Francisco Doblas-Reyes - Biography#

Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes is research professor of the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), the most prestigious Catalan institution employing senior scientists in all research fields. He develops his research activity as director of the Earth Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center since November 2014. He took up this position after leading the Climate Forecasting Unit of the Institut Català de Ciències del Clima (IC3) from 2010 to 2015, also in Barcelona.

Prof Doblas-Reyes has a long research experience in the understanding, simulation and prediction of climate variability and change and started working on climate services research ten years ago. He has participated and coordinated several international research projects and initiatives related to his research interests. He is currently the coordinator of two collaborative European projects and leads several national projects and research contracts. He is the author of more than 200 peer-review journal articles and has a long record of obtaining competitive computing and financial resources to support this research. He is member of several international panels. He is the direct supervisor of four senior scientists, six postdocs, five senior engineers and two junior engineers, and regularly works with a large variety of department members,

He was coordinating lead author of the most recent Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a lead author in the Fifth Assessment Report and has been heavily involved in the design of both technical and scientific aspects of the Sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project.