Juan Antonio Añel Cabanelas is a Professor of Earth Physics at the University of Vigo , affiliated with the EPhysLab research group and the Specialized Group on Atmospheric and Ocean Physics of the Royal Spanish Society of Physics . He serves as an Executive Editor for Geoscientific Model Development and an Associate Editor for PLoS Climate . PhD in Physics (2007) from the University of Vigo, thesis: Climatic analysis of the tropopause using radiosonde data Taught courses in Meteorology, Atmospheric Physics, Computational Science, and Renewable Energy at the University of Vigo and international institutions His research focuses on climate change impacts , upper troposphere-lower stratosphere dynamics , renewable energy modeling , and computational reproducibility in climate research . He emphasizes instrumental data recovery and open science , with recent work addressing stratospheric contraction and mercury cycling . Key publications span extreme weather-energy sector interactions , Fortran code quality , and ozone data analysis . He mentors PhD students in Physics and Computer Science, and has collaborated with institutions in Mexico, Portugal, and the private sector. He advocates for free software and has organized workshops on climate intervention and citizen science . His work is funded by public grants from Spain's Government, Xunta de Galicia, and private entities like Naturgy and Acciona, with computing support from Google and Microsoft.







