About
Short Bio
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), based at the Desertification Research Centre (CIDE, CSIC-UV-GVA) in Valencia, where I work within the DOWNBURST project on the detection, physical processes, and climate change attribution of extreme convective wind gusts. From September 2026 I will continue at CIDE as a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow (JDC2024-055355-I).
My research focuses on severe convection and its links to climate change — supercells, hail, convectively-driven extreme wind gusts, and tropical-like cyclones over the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. I combine convection-permitting numerical simulations (HARMONIE-AROME, WRF-ARW), reanalysis-based ingredients diagnostics, and pseudo-global warming experiments to quantify how anthropogenic climate change is reshaping high-impact convective weather.
I hold an International PhD in Physics — Meteorology from the University of Valladolid (October 2024), funded by an FPI fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science. I am co-founder of the Spanish Supercell and Hail citizen science project, which collects reports of supercells and large hail across Spain to bridge observational gaps and study how severe storm dynamics are evolving in a warming world.
Research Interests
- Severe convection: supercells, large hail, convective wind gusts
- Climate change attribution of high-impact weather events
- Tropical and subtropical transitions in the North Atlantic
- Mediterranean cyclones and Medicanes
- Convection-permitting numerical weather prediction (HARMONIE-AROME, WRF)
- Pseudo-global warming methodologies
- Citizen science for severe weather observations
Current Position
Postdoctoral Researcher · since September 2025
Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE, CSIC-UV-GVA), Valencia, Spain
DOWNBURST project — PROMETEO Grant CIPROM/2023/38 (Generalitat Valenciana)
Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow · from September 2026
Spanish Ministry of Science (Ref: JDC2024-055355-I)
Previous Positions
| Period | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2024 – Aug 2025 | FPI Postdoctoral Researcher (POP stage) | Univ. of Valladolid — Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Segovia |
| Sep 2021 – Oct 2024 | FPI Predoctoral Researcher | Univ. of Valladolid — Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Segovia |
| Feb 2020 – May 2020 | Intern | AEMET — Cataluña delegation, Barcelona |
Research Stays
| Period | Centre | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Mar – Apr 2026 | Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN), Buenos Aires, Argentina | Downburst detection algorithms in radar data |
| Dec 2025 – Mar 2026 | Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC), Zaragoza | Climate change attribution of the 2024 Valencia floods |
| Nov 2024 – Feb 2025 | Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE-CSIC), Valencia | Climate change attribution of the 2024 Valencia floods |
| Sep – Dec 2023 | National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, USA | Secondary circulation in the tropical transition of Hurricane Ophelia |
| Dec 2022 – Feb 2023 | Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET), Madrid | Sub-km HARMONIE-AROME simulations |
Education
International PhD in Physics — Meteorology · University of Valladolid · 2024
Thesis on tropical transitions in the North Atlantic and numerical modelling.
MSc in Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing · University of Zaragoza · 2021
MSc in Meteorology · University of Barcelona · 2020
BSc in Geography and Spatial Planning · University of Zaragoza · 2019
Teaching & Supervision
University Teaching
Approximately 90 hours of teaching practice at the University of Valladolid — Campus María Zambrano (Segovia, Spain).
- Estadística, Sistemas de Información y Nuevas Tecnologías — Academic years 2023/24, 2024/25
- Cálculo de Probabilidades y Estadística — Academic years 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25
PhD Supervision
- Pablo Gómez-Plasencia — Tropical cyclones from tropical transitions impacting the North Atlantic: dynamic analysis and risk evaluation under future climate. Co-supervised with Dr. J. J. González-Alemán & Dra. M. L. Martín. Ongoing — expected defence 2027.
- PhD student to be hired under the Santiago Grisolia fellowship. Co-supervised with Dr. César Azorín-Molina. Expected start October 2026.
MSc Supervision
- U. Intxausti Montoro — Análisis del papel de la orografía en las inundaciones asociadas a la DANA del 29 de octubre de 2024. Co-supervised with Dr. M. Sastre Marugan & Dra. M. L. Martín. Expected defence June 2026.
Languages
Spanish (native) · English (full professional proficiency) · Italian (basic)
Memberships
- Spanish Climatological Society (AEC) — since 2015
- European Geosciences Union (EGU) — since 2018
- American Geophysical Union (AGU) — since 2023
- Spanish Meteorological Association (AME) — since 2025
Contact
carlos.calvo@csic.es · CIDE-CSIC, Ctra. Moncada-Náquera km 4.5, 46113 Moncada (Valencia), Spain
You can also reach me through any of the social links at the bottom of this page.
Last updated: April 2026. Download CV (PDF)