Ice-flow modelling
Numerical modelling of glacier and ice-sheet dynamics over different temporal and spatial scales.
Research
Numerical modelling, field observations, and remote sensing across Patagonia, Greenland, and Antarctica.
Numerical modelling of glacier and ice-sheet dynamics over different temporal and spatial scales.
Ice-ocean, ice-atmosphere, and ice-solid Earth interactions, paleoclimatology, and climate change.
Glacier hydrology, Patagonian ice fields, Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, GLOFs, and glacier-related hazards.
Assistant Professor, Department of Geophysics, University of Concepción, Chile.
Post-doctoral researcher, Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany, funded by a DFG Individual Research Grant.
Post-doctoral researcher and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Institute of Geography, FAU, Germany.
Post-doctoral researcher, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain.
Doctorate in Physics, Complutense University of Madrid. Thesis: The role of ice-ocean interactions in the past evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Master in Physics of Environment and Advanced Technologies, University of Torino, Italy. Grade: 110/110 cum Laude.
Bachelor in Physics, University of Torino, Italy. Grade: 108/110.
PROPAGEMOS — Projecting the Patagonian Icefields mass loss in the future. FONDECYT Iniciación, ANID Chile. Principal Investigator.
RESPONSE — Regional-scale ice-flow modelling in Patagonia since the Little Ice Age. DFG Individual Research Grant. Principal Investigator.
SURFYNG — Improving surface mass balance and hydrology representation at Northeast Greenland. Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship.
Post-doctoral and pre-doctoral fellowships from the Spanish National Programme for the Promotion of Talent and Its Employability.
EGU Early Career Scientist Travel Grant and ERASMUS+ Traineeship grant.
Current and past supervision includes PhD, MSc, and Bachelor theses at Universidad de Concepción, FAU, and UCM.
Paul Sandoval — PhD in Environmental Engineering.
Raul Correa — MSc in Geophysics, Universidad de Concepción.
Mañio Zúñiga — MSc in Geophysics, Universidad de Concepción.
Bastian Espinoza — MSc in Geophysics, Universidad de Concepción.
Maria Schliermann — MSc thesis in Oceanography, Universidad de Concepción: Impacto del océano en el derretimiento submarino de glaciares en sistemas de fiordos de Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego.
Maria Schliermann — Bachelor thesis in Physical Geography, FAU: Water-Glacier Interaction in Cordillera Darwin — Water mass characterisation and GLOFs.
Jacob Alberto García Suárez — Master thesis in Meteorology and Geophysics, UCM: The Evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet under Global Warming.
Visiting scientist at UCM, Spain, and FAU, Germany; participant in Taller Lidera Mujeres en la Academia.
Visiting scientist at FAU, Germany.
Visiting scientist at Universidad Austral de Chile and Universidad de Concepción; Greenland Ice Sheet Stability Workshop, Bergen; Northeast Greenland Workshop, Aarhus.
Training in Elmer/Ice, CESM, paleoclimate, glacier surface mass balance, coupled climate-ice-sheet models, glacial dynamics, and Karthaus Ice and Climate summer school.
VII SOCHICRI Congress, poster on GLOF detection and analysis at Almena Glacier, Cordillera Darwin.
SCAR XI Open Science Conference, oral presentation on modelling the Southern Patagonia Icefield at the end of the Little Ice Age; EGU poster on GLOF events at Alemania Glacier.
AGU invited talk and EGU presentations on Northeast Greenland stability, surface processes, basal hydrology, and ice dynamics.
EGU and PAGES contributions on Greenland Ice Sheet-ocean interactions, Holocene thinning, and continental-scale ice-sheet model optimisation.
HPN4 Glacier fieldwork; North Patagonia oceanographic campaign with bathymetry measurements and CTD casts.
Monitoring of the Chillán volcanic complex glacier, including annual mass-balance work.
Rock glacier campaign in Nevado Valley, Chile, with geophysical measurements.
Pío XI Glacier campaign, Southern Patagonian Icefield: exploration, ablation stakes, and air-temperature sensor installation.
Mocho-Choshuenco Glacier, Kanderfirn Glacier in the Swiss Alps, and exploration in Cordillera Darwin.
I review for journals including Nature Geoscience, The Cryosphere, Journal of Glaciology, Climate of the Past, Geophysics, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, and PLOS One.
Outreach activities include glacier conservation webinars, public talks, media participation, the event “Sin hielo no hay frappé”, the podcast EpiSTEMas, the EGU Cryosphere Blog, and fact-checking contributions.
Member of faculty and scientific commissions including work on coexistence, gender and inclusion, and IGS retention and new members.