mandrade@fiumsa.edu.bo
Marcos F. Andrade Flores is a tenured professor at the Physics Department of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) and adjunct associate professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science (AOSC) of the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, United States. He obtained a BS in Physics from UMSA and an MSc (thanks to a Fulbright scholarship) and a PhD in Meteorology from AOSC (formerly the Department of Meteorology) of the University of Maryland. He did his postdoctoral work at the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, which was a joint center between UMBC and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He is the founder and researcher of the UMSA’s Laboratory for Atmospheric Physics and since 2013 he has been its director. Andrade is Principal Investigator of the Chacaltaya climate monitoring station, which is part of the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) international network of the World Meteorological Organization. Since 2018 he has been a member of GAW's Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry (EPAC) Scientific Steering Committee (SSC). In addition he was co-chair from the Americas Working Group of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) project between 2018 and 2023. He has worked on issues related to ultraviolet radiation, the ozone layer, weather and climate in the Andes, climate change, the study of aerosols with satellite instruments, atmospheric composition monitoring, and, recently, on issues related to aerosols and the transmission of COVID-19. In 2020 he received the Palmes Académiques award from the French government and, in 2024, Andrade joined the National Academy of Sciences of Bolivia.
paola.arias@udea.edu.co
Paola Andrea Arias Gómez is a climate scientist and professor at the Environmental School of the University of Antioquia. Her research includes different aspects of climate change and hydroclimate modeling in Colombia and South America. Arias is the first Colombian woman to be selected as an author for an IPCC report, participating as lead author for Working Group I of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. Arias has a BS in civil engineering and an MSc in hydric resources from the National University of Colombia. In 2008 she went on to obtain a second MSc in earth and atmospheric sciences from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a thesis titled "Changes in cloudiness over tropical land during the last decades and its link to global climate change". In 2011, Arias obtained a PhD in geological sciences from the University of Texas under the guidance of Rong Fu, with a dissertation titled "Climate variability over the American monsoon and Amazonian regions during the last decades". She joined the department of geophysics at the University of Chile as a postdoctoral researcher for the Center of Excellence for Research on Climate and Resilience, where Arias continued her work on American monsoon systems. She participated in the TED independent event "TEDxBogotaMujeres", where she talked about the climate crisis.
rgarreau@uchile.cl
René Garreaud is a Full Professor of the Department of Geophysics, University of Chile, and deputy Director of the FONDAP Center of Excellence for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2). He has also been director of the Department of Geophysics of the University of Chile (2008-2009), director of CR2 (2022-2023), and president of the Higher Council of Sciences of FONDECYT (2013). He has been invited as a Research Fellow to Yale University (2016) and University of California San Diego (2024), USA, and actively participates in national and international scientific initiatives.
His academic training includes a doctorate in Meteorology obtained in 2000 at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, a degree in Civil engineering, and a Master of Science from the University of Chile (1993).
Prof. Garreaud's expertise is in climate dynamics, climate change, and synoptic meteorology, focusing on South America. His work is extensive, with over 170 publications in specialized international journals with more than 12 thousand citations, thus ranking in the top 2% of the most productive researchers in the world. His dedication to the field extends to training new scientists, supervising ten postdoctoral students, 16 Master students, and three doctorates. He also imparts his knowledge by teaching various climate, meteorology, and physics courses for undergraduate and graduate students at the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile.
full CV: http://www.dgf.uchile.cl/ren
ricardo@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar
CONICET Senior Researcher based at the Argentinean Institute of Snow, Ice and Environmental Sciences (IANIGLA), Mendoza. He is interested in paleoclimatology and the impacts of climate change on natural resources in the Andes. Author/co-author of 344 scientific publications in book chapters and national and international journals with Scopus index h=59 (Feb-2025). Member of the PAGES Steering Committee (2004-2009) and co-author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC, 2007). Actively participated in the adoption of Argentina's Glacier Protection Law (2010). Harold C. Fritts Award from the International Tree Ring Society in recognition of "a lifetime" dedicated to the education and study of tree ring science. Corresponding Academician of the Argentine Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences. He currently advises fellows and researchers at national and international scientific institutions.
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