Dr. José María Baldasano Recio

Dr. JOSÉ MARÍA BALDASANO RECIO

• Born in Madrid in 1950.

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s (1973) and PhD (1983) in Chemical Sciences from the University of Barcelona.
• Chemical Engineer (1976) from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (France).
• Master of Science in Chemical Engineering (1979) from the University of Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada).

TEACHING ACTIVITY

• Emeritus Professor of Environmental Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
• Former Director of the Department of Engineering Projects at UPC (2001–2005).
• Director of the Institute of Applied Petrochemistry (IPA) from 1988 to 1991, transformed into the Institute of Environmental Technology and Modelling (ITEMA) from 1992 to 1997.
• Founder and Director of the PhD Programme in Environmental Engineering (1986–2006), the first of its kind in Spain, and Co-Director of the Master’s in Environmental Engineering (2006–2011).
• His R&D activities focus on air quality and climate change modelling, environmental impact studies, and waste management.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

• Founder and first Director of the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) (2005–2014), leading projects such as CALIOPE and the WMO Barcelona Regional Dust Centre, as well as participating in EC-EARTH.
• Responsible for the legislative development on industrial waste in the Government of Catalonia (1981–1984).
• President of the Advisory Council for the Management of Industrial Waste of the Government of Catalonia (1991–1995).
• Advisor to the Catalan Waste Agency (2004–2010).
• Since 2011, member of the Air Quality Expert Council of the MITECO.
• Member of the Environmental Advisory Council of the Ministry of the Environment (1994–1997).
• President of ADECAGUA (1989–1991).
• Member of the Expert Committee of the Spanish R&D Programme on the Environment of the CICYT.
• Member of the Working Group on Hazardous Wastes of the ISWA.
• Consultant to the UNEP and the World Bank.
• Member of the Steering Group on Ambient Air Quality of the European Union.
• Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the PRACE HPC European Initiative (2010–2012).
• Expert of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), Task Force on Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
• Numerary Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (RAED) since 2019.

PUBLICATIONS

• Supervised 33 PhD theses.
• Author of 403 papers in scientific and technical journals.
• 446 communications and 271 presentations at conferences.
• 114 lectures and 28 seminars.
• Co-editor and author of 25 books on environmental topics.
• Co-chair of 5 international conferences on environmental issues.
• Reviewer for 61 scientific journals.
• Consultant and advisor to more than 90 companies and public administrations.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

• “Rey Jaime I” Award for Environmental Protection (1997).
• Nobel Peace Prize (2007), awarded collectively to the IPCC.

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