L. Alados-Arboledas

Lucas Alados-Arboledas received his B.Sc. in Physics, M.Sc. in Physics and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Granada, Spain, 1981, 1983 and 1987, respectively. Since 1987, LAA is part of the staff of the University of Granada, developing his activity at the Almería Polytechnic School. He got the Associate Professor position in 1989. After that he got the Full Professor position in Applied Physics in 1991. Since that date he develops his research and teaching activity at the Sciences Faculty of the University of Granada. Since 2003 he is Professor in Applied Physics developing his research activity in the Andalusian Research Institute for the Earth System. He has participated in 36 research projects and experimental campaigns, in 22 of which as principal investigator. He has more than 180 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and his work received more than 2500 citations (h index = 33). He co-chaired the European Aerosol Conference (2012), being a member of the conference steering committee, conference organization committee, conference program committee and co-editor of the proceedings. LAA has been a supervisor of 20 PhD thesis and more than 20 MSc thesis. He is a member of the editorial board of Atmospheric Research Journal (Elsevier Publications, Impact Factor = 3.377) and has been an active reviewer in 25 scientific Journals including Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letter, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Applied Optics, Atmospheric Environment, Tellus B and others. LAA is mainly interested in atmospheric aerosol/cloud characterization using ground based remote sensing observations (passive and active remote sensing techniques) and in-situ techniques, specifically (i) Aerosol characterization, aerosol radiative impacts and climatic role, (ii) Ground-based active and passive remote sensing techniques for the retrieval of the atmospheric composition, (iii) Inversion methods for the retrieval of optical and microphysical aerosol properties, (iv) Link between in-situ and remote sensing retrievals of atmospheric aerosol properties and (v)Validation of aerosol-related space-borne products using ground based measurements. LAA is PI of the Atmospheric Physics Group (GFAT) of the IISTA-CEAMA research center. GFAT develops its activity in the frame of AERONET and EARLINET networks. His lidar related activities have been acknowledged by the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET), which has elected LAA as a council member for the period 2012-2016 and re-elected for a new period 2016-2020. He has been co-chair of the EAA's working group "Atmospheric Aerosols" since 2009.