Fernando

I am a climate scientist with a strong interest in developing and applying machine learning techniques to advance climate models and analysis, understanding links and interactions with other parts of the Earth system to address the scientific challenges of global change.

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Research associate at the Earth System Model Evaluation and Analysis Department
Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. DLR)
German Aerospace Center
Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IPA)
Oberpfaffenhofen, Muenchener Strasse 20, 82234 Wessling, Germany
Telephone: +49-8153-28-2628 | Email: Fernando.Iglesias-Suarez@dlr.de
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Research

I am Research Associate of the Earth System Model Evaluation and Analysis Department, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Within the “Understanding and Modelling the Earth System with Machine Learning (USMILE)” project, I am focused on developing new methods and approaches via combining causal discovery and deep learning to eliminate long-standing systematic errors in climate models and to provide more robust climate projections.

Education

2017 PhD Atmospheric Science, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. Dissertation: Stratospheric ozone in the Earth system. Supervisors: Dr Paul J. Young and Prof Oliver Wild. doi:10.17635/lancaster/thesis/308
2011 MSc Climate Change, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, UK. Dissertation: Investigating geoengineering solutions to meet the 2ºC target. Supervisors: Dr Naomi Vaughan and Prof Timothy Osborn.
2004 BSc Environmental Science, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain.

Research and employment

2019– Research Associate, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
2017–2019 Research Associate, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain.
2016 Research Associate, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, UK.
2012 Research Assistant, Centro de Investigação em Gestão, Lisbon, Portugal.
2005–2010 Environmental Officer, Comisiones Obreras de Andalucia, Seville, Spain.
2004 Undergraduate Research Assistant, AIMCRA, Seville, Spain.

Awards and honours

2016 Award Winner for Best Presentation at the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) Student Conference, Manchester, UK.
2015 Award of Excellence, Community Earth System Model Tutorial, Boulder, CO, US.
2015 Visiting PhD student, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, US.
2011 Best Debate in ‘Understanding climate change in society’, UEA, Norwich, UK.

Professional service and activities

2020– Member of ELLIS society, Postdoc Program, Germany/Spain.
2018– Early Career Scientists representative, European Geosciences Union (EGU) Atmospheric Science (AS) Division.
2016– Member of Voice of Young Science, Sense about Science, UK.
2016–2018 Early Career Scientists team representative EGU AS Division.
2013–2017 Meteorological observer, Hazelrigg Weather Station, Met Office, Lancaster, UK.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (Google scholar)

Behrens, G., Beucler, T., Iglesias-Suarez, F., Sungduk, Y., Gentine, P., Pritchard, M., Schwabe, M. and Eyring, V.: Improving Atmospheric Processes in Earth System Models with Deep Learning Ensembles and Stochastic Parameterizations. Under review in JAMES, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2402.03079
Yu, S., Hannah, W. M., Peng, L., Bhouri, M. A., Gupta, R., Lin, J., LÃ¼tje, B.,Will, J. C., Beucler, T., Harrop, B. E., Hillman, B. R., Jenney, A. M., Ferretti, S. L., Liu, N., Anandkumar, A., Brenowitz, N. D., Eyring, V., Gentine, P., Mandt, S., Pathak, J., Vondrick, C., Yu, R., Zanna, L., Abernathey, R. P., Ahmed, F., Bader, D. C., Baldi, P., Barnes, E. A., Behrens, G., Bretherton, C. S., Busecke, J. J. L., Caldwell, P. M., Chuang, W., Han, Y., Huang, Y., Iglesias-Suarez, F., Jantre, S., Kashinath, K., Khairoutdinov, M., Kurth, T., Lutsko, N. J., Ma, P.-L., Mooers, G., Neelin, J. D., Randall, D. A., Shamekh, S., Subramaniam, A., Taylor, M. A., Urban, N. M., Yuval, J., Zhang, G. J., Zheng, T., and Pritchard, M. S.: ClimSim: An open large-scale dataset for training high-resolution physics emulators in hybrid multi-scale climate simulators, Thirty-seventh Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.08754, 2023
Saiz-Lopez A., Fernandez R. P., Li Q., Cuevas C. A., Fu X., Kinnison D. E., Tilmes S., Mahajan A. S., Gomez Martin J. C., Iglesias-Suarez, F., Hossaini R., Plane J. M. C., Myhre G., and Lamarque J.-F.: Natural short-lived halogens exert an indirect cooling effect on climate. Nature, doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06119-z, 2023
Villamayor J., Iglesias-Suarez, F., Cuevas C. A., Fernandez R. P., Li Q., Abalos M., Hossaini R., Chipperfield M. P., Kinnison D. E., Tilmes S., Lamarque J.-F., and Saiz-Lopez A.: Very short-lived halogens amplify ozone depletion trends in the tropical lower stratosphere. Nat. Clim. Chang., doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01671-y, 2023
Iglesias-Suarez, F., Gentine, P., Solino-Fernandez, B., Beucler, T., Pritchard, M., Runge, J., and Eyring, V.: Causally-informed deep learning to improve climate models and projections. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 129, e2023JD039202, doi:10.1029/2023JD039202, 2024
Grundner, A., Beucler, T., Gentine, P., Iglesias-Suarez, F., Giorgetta, M. A., and Eyring, V.: Deep Learning Based Cloud Cover Parameterization for ICON. JAMES, 14, e2021MS002959, doi:10.1029/2021MS002959, 2022
Behrens, G., Beucler, T., Gentine, P., Iglesias-Suarez, F., Pritchard, M. and Eyring, V.: Non-Linear Dimensionality Reduction With a Variational Encoder Decoder to Understand Convective Processes in Climate Models. JAMES, 14, e2022MS003130, doi:10.1029/2022MS003130, 2022
Li, Q., Fernandez, R. P., Hossaini, R., Iglesias-Suarez, F., Cuevas, C. A., Apel, E. C., Kinnison, D. E., Lamarque, J.-F., and Saiz-Lopez, A.: Reactive halogens increase the global methane lifetime and radiative forcing in the 21st century. Nat. Commun., doi:10.1038/s41467-022-30456-8, 2022
Badia, A., Iglesias-Suarez, F., Fernandez, R. P., Cuevas, C. A., Kinnison, D. E., Lamarque, J.-F., Griffiths, P. T. , Tarasick, D. W., and Saiz-Lopez, A.: The Role of Natural Halogens in Global Tropospheric Ozone Chemistry and Budget Under Different 21st Century Climate Scenarios. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., e2021JD034859, doi:10.1029/2021JD034859, 2021
Iglesias-Suarez, F., Wild, O., Kinnison, D. E., Garcia, R. R., Marsh, D. R., Lamarque, J.-F., Ryan, E. M., Davis, S. M., Eichinger, R., Saiz-Lopez, A., and Young, P. J.: Tropical Stratospheric Circulation and Ozone Coupled to Pacific Multi-Decadal Variability. Geophys. Res. Lett, 48(11), e2020GL092162, doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092162, 2021
Iglesias-Suarez, F., Badia, A., Fernandez, R. P., Cuevas, C. A., Kinnison, D. E., Tilmes, S., Lamarque, J.-F., Long, M. C., Hossaini, R., and Saiz-Lopez, A.: Natural halogens buffer tropospheric ozone in a changing climate. Nat. Clim. Chang., doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0675-6, 2020
Barrera, J. A., Fernandez, R. P., Iglesias-Suarez, F., Cuevas, C. A., Lamarque, J.-F., and Saiz-Lopez, A.: Seasonal impact of biogenic VSL bromine on the evolution of mid-latitude lowermost stratospheric ozone during the 21st century. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 8083-8102, doi: 10.5194/acp-20-8083-2020, 2020
Yumashev, D., Hope, C., Schaefer, K., Riemann-Campe, K., Iglesias-Suarez, F., Jafarov, E., Burke, E. J., Young, P. J., Elshorbany, Y., and Whiteman, G.: Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements. Nat. Commun., 10, 1900, doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09863-x, 2019
Iglesias-Suarez, F., Kinnison, D. E., Rap, A., Wild, O., and Young, P. J.: Key drivers of ozone change and its radiative forcing over the 21st century. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 6121-6139, doi:10.5194/acp-18-6121-2018, 2018
Iglesias-Suarez, F., Young, P. J., and Wild, O.: Stratospheric ozone change and related climate impacts over 1850–2100 as modelled by the ACCMIP ensemble. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 343-363, doi:10.5194/acp-16-343-2016, 2016
Iglesias-Suarez, F.: Investigating geoengineering solutions to meet the 2ºC target. IBER Journal, 5, 87-108, ISSN:1647-1989, 2014

Non-peer reviewed articles

Iglesias-Suarez, F.: El Ártico, un termómetro para el cambio climático. The Conversation (Spain), ISSN:2201-5639, 2019