Donat, Markus G.

Short biography

I am a Meteorologist by training, and obtained my PhD in Meteorology and Climatology at the Freie Universität Berlin in June 2010. Between 2011 and 2018 I held postdoctoral positions and fellowships at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where I focused my research on developing a robust understanding of how different types of climatic extremes are changing in observations and climate model simulations. In 2018 I moved to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where I am co-leading the Climate Prediction Group and have been a Ramón y Cajal Fellow since 2019. I have been appointed as ICREA Research Professor in February 2022. Recognitions of my scientific achievements include being awarded the World Climate Research Program and Global Climate Observing System International Data Prize in 2017, and the AXA Climate Award in 2021.