RodÓ I LÓpez, Xavier

Biography

Xavier Rodó (Terrassa, 1965). Head of the Climate & Health Program at ISGlobal. Founding director of the Cat. Inst. Clim. Sci. (IC3) and former head of the Clim. Res. Lab. at the PCB. MSc in engineering, completed his PhD in 1997 (UB) on the simulation of extreme systems under climate forcing. Visiting fellow at Princeton U. and afiliated scientist at COLA, US. Taught ecology, advanced statistics and sustainability (Unesco Chair). RyC researcher at the Dep. Met. & Astr. UB. In 2003 he edited the book `Global Climate: Current Research and Uncertainties in the Climate System, Springer-Verlag'. He was co-chair of CLIVAR-Spain (-2007) and SSC of the MEDCLIVAR-ESF. CA and ER of the AR4-WGII (IPCC2007). SCM of the Drought Integration Group (DIG) of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP). Editorial Board Member of Nature Scientific Reports `Earth & Environmental Sciences'. Member of the OPCC to monitor climate change in the Pyrenees.

Research Interest

Mediterranean climate; tropical teleconnections; ENSO origin&dynamics; role of climate variability on the global carbon cycle; simulation of climate impacts (health, water, extremes). In the former I am particularly involved in trying to disentangle the origin of El Niño, the ways ENSO, the tropical Atlantic and the Atlantic tripole interact to modulate SW Mediterranean climate and the role that the monsoon plays modulating this interplay with both statistical and dynamical models. In the latter, I focus essentially on infectious diseases driven by climate (ABM, ODE), and on the impacts of climate on the hydrological cycle. The development of statistical techniques for improving climate diagnostics is another of my historical interests. Last but not least, I am also involved in the study of the interactions between climate and biogeochemistry of the global carbon cycle. To this end we implemented a network of EGE gases observatories in the Iberian Peninsula.