Montse Costa Surós, PhD in Experimental Sciences and Sustainability (University of Girona, 2014), graduated in Environmental Sciences (Environmental Sciences and Technology branch) in 2005 and completed a Master's Degree in Environment (Environmental Physics and Technology itinerary) in 2008-2009.
Nowadays, she is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Barcelona Supercomputing Center in the Atmospheric Composition group (Environmental Sciences Department) investigating aerosol-cloud interactions and their implications for the Earth's radiative balance in the context of global climate change. She participates actively in the European Projects CERTAINTY (Cloud-aERosol inTeractions & their impActs IN The earth sYstem), FOCI (Non-CO2 Forcers and their Climate, Weather, Air Quality and Health Impacts) and the Spanish Project Biota (Ocean BIOgeochemistry response To refined Atmospheric iron inputs in present and future climate). Moreover, she combines her work as an investigator with teaching «Meteorology and Climatology» a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Sciences and dual Bachelor's Degree in Biology / Environmental Sciences students.
Her research experience in climate modeling (2021-2023: BSC STARS MSCA-COFUND (SupercompuTing And Related applicationS Fellows Programme) postdoctoral fellow, European Projects FORCeS (Constrained aerosol forcing for improved climate projections) and FRAGMENT (FRontiers in dust minerAloGical coMposition and its Effects upoN climaTe)), aerosols and clouds remote sensing, meteorology and climatology comes from several European Universities (University of Girona 2008-2014, University of Warsaw (Poland) 2014-2016, University of Cologne (Germany) 2016-2020), and from national (NUCLIEREX, NUCLIERSOL, NUBESOL-II) and international (High Definition Clouds and Precipitation for Climate Prediction (HD(CP)2), ESA-Multiply, Integrated study of climate processes involving absorbing aerosols) projects. Moreover, she has also been working in Climate Data Quality Control for Copernicus Climate Change Services (C3S), the largest Climate Data repository in Europe.