IBWoClimA

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The Ibero-American Women Network for Climate Action (IBWoClimA) aims to develop a series of analysis of climate change and variability impacts with a gender perspective and raise awareness of why gender issues are key in climate research

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ABOUT US

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IBWoClimA is a network integrated by researchers specialized in Climate, Health and Social Sciences focused on the impacts of climate variability and change on human health, socioeconomic development and environmental protection.

We aim to study and rise awarness about the differenciated impacts of climate variability and change for women and make a clear statement about the importance of fostering a real integration of women led research in the development of public policies oriented to reduce the impacts of climate variability and change across Iberoamerica.

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OUR PHILOSOPHY

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Climate variability and change have a differenciated impact on women. Several aspects of historical and cultural development result in a limited participation of women in the decision making processes. Hence, impacts of climate variability and change on women are often neglected or considered from a male perspective. While efforts are made to be more inclusive of women in the process, dominant stereotypes are hindering a real integration of women.

The integration of women in the decision making process must start from the scientific basis of climate variability and change. Fostering a wider community of women led research would contribute to accelerate the integration process in a more effective way. Inclusion means a proper understanding of the historical development, cultural differences and overall experiences of women in the different aspects of participation in society.

INTERESTS

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Our multi, inter and transdisciplinary network is devoted to bridge climate, health and social sciences to support sustainable development.

CLIMATE

A better understanding of climate science is fundamental to assess how climate variability and change affect us. As the projected impacts of climate variability and change suggest an exacerbated occurrence of extreme events in the tropical areas, regional and local knowledge become key in the development of science based solutions to mitigate the impacts of such events.

HEALTH

The occurrence of extreme events (e.g heatwaves and heavy rainfall) contribute to the increase of health related emergencies due to heatstrokes and also to the spread of vector-borne diseases. In the long term, exposure to increasing temperatures is also related with health deterioration. The impacts of climate variability and change on temperature and rainfall have a direct link with health issues across the globe. Our network explores the links between climate and health and seeks to develop integrated datasets that may contribute to the improvement of human health under a warming climate.

LAW AND POLICY MAKING

While the governments commitment to mitigation and adaptation are strong, it is often unclear how science is integrated in the decision and policy making process. The differences in the approach of the issue of climate change impacts across disciplines may represent a barrier in the process. We aim to establish bridges that improve communication across disciplines to better integrate the climate science basis in the law and policy making process as a way to ensure a real commitment supported with scientific knowledge.

SUSTAINABILITY

Development must be sustainable and we have the responsibility to advocate for environmental protection as climate affects the biosphere as a whole. To nurture a sustainable development we must integrate the knowledge of the different groups and make sure the decision making process is truly committed with the environment. Nature encompasses key solutions to aid the mitigation of the impacts of climate variability and change.

Dra. Paola Arias

PAOLA ARIAS - Colombia

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Paola A. Arias is an associate professor in the Environmental Engineering School of the Antioquia University in Colombia.

Her research focuses on climate variability and change in northern South America and addresses atmospheric moisture transport, north and south hemispheres connectivity and the American Monsoon System. She devotes her work to analyze the impacts of climate change in northern South America hydroclimatology using modelling techniques. Her research also includes the development of high resolution regional simulations as a tool to understand precipitation extremes in the region. Recently, her work is considering the detection and attribution of heavy rainfall and drought to climate variability and change. She is author in the chapter 8 of the Sixth IPCC report, related to changes in the hydrological cycle and the technical summary and the summary for decission makers and the monsoon anex in the same report.

Dra. Rosmeri da Rocha

ROSMERI DA ROCHA - Brazil

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Rosmeri P. da Rocha is an associated professor of Department of Atmospheric Science in University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

She is coordinator of the group "Impact of Low Frequency Events in the Atmosphere on the Climate of the Americas" of the National Research Council of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (CNPq / MCTI-Brazil). At USP she coordinates the "Climate Studies Group", GrEC-USP (http://www.grec.iag.usp.br/data/index_BRA.php). She develops numerical and observational research on different temporal and spatial scales with special interests in climate and its variability and the behaviour of synoptic systems. In recent years she has focused on studies in the area of regional climate modelling, especially in the simulations of the present climate, climate variability and future trends within projects related to climate change due to global warming. She is internationally recognised by the works related with regional climate modelling application in South America and is a collaborator of the CORDEX-WCRP (COordinated Regional Downscaling EXperiment-World Climate Research Program) South America and also collaborates with the group “Earth System Physics Section” -ICTP (Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy) for modelling studies of climate change and its applications (in health, environment, hydrology, agriculture, etc.). Rosmeri P. da Rocha is author of nearly 100 articles in journals indexed in the SCI and of publications in other journals, books or proceedings. His research work has led him to participate in over 25 research projects funded by national and international agencies (FAPESP- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, CNPq / MCTI, Ministério do Meio Ambriente-MMA-Brasil, CAPES-Coordinação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior-Brasil, Unión Europea, Petrobrás-Brasilla) being PI of 9 of them.

Dra. Ana María Durán Quesada

ANA MARIA DURAN QUESADA - Costa Rica

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Ana M. Durán Quesada is an associate professor in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department of the School of Physics of the University of Costa Rica.

She graduated from Physics at the University of Costa Rica and holds a MSc. in Meteorology, Physical Oceanography and Climate Change as well as a PhD. in Applied Physics, both from the University of Vigo in Spain, her PhD was awarded international mention and summa cum laude. She was a doctoral intern student at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research and the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development. Since 2012 she is a professor at the University of Costa Rica and conducts her research in the Center for Geophysical Research and the Center for Environmental Pollution in the University of Costa Rica. She is co-founder of the Climate System Observation Laboratory of the School of Physics, coordinator of the Isotopes network for tropical ecosystem studies and current coordinator of IBWoClima. Her work combines fields work and modelling, being part of relevant international collaboration with recent field campaigns including the Organisation of Tropical East Pacific Convection (OTREC) experiment (NSF grant) and the sea-surface MIcroLAyer at Night campaign (MILAN, supported by an ERC grant). She was a guest researcher at the University of Tokyo (2014/12-2015/2). Her research focuses on understanding the surface-atmosphere interaction processes within the hydrological cycle, moisture transport processes, isotopic meteorology and the interplay of the large and regional scales in the development of convection in tropical America. Her work includes the analysis of climate variability and change impact on rainfall and modulation of the hydrological cycle combining observations, modelling and isotopic tracers. Her field work often includes a component on impacts of rainfall and surface fluxes on agriculture and forests. Her work includes over 30 publications in peer review journals. She combines her research with initiatives to foster the development of women careers in STEM and include the gender perspective in climate research as a way to promote gender equality in the decision making process and promote a leading role of women in climate sciences.

Dra. Concepción Gimeno

CONCEPCION GIMENO - Spain

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Concepción Gimeno is an associate professor in the Law Faculty of the University of León in Spain.

She was awarded her PhD by Universidad Complutense de Madrid and she works as an associated professor in Philosophy of Law in the University of León. She was advisor in the Parliament of Canarias (Spain) and conducted research as postdoc in the Giovanni Tarello Institute (Italy), University of Mar del Plata (Argentina) and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University. Her research lines include law argumentation, law and climate change as well as law and gender. She is a published author from editorials that include Thomson Reuters, Tecnos, Tirant lo Blach and Universitas. She was responsible for internationa exchange, the SICUE program and the Public Law secretariat at the University of León.

Dr. Luis Gimeno

LUIS GIMENO - Spain

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Luis Gimeno is full Professor at the University of Vigo, where he belongs to Ephyslab, a research group integrated in the CIM (Marine Research Center), a unique research centre located in Galicia, Spain.

He has a PhD in Earth Sciences and is currently a and he was the ANEP (Spanish Agency) coordinator of Earth Sciences and President of the Specialist Group focusing on the Physics of the Atmosphere and Ocean for the Royal Spanish Society of Physics. Professor Gimeno is well known as a world leader in research on the water cycle and how this is affected by climate change. His pioneering studies on the main sources of moisture for precipitation over the continents serve as the basis for the interpretation of observed and modelled changes for future climates. A principal investigator on more than 30 research projects, he has published more than 250 articles in international high impact scientific journals. The importance of his research has led to invitations from the most prestigious review journals to synthesize advances on the hydrological cycle, as the only researcher in the world to write invited feature articles by all the major journals in the field: Reviews of Geophysics, Annual Reviews of Environment and Resources, Earth Science Reviews, WIRES Climate Change, WIRES Water and Nature Reviews and Environment. He has developed extensive programmes related to the organization of international conferences and the hosting of international researchers, has been a member of 16 editorial committees of SCI journals, has edited 22 Special Issues for journals, and has supervised 16 doctoral students. Over the last decade, his research has focused on the atmospheric branch of the hydrological cycle, and it is in this area that he has achieved particular international renown.

Dr. Hugo Hidalgo

HUGO HIDALGO - Costa Rica

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Hugo Hidalgo is a professor in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department in the School of Physics of the University of Costa Rica.

He as a PhD in Civil and Envirnmental Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles and he is currently a hydrology professor and current director of the Center for Geophysical research in the University of Costa Rica. He is a member of the Costa Rica National Academy of Sciences. His research is focused on variability and climate change and impacts on the hydrology of Central America, with relevant contributions to the understanding of the Central American Dry Corridor. His research lines include surface hydrology, hydroclimatology, climate variability and climate change as well as paleoclimate and hydrological modeling. He received the Costa Rica national sciece award “Clodomiro Picado Twight” in 2018 for his contributions to understand regional climate variability and change and how they impact the hydrology of Central America. His careers also includes important contributions to the integration of societal impacts in the analysis of climate change in Central America. He is author of over 60 publications related to climate variability and change as well as drought analysis.

Dra. Rosalía Ibarra

ROSALIA IBARRA - México

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Rosalía Ibarra is a professor of Environmental Law at the Law Faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

She graduated in Law from National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with Honorable Mention and a PhD in Environmental Law from the Alicante University in Spain, where she graduated with outstanding grade LAUDE with the presentation of the thesis: The Clean Development Mechanism as a flexibility mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. Analysis of its implementation for sustainability" She has the Diploma of Advanced Studies with which he obtained the Recognition of Research Sufficiency by the University of Alicante Spain with research: "The emissions trading, an economic instrument applicable to climate change problem". Diploma in Environmental Law from the Madrid Bar Association. She was a legal advisor and intern at the Environmental Law Center (Environmental Law Centre – ELC) of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) in Bonn (Germany). She is member of the Institutional Research Line: "Energy". Member of the interdisciplinary institutional center: "Law, Society and Environment" and member of the Research Line of the University of Zaragoza, Spain: Water, Law and Environment "AGUDEMA" as well as member of the National System of Researchers, Level I and recognized by the UNAM with PRIDE Level C. She is collaborator with the Environmental Law Centre (ELC) of the IUCN within the framework of the project "Transforming Evidence into Change: A Holistic Approach to Governance for EbA- GO4EbA" and coordinator and collaborator of the Project "Governance and Normativity in the face of Climate Change at the National Autonomous University of Mexico", requested by the Climate Change Research Program (PINCC) of the UNAM. She is also coordinator of the Diploma "Climate Change Law and Governance", whose character is international and multidisciplinary, taught at the Institute of Legal Research of the UNAM.

Dra. Renata Libonati

RENATA LIBONATI - Brazil

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Renata Libonati is currently an assistant Professor with the Department of Meteorology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

She graduated in Geophysical Sciences (Meteorology) in 2005 and from the PhD program in Geophysical Sciences (Meteorology) at the Sciences Faculty of the University of Lisbon (Portugal). She is an assistant professor in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and part of the research team of the Forest Ecology Group from the Institute of Agronomy (Portugal) and of the Instituto Dom Luiz, University of Lisbon. She is currently core member of the WMO Expert Team on Climate Monitoring and Assessment (ET-CMA) and Associate Member of WMO Inter-Programme Expert Team on Satellite Use and Products (IPET-SUP). Her research activities have as a central theme the study of remote sensing of surface parameters, focusing on the development and validation of remote sensing algorithms for burned area mapping at regional and global scale, in the scope of climate sciences and ecosystem ecology investigating global change, land cover change and fire dynamics. She is currently funded by FAPERJ Young Scientist Fellowship and by CNPQ Productivity Grant. She has ample experience in the development, management and implementation of fire and climate research and applied science projects and has contributed to national and international projects (funded by EC, EUMETSAT, ESA, NASA, FAPESP, FAPERJ, CNPQ, CAPES). I have scientific partners in different institutions in Brazil, such as INPE, UFLA, UFSJ, UFRRJ, UERJ, UFRJ, CNCF/JBRJ, and firefighting divisions, and international institutions (USA, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, among others).

Dra. Gabriela Mora

GABRIELA MORA - Costa Rica

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Gabriela Mora is an associate professor in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department, University of Costa Rica.

is a Costa Rican professor from the School of Physics at the University of Costa Rica. She earned her BSc. in Meteorology from the University of Costa Rica; and a MSc. and PhD in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University, USA. She is also a research member of the Center for Geophysical Research of the University of Costa Rica. She currently teaches atmosphere-related undergraduate and graduate courses at the School of Physics, University of Costa Rica. She has participated in research and publications about the theoretical aspects of some low-level flows in the tropics, as well as other elements of tropical dynamics, main mechanisms and interactions, and ocean-atmosphere interaction. She has also worked on the evaluation of reanalysis data as an input for applied modeling studies and is currently working on its application for the understanding of regional scale dynamics in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.

Dra. Raquel Nieto

RAQUEL NIETO - Spain

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Raquel Nieto is an associate professor in are of Earth Physics in the University of Vigo, Spain.

Raquel Nieto has a PhD in Atmospheric Physics (2005) and is part of the Environmental Physics Laboratory (EphysLab), a "research excellence" group by Xunta-Galicia, integrated in one of its Singular Groups and also an CSIC Associated Unit.Her scientific, teaching and professional career has always been linked to atmospheric and climate sciences, to climate change and its impacts, and in recent years to the consequences of climate extremes on human health. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Univ. of Lisbon in the Geophysics group (Portugal). During 2015-18 she was a Distinguished Visiting Researcher at the Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil, joining the IAG, under the "Ciencias sem Fronteiras" programme by the CNPq/MCTI Brazil Government. She is internationally recognised in two lines of research that form part of her scientific career, and for which she has been awarded by the two most prestigious European geophysical and meteorological societies: the European Meteorological Society (EMS) and the European Geophysical Union (EGU). In 2009 she was awarded the EMS Young Scientist Award for the publication "Identification and climatology of Cut-off Lows near the Tropopause" in Annals of the NY Academy of Science. In the last decade, her contributions to the knowledge of the water cycle in the atmosphere have also achieved special international notoriety. This topic is fundamental to understanding and justifying the predictions of mean and extreme precipitation included in the IPCC reports. In 2011 she received the EGU Outstanding Young Scientist Award for her contribution to atmospheric sciences in understanding the atmospheric branch of the hydrological cycle. A key consideration within her work is the analysis of the role of major moisture transport mechanisms, such as atmospheric rivers and low-level jets. She is currently researching fundamental aspects of the hydrological cycle and its climatic implications, addressing key questions such as (i) whether climate change implies an increase in oceanic versus terrestrial precipitation, (ii) whether atmospheric rivers are transporting increasing amounts of moisture and whether this is consistent with basic thermodynamic principles linked to climate change, or (iii) the role of atmospheric water vapour residence time as a metric of the global hydrological cycle and its implications for the study of climate change.

Dra. Paulina Ordóñez

PAULINA ORDOÑEZ - México

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Paulina Ordoñez is currently a research climatologist at the UNAM Atmospheric Science and Climate Change Institute in Mexico.

She graduated in Physics from the University of Córdoba and from the PhD program in Earth Physics at the Pablo de Olavide University in Spain. Her work is focused on the identification of the origin of the water available for precipitation in a region and the understanding of physical mechanisms for drought occurrence. Her research activities are also centred on the analysis of climate variability and extreme climate events. Her interests include the impacts of climate change on different natural and socioeconomical sectors.

MSc. Paula Pérez

PAULA PEREZ - Costa Rica

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Paula M. Pérez-Briceño is a professor of Geography and associate researcher in the Center for Geophysical Research in the University of Costa Rica.

Paula M. Pérez-Briceño is a professor from the School of Geography and an Associate researcher at the Center for Geophysical Research at the University of Costa Rica. She is also a professor from Hydrological Engineering at Chorotega Headquarters, and Academic researcher at Interdisciplinary Costal Program from the Institute of Studies of Population at National University of Costa Rica. Pérez-Briceño has a master's degree from the University of Costa Rica focus on Integrated Tropical Coastal Management and has more than 10 articles in hydrometeorological impacts and coastal geomorphology, and she works with Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Dr. Dominic Royé

DOMINIC ROYE - Spain

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Dominic Royé is a postdoc in the department of Geography at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Dominic Royé graduated in Geography and Hispanic Philology from the University of Cologne and RWTH Aachen University in 2010. He obtained his PhD in physical geography from the University of Santiago de Compostela in June 2015 with the thesis entitled ‘Relationship between human health and the thermal environment in the main cities of Galicia’, which was awarded Cum Laude. He has made several international, and national pre- and pos-doctoral research stay at different universities (University of Kiel, University of Porto, University of Cantabria, University of Barcelona, University of Florence). Since 2019 he is member of the Multi-City Multi-Country Collaborative Research network focusing international research on the associations between environmental stressors, climate and health. His research revolves around the relationship between the environment and human health. In particular, he has addressed the question of the effects of the thermal environment on mortality and morbidity, which constitutes a significant problem in the context of global change. Besides, he focuses on atmospheric variables and their spatio-temporal behaviour. All of his research is characterized by the use of current data science with high-level understanding of quantitative and computational geographical methods, statistics and the programming language R. Thus, interdisciplinarity is central to his whole research. Moreover, he has participated in 14 research projects, including two international and European ones (e.g. Cost Action 15211). He is currently the principal investigator of two research project supported by the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Xunta de Galicia. Since 2011, he has been the author of 40 articles in many journals, such as Nature Climate Change. Nature Communications, Lancet Planetary Health, Epidemiology, Atmospheric Research, International Journal of Climatology. He has also written 2 books and 11 book chapters (2 in Springer and Elsevier), both in collaboration

Dra. Ana Russo

ANA RUSSO - Portugal

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Ana Russo is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.

She has published in complementary areas of research, namely focusing on the evaluation of different types of weather-driven natural hazards, with particular emphasis to droughts, heatwaves and wildfires. She devoted particular attention on how these extreme events and also how climate change scenarios may alter their frequency or amplitude and impacts at different levels. Additionally, she is also interested on the impact of climate variability, weather patterns and extremes on air quality and human life.Ana Russo has participated as team member in several national (QSeca, CIDMeg, BioAridRisk) and international EU funded projects (IMDROFLOOD, FUME, SinesBioAr). As from 2018 she is PI and CO-PI of IMPECAF and ROADMAP projects, which aim to enhance the knowledge on extreme hydro-meteorological events and how they affect agriculture, forests and how they interact. Since 2019, she is the co-coordinator of the RG1 – Climate change, atmosphere-land-ocean processes and extremes group (http://idl.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/idlteamshowcase/rg1-climate-change-atmosphere-land-ocean-processes-and-extremes/ )

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CORAL SALVADOR - Spain

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Coral Salvador is a posdoctoral researcher in the University of Vigo in Spain and an expert in statistics applied to health sciences.

She is a visiting researcher in the Climate Change and Health group at the ISPM in the University of Bern. Her research in centred in the evaluation of climate and environmental events that affect human health, focusing on those linked with impacts on vulnerable groups (children, elderly and pregnant women). Her work includes the gender perspective and her current research is based on the the study of key social factors relevant to health in order to consider the different response of environmental impacts linked to variables such as age, gender, income, education level, ethnic group among others. She received the Tromp Foundation award for young scientists in Biometeorology and the Salgado Alba prize in 2018.

Dra. Santiago Salvador

SANTIAGO SALVADOR - Portugal

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Santiago Salvador is currently a visiting postdoctoral researcher with the Centre for Research in Public Law, Faculty of Law of University of Lisbon.

Santiago Salvador holds a Law degree from the University Complutense of Madrid and a PhD with International Mention in Marine Science, Technology and Management. He is a visiting postdoc at the Center for Research in Public Law and is also part of the research team of Ephyslab Group from the University of Vigo (Spain). He has also conducted research visits in the Law Faculty of the University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain), and in the Law Faculty of the University of Porto (Portugal). His research focuses on the study of the legal mechanisms of mitigation and adaptation to climate change, renewable energies, climate litigation as well as climate-induced displacements. Based on this, Santiago has participated in international and national Conferences, has taught and published papers in relation to these topics and has contributed to national and international in international and national projects.

MSc. Lorena Soriano

LORENA SORIANO - El Salvador

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Lorena Soriano is the coordinator of the meteorological forecast of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resoruces of El Salvador.

She is a meteorologist with a MSc in Operational Meteorology and is the coordinator of the meteorological forecast area at MARN. She is also a professor of atmospheric sciences and meteorology in the University of El Salvador. She has participated during more than 20 years in different projects related to the improvement of Meteorology in El Salvador, including WRN, Weather Ready Nations/NWS/NOAA. She is a Pioneer in the use of the Guide for sudden flooding CAFFG as part of the National Weather Service, NWS and NOAA, and contributed to the operative use of the mentioned tools. She is an active participant in the lightning network with support from AEMET/AECID and Euroclima +. She has a long-term experience tracking cyclonic systems affecting El Salvador and is an active member in the regional meteorological community. Among her participations in several workshops, trainings and meetings, her participation in the Second Conference on the Role of Women in Meteorology and Hydrology is highlighted.

Dra. Ana Vicedo

ANA VICEDO - Switzerland

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Ana Vicedo is a senior researcher in the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of Bern in Switzerland.

Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera is an environmental epidemiologist with expertise in climate change and health. She is leading the Climate change and Health - EpiClimLab group at ISPM, an interdisciplinary group that is part of the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, also at the University of Bern. She was asistant professor in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine en Londres and posdoctoral researcher in the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Insitute (Basel) and in the University of Umea in Sweden. Her career has been focused on environmental epidemiology and the impact of environmental factors such as climate and pollution on human health, within the framework of climate change. She has participated and led a vast number of studies in national and international groups on the above mentioned topics which are part of more than 50 published papers. Her current research lines revolve around the evaluation of mitigation and adaptation measures based on the projected impact as well as studies of detection and attribution, compound events and urban health. She is contributor in different book chapters focused on the impact of high temperatures, from which the book "Heat and health in the WHO region: updated evidence for effective prevention", edited by the World Health Organization (2021) is highlighted. She is autor of the Sixth IPCC report, work group 2, chapter 16.

ACTIVITIES

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Climate Change: Science and impacts

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The series of seminars Climate Change: Science and impacts focused on different aspects of climate change, from the physical basis to impacts on health and drought assessment. The 2021 series was conducted in Spanish with the interest of reducing the language barrier. The full lectures can be accessed at https://www.facebook.com/CIGEFI/

CONTACT

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