Xavier Rodó

Xavier Rodó (Terrassa, 1965), ICREA Research Professor, was founding director of the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences (IC3) in Barcelona and former head of the Climate Research Laboratory at the PCB (University of Barcelona, UB). He currently leads the CLIMA Program in ISGlobal. His background is in numerical ecology, climate dynamics and the understanding/detection/simulation of climate impacts, as well as topics central to climate dynamics, such as the origin and teleconnections of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, and the predictability and role of climate variability in greenhouse gases. He also participated in atmospheric chemistry studies and was responsible for setting the first network of climate change stations in Spain (www.climadat.es).