About me

I am a climate scientist and actually, I am post-doctoral fellow 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 weather at the same University. Now I live in the fantastic city of Porto in Portugal.

The main lines of research are, on the one hand, biometeorology and geographies of health, 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.

I am an enthusiastic R user, with a lot of curiosity for spatial analysis, data visualizations, management and manipulation, and GIS.

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.

Feel free to contact me.

Projects

[2019-2022] AVODIS - Understanding and building on the social context of rural Portugal to prevent wildfire disasters. (University of Porto)

[2020-2021] Short-term effect of heat and cold on the use of respiratory medications. An ecological study of time series. (DRO-ANT-2020-01, AEMPS) (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)

[2018-2020] CLICES- CLImate of the last CEntury in Spanish mainland. (University of Barcelona, University of Zaragoza, CSIC)

[2017-2020] ELECTRONET - Atmospheric Electricity Network: coupling with the Earth System, climate and biological systems. info (Cost Action 15211)

[2016-2019] FIREXTR - Prevent and prepare society for extreme fire events: the challenge of seeing the forest and not just the trees. info (University of Porto)

[2018-2020] Prevalence of consumption of alcohol, cannabis and other drugs in students between 14 and 18 years of age in Lugo. (University of Santiago de Compostela)

[2017-2019] MEDEA3 - Study of socioeconomic and environmental inequalities in the geographical distribution of mortality in large cities (1996-2015). info (Multicenter Research Project)

[2017-2019] Intensive alcohol consumption: characterization of a new trajectory towards alcoholism. (University of Santiago de Compostela)

[2014-2016] Biometeorological approach to study the spatial variability of influenza in the Iberian Peninsula. (University of Cantabria)

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Courses

• 2019

Introduction in Geographic Information Systems and Cartography with R [15h] (Summer School, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Introduction in Geographic Information Systems and Cartography with R, II Edition [15h] (Summer School, University of Santiago de Compostela)

Introduction in Geographic Information Systems with R [30h] (University of Porto)

• 2018

Introduction in Geographic Information Systems and Cartography with R, I Edition [15h] (Summer School, University of Santiago de Compostela)

• 2014

Practical applications of R with climatological data [25h] (University of Barcelona)

Climatic applications of Geographic Information Systems [12h] (University of Santiago de Compostela)

• 2013

Introduction to Statistics with R [20h] (University of Santiago de Compostela)

Introduction in data management, manipulation, visualization and statistics with R [40h] (University of Barcelona)