Assoc. Scientist to Hiroshima U. Founding director of the IC3 climate institute and former head of the LRC-PCB. MSc in engineering, completed the PhD in 1997 (UB) on the simulation of extreme ecosystems under climate forcing. Visiting fellow at Princeton and UCSD, and COLA-IGES associated scientist. Background in population ecology, climate dynamics and climate impact modelling. Taught ecology, advanced statistics, climate dynamics and sustainability and led/participated in 64 research projects. Mentored 31 postdoctoral fellows. Co-chair of CLIVAR-Spain (-2007), SSC of the MEDCLIVAR-ESF, CA and ER of the AR4-WGII and ER of AR6 (IPCC2007, 2021). SCM of the DIG of the World Climate Research Program and of the ISIMIP Health Impact Models for IPCC AR6. EBM: PLoS NTD, PLoS Clim. TT of the WMO climate & COVID-19. EG Health & Climate for UfM and EU Parliament. Advisor to UNHCHR.

The interplay between climate and health, where I attempt to uncover how climate impacts a wide range of diseases in natural and anthropogenic environments. I also work on climate dynamics, namely on the ENSO origin and predictability and towards improving translational climate services for health, focusing on climate extremes. I am interested in the development of new statistical techniques and on improving computational models with different levels of complexity to disentangle how human dynamics interacts with environmental factors and parasites in population ecology. In particular, on the modeling of climate-driven infectious diseases (i.e. waterborne, foodborne, vectorborne and airborne). We also work in the AIRLAB on new approaches to determine eDNA in bioaerosols for the understanding of host-parasite relationships globally. We focus on the characterization of the aerial microbiome (i.e. bacteria, fungi and viruses), with new developments on metagenomics and laser fluorimetry.