Francisco Molero currently works at the Atmospheric Pollution Characterization Unit of CIEMAT. He has 21 years of experience in the field of atmospheric sciences, in areas such as aerosol remote sensing, long-range transport of pollution, aerosol radiative forcing and instrumental developments of heterodyne spectrometers. He specializes in the study of air pollution by remote sensing, including the study of aerosols using the lidar technique. Currently, He is working on microphysical parameters of aerosols (size distribution, refractive index, angstrom exponents) from multifrequency Raman lidar measurements and the interaction of aerosols with humidity in order to evaluate the indirect effect of the aerosols on climate. During a three-year stay at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, he collaborated on the development of instruments for spectroscopic measurements in the middle IR for space applications. Throughout his scientific activity, he has supervised one doctoral thesis, participated in 18 research projects, while being responsible for two of them, and was a participant in two national patents. He is the author or co-author of 36 publications included in the Web of Science (h = 13) and more than 60 contributions to congresses, and has participated as an expert reviewer in the IPCC-AR6-WG1 report. He received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 1998 and an MSc in optoelectronic and laser devices from the Heriot-Watt University in 1996.
Pedro Salvador received a B.S. degree in physics and a Ph.D. degree in physics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain, in 1996 and 2004, respectively. He is currently with the “Atmospheric Pollution Unit” of the Environmental Department of the Research Center for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT). He has more than 20 years of experience in both technical aspects and legislative issues of air quality, as well as in the interpretation of air quality data. His research interests include different aspects of atmospheric aerosols, with a special interest in source apportionment studies and the characterization of medium- and long-range transport episodes. He has participated in more than 20 research projects, most of them approved in national and European open public calls. He collaborates with national and international groups and institutions such as the IDAEA-CSIC, the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) of the University of Aveiro (Portugal), the Centre of Nuclear Sciences and Technologies of the University of Lisboa (Portugal), and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He is a co-author of more than 50 research papers published in high-impact journals, such as Atmospheric Environment, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Environmental Pollution, and Science of the Total Environment (h-index= 28, Web of Science Core Collection) and more than 60 national and international conference proceedings.
