About me

Currently, I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow 🇪🇺 in the Blas Cabrera Institute of Physical Chemistry (IQF), which is part of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). I work in the group of Prof. Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, focusing on the atmospheric chemistry of the toxic pollutant mercury (Hg). I am interested in refining the global mercury budget using observational constraints and an array of data analysis tools — box models, chemistry-transport models, and statistical models.

Before joining IQF-CSIC, I was a SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellow in the group of Prof. Noelle Selin at MIT. There I began my foray into mercury modelling, including using GEOS-Chem to analyze the uptake of gaseous mercury by the terrestrial biosphere and recent trends in atmospheric mercury concentrations.

I did my PhD (defended virtually in 2020) at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (with Prof. Thomas Peter) and the Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics at ETH Zurich (with Prof. Lenny Winkel), where I was also affiliated with the aquatic research institute Eawag. My PhD project was about the biogeochemical cycles of sulfur and selenium: two elements with analogous chemical behaviour and substantial impacts on ecosystems and health.

I hold a MSc in Atmospheric and Climate Science from ETH Zurich (2016), with my MSc thesis focused on modelling atmospheric methane isotopes. I graduated from McGill University in 2014 with a BSc (Honours) in Chemistry and a Minor in Mathematics.