Marta Abalos obtained her PhD from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), in Spain, in January 2014, under the supervision of Encarna Serrano (UCM) and William Randel (NCAR). During her PhD, she visited NCAR on several occasions, funded by the Spanish predoctoral fellowship program FPI. Her Thesis focused on the dynamical processes driving the variability of tracers in the tropical tropopause layer, a region where the interactions between chemistry, radiation and dynamics are particularly strong. After defending her PhD, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, École Normale Supérieure de Paris (LMD/ENS), in France, where she studied global stratospheric transport variability on interannual and longer timescales in reanalyses. She then carried out a postdoc at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), where she worked on the future trends in global transport in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere using the chemistry-climate model Community Earth System Model-Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (CESM-WACCM). She has since continued visiting NCAR, fostering collaborations with scientists from NCAR and other research institutions around the world.

She was able to return to her home country (Spain) and carry out research at her Alma Mater in 2017, thanks to an “Attraction of Research Talent” Fellowship co-funded by the Cominidad de Madrid and UCM. After this 4-year Fellowship, she obtained an Assistant Professorship at UCM, starting in March 2021. Over the last years, her research has focused on the impact of ozone depletion and recovery, as well as increasing greenhouse gas emissions, on the circulation in the stratosphere. She was a coauthor of the 2018 World Meteorological Organization / United Nations Environmental Panel (WMO/UNEP) Ozone Assessment Report, specifically contributing to the Chapter on Stratospheric Ozone and Climate. She has been recently appointed to be a coauthor again in the 2022 Assessment Report. Her research aims to improve knowledge on the links between stratospheric ozone, climate change and the transport circulation in the stratosphere and upper troposphere.

Research Fellow
Earth Physics and Astrophysics Department
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Email: mabalosa@ucm.es