BIO
José Manuel Gutiérrez is a Research Professor and Director of the Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), run jointly by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Cantabria, which he joined after serving as associate professor and chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the latter institution. His research interest lies in regional climate, including regional projections of climate change scenarios. A Coordinating Lead Author of the “Atlas of Global and Regional Climate Change” chapter of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report and a Point of Contact for the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) of the World Climate Research Programme, he has authored over a hundred papers in high-impact journals, is co-author of two books on data mining methods and has been a visiting professor at the National University of Patagonia Austral and the University of Oxford.
