About

I am an atmospheric scientist interested in optical and physicial properties of aerosol particles. My research includes the analysis of light-absorbing aerosols, mainly black carbon, organic particles (ambient and lab-generated) and mineral dust. I have been involved in testing reference aerosol absorption techniques through photo-thermal interferometry and the developement of novel correction schemes using state-of-the art techniques and machine learning approaches.

I received my PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona in 2022, with a focus on the variability of optical properties of aerosol particles. Between 2018 and 2022 I was a PhD student at IDAEA-CSIC. There I studied the effects of the artefacts introduced by filter-photometers (AE33) for measuring absorption, and the absorbing characteristics of aerosols at the Mediterranean basin as well as from mineral dust from the Sahara.

I moved for an international postdoc to the University of Nova Gorica, in Slovenia. There, I held a MSCA fellowship from 2023 to 2025 as part of the MSCA COFUND project SMASH, focused on the study and applications of machine learning techniques to improve the characterization of the absorption properties of aerosols. As part of my fellowship, I did an international secondment to the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada), and an intersectoral secondment at Haze Instruments d.o.o. (Ljubljana, Slovenia). After my fellowship, I secured a position as an assitant professor at the University of Nova Gorica, where I continue to expand my research line on aerosol characterization.