Fitxa persona

Graduated in Physics from the Universitat de València (1992), with Extraordinary Award and First National Prize for Completion of Studies in Physics, and PhD in Physics from the Universitat de València (1997). He is currently Full Professor of Earth Physics in the Departament de Física de la Terra i Termodinàmica of the Facultat de Física.

He has published 67 articles in indexed journals (48 of them in the first quartile of their respective categories), with 3,980 citations, an h-index of 29 and an I100 index of 8 (WoS). His scientific output averages 120 citations per year (240 citations per year over the last ten years) and an average of 5 authors per publication. He holds four six-year research evaluation periods (“sexenios”). In 2010 he received the Norbert Gerbier Award granted by the World Meteorological Organization.

His main research lines include the measurement of land surface temperature and emissivity from satellite data, their use for surface characterization, and the monitoring of climate change processes through the analysis of time series of these parameters. He has participated in 39 research projects funded by European, national and regional programs, acting as principal investigator in 7 of them. In addition, he has carried out knowledge transfer activities to the productive sector through agreements with companies.

Throughout his career as a university lecturer, he has taught Physics in the Degree in Chemistry; Meteorology and Climatology in the Degree in Environmental Sciences; and Computer Techniques, Thermodynamics, General Physics and Atmospheric Physics in the Degree in Physics. He has also served as director of the University Certificate in the Study of Water Pollution through Remote Sensing (5 courses) and of the University Certificate in Industrial and Environmental Applications of Remote Temperature Measurement (6 courses). He holds five five-year teaching evaluation periods (“quinquenios”).

He has co-supervised five PhD theses, 10 Master’s theses (TFM) and 16 Bachelor’s theses (TFG). He has held several academic management positions, including Secretary of the Faculty of Physics (2006–2012), Vice-Dean for Institutional Relations, Quality and Double Degrees (2018–2021), and Vice-Dean for Studies (2021–2024). Since March 2024, he has been Dean of the Faculty of Physics.