Education

• Ph.D. in Earth, Universe and Environmental Sciences, Université Grenoble Alpes (France), 2023
• M.Sc. in Earth Science, Atmosphere and Climate, Université Grenoble Alpes (France), 2020
• B.Sc. in Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), 2018

Work experience

• June 2024 - present: Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Snow HydRO Lab @ University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (USA)
  • Active development of the iSnobal snow model focusing on snowmelt predictions in the Upper Colorado River Basin (Western US)
  • Supervisor: S. McKenzie Skiles
• Oct. 2020 - Dec. 2023: Ph.D. in Snow Radiative Transfer
  • Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble (France)
  • Three-dimensional modeling of the interactions between solar radiation and snow: from the fundamental role of its microstructure to that of mountain topography
  • Supervisor: Ghislain Picard (IGE) & Marie Dumont (CNRM-CEN)
• Feb. 2020 - Jun. 2020: Graduate internship
  • Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), Grenoble (France)
  • Impact of topography on snow surface temperature
  • Supervisor: Ghislain Picard
• Sep. 2019 - Dec. 2019: Research engineer
  • Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), Grenoble (France)
  • DEM generation with Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques
  • Supervisor: Laurent Arnaud & Ghislain Picard

Projects and awards

• PhD award in Hydrology Henri Milon 2025 by the Société Hydrotechnique de France

• Travel grant to Busan IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly 2025

  • Funding body: International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) and University of Utah
  • Grant amount: $1000 (IACS) and $500 (University of Utah)

Service and leadership

• Peer-review activity: Journal of Glaciology, Atmospheric Pollution Research

• Active role in the development of the open-sourceCommunity iSnobal model (snow mass and energy balance model)

• Master students:
  • 2024 - 2026: Mentoring of current graduate students in the Snow HydRO Lab (University of Utah)
  • 2021: Elise Ortega, IGE (Université Grenoble Alpes): Comparisons of algorithms for remote sensing of snow surface temperature (co-supervised with Sara Arioli)

• Participation in NASA’s Western Water Action Office (WWAO) workshop to improve water management in the arid Western US by connecting NASA data with water managers and decision makers

• PhD research highlighted by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, France)

• Participation in a large-scale field campaign to measure the presence of Saharan dust in the snowpack (French Alps)