Alex Romero Prieto

Profile

I am a second year PhD student in the Physical Climate Change research group  at the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, funded by the PANORAMA DTP and a CASE partnership with the Met Office. My professional interests lie in the intersection between physics, mathematics, software engineering and environmental science. In particular, the different ways we can use our mathematical and physical models to estimate future climate.

I began my PhD at Leeds in October 2023 investigating the efficient simulation of climate through Simple Climate Models (SCMs), with a particular emphasis on their representation of the carbon cycle. My findings will help develop the next iteration of the Finite Amplitude Impulse Response (FaIR) model. Once an accurate carbon cycle framework has been developed, I intend to use it as a tool to explore the future sinks and sources of carbon and how they might impact the climate after net-zero.

Before coming to Leeds, I worked as a software engineer for several years in Edinburgh, where I graduated with an MSc in Computational Applied Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh. Previously, I completed my undergraduate degree (Grado) in Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Research interests

• Simple climate models (a.k.a reduced-complexity models)
• Carbon cycle
• Zero emissions commitment
• Impulse-response models
• Numerical methods
• Climate modelling

Qualifications

• MSc Computational Applied Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
• Grado en Física (Four-year degree), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Research groups and institutes

• Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science