María del Carmen Llasat Botija is a full professor at the Department of Applied Physics of the University of Barcelona (UB). PhD in Physical Sciences from the UB, her research focuses on the study of natural risks of meteorological origin and the impact of climate change on them, as well as the improvement of citizen awareness and resilience in the face of extreme events. She directs the Group of Analysis of Adverse Weather Situations, GAMA, with which she also carries out a relevant dissemination activity, forming part of the UB's Dissemination Commission. She coordinates the Meteorology Research Group of the University of Barcelona and is secretary of the Department of Applied Physics.
She is currently member of the steering committees of the HYMEX and MedECC programs and the scientific committees of the OPCC and the Adour-Garonne Agency, among others. She also participates in other international committees such as Panta Rhei Working Group 'Changes in Flood Risk of IAHS. She was president of the Natural Hazards Section of the European Geophysical Society, editor-in-chief of Natural Hazards and Earth System Science journal, and international coordinator of the Heavy Rains working group of the AMHY / FRIEND UNESCO program. She currently leads the Social Impact group of the international HYMEX project and is on the editorial board of several scientific journals. She has participated in over eighty research projects and in the review of numerous national and international scientific works and projects, including the last three reports of the IPCC. She has published about 200 articles (a hundred in indexed journals) and book chapters. Besides to teach in the degree of Physics, the European Masters of Meteorology and the Master of Science and Integral Water Management, she is co-coordinator of the Master of Climatology Applied and Media of the UB. She has directed sixteen doctoral theses and about fifty postgraduate research works.
Her main research fields are:
1.- Hydrometeorological hazards, risk assessment and risk awareness, social impact and perception
2.- Climate change, impact of climatic change on natural hazards, trends and anomalies, seasonal forecasting
3. - Rate of rainfall, extreme rainfall events, floods and spates, applications of meteorological radar, convective precipitation, hydrometeorological applications and nowcasting.
4- Agrometeorology, hydric balance, forest fires, droughts, meteorological networks, calibration, quality control, remote sensing
