I am a Mexican student leveraging space-tech for improving life on Earth.
Work Experience
Researcher at INAR, University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
Retrieving cloud base updraft (CBU) velocities with the combined use of Doppler-Radar and LIDAR ceilometer measurements from Hyytiälä Forestry Field Station. Supervisors: Dr. Dmitri Moisseev & Dr. Tuomo Nieminen.
R&D Intern at Whiffle
Delft, The Netherlands
Development of an in situ stereophotogrammetry system for cloud base height (CBH) estimation with a pair of self-built sky cameras using Raspberry Pis and Python-OpenCV for image processing. The results were validated against a lidar ceilometer and achieved an accuracy of 90% for low-level cloud CBH estimations. Supervisor: Dr. Remco Verzijlbergh.
Intern at the Lunar & Planetary Institute
Virtual (COVID)
Unfortunately the onsite research experience was cancelled. However, we engaged and participated in virtual scientific and personal development seminars with interns, mentors, and accredited scientists from NASA and the LPI based in Houston, TX.
Research Assistant at ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Kickstarted a project on atmospheric biogeochemistry, relevant for cloud formation over marine regions. Overall work was carried out in a microbiology lab. Data analysis was performed in Python and MATLAB. Supervisors: Dr. Nadine Borduas-Dedekind and Dr. Jeanette Wheeler.
Intern at UNAM Cosmic Rays group
Mexico City, Mexico
Data processing and identification of biases and differences in the records of two data acquisition systems of the Cosmic Ray Observatory using Python in a Linux OS. Supervisor: Dr. José Francisco Valdés Galicia.
Education
Copernicus Master in Digital Earth
Universität Salzburg & Université Bretagne Sud
Two year full-time, fully-funded Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Programme in Geoinformatics specialized in Geodata Science and Artificial Intelligence in Salzburg, Austria and Vannes, France.
Earth Sciences BSc
University of Pécs (Pécsi Tudományegyetem)
Three year full-time, fully-funded Stipendium Hungaricum programme specialized in Geology in Pécs, Hungary. BSc thesis: Ground-based cloud analysis for potential assimilation in high resolution numerical weather prediction models.
Skills
GIS
Raspberry Pi / Linux
Python
CV