Dominic Royé

Ramon y Cajal Researcher,
MBG-CSIC

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The “where”, “why”, and the “how”

I work as a Ramon y Cajal reseacher at the MBG-CSIC. My research interests include bioclimatology and spatial data science. I am an enthusiastic R user, with a lot of curiosity for spatial analysis, data visualizations, management and manipulation, and GIS. Keep up with my R tinkering in my blog. Learn more about my research interests in publications.

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About me

Climate scientist, curious about all intersections of data and society.

I am a climate scientist and actually, I am Ramon y Cajal researcher at the Misión Biologica de Galicia - The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), previously I was the head of data science at the Climate Research Foundation (FIC) and researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela. I am originally from Grevenbroich, near by Cologne, in Germany. I graduated in Geography and Hispanic Philology at the University of Cologne and RWTH-Aachen University in 2010. After I met my wife in Galicia, I came to Santiago de Compostela, in northwest Spain, and made my Ph.D. in 2015 about the relationship between health and climate at the same University.

  • Interests: applied climatology, physical geography, biometeorology, public health, geographic information systems, R programming, data management, manipulation and visualization

I am a member of the Public Health Research Group at the University of Santiago de Compostela. In addition, I am a close collaborator of two other research groups, Geobiomet at the University of Cantabria and Climatology Group at the University of Barcelona. Since 2019 I am a member of the MCC Collaborative Research Network, an international research program on the associations between environmental stressors, climate, and health.

I’m particularly interested in biometeorology, among others, the relationship between human health and the atmospheric environment, and on the other hand, applied physical geography with a focus on atmospheric variables and their spatio-temporal behaviors.

  • PhD in Physical Geography | University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 2015
  • B.S. in Geography and Hispanic Philology | University of Cologne | RWTH-Aachen University, Germany | 2010

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Publications

  • Niu Y, Chen R, Sera F, Urban A, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Honda Y, Huber V, Guo Y, Tong S, Coelho MSZS, Saldiva PHN, Lavigne E, Correa PM, Valdés Ortega N, Osorio S, Achilleos S, Royé D, Jaakkola JJK, Ryti N, Pascal M, Schneider A, Breitner-Busch S, Entezari A, Mayvaneh F, Raz R, Ng CFS, Hashizume M, Carrasco G, da Silva SDNP, Madureira J, Holobaca IH, Kim H, Lee W, Tobias A, Íñiguez C, Guo YL, Pan SC, Li S, Masselot P, Bell ML, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Gasparrini A, Kan H (2026). Association of mortality and combined oxidative capacity of ozone and nitrogen dioxide. Nature Sustainability, pp. 1-10. 10.1038/s41893-026-01875-y
  • Choi Y, Byun G, Kim H, Stewart R, Song Y, Heo S, Lee JT, Tong S, Lavigne E, Valdés Ortega N, Matus Correa P, Osorio S, Achilleos S, Kyselý J, Urban A, Royé D, Orru H, Maasikmets M, Jaakkola JJK, Ryti N, Pascal M, Schneider A, Breitner S, Katsouyanni K, Samoli E, Carlsen HK, Entezari A, Mayvaneh F, Raz R, Stafoggia M, de’Donato F, Hashizume M, Ng CFS, Madaniyazi L, Hurtado Diaz M, Arellano EEF, Klompmaker J, Rao S, Madureira J, Gaio V, Guo Y, Scovronick N, Garland RM, Kim H, Lee W, Forsberg B, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Ragettli MS, Guo YL, Pan SC, Armstrong B, Sera F, Gasparrini A, Masselot P, Mistry M, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Bell ML (2026). Temporal changes in mortality risk associated with PM10 across 143 cities in 26 countries: a multicountry, multicity time-series study. The Lancet Planetary Health, art. no. 101465. 10.1016/j.lanplh.2026.101465

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