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Professional Overview

Dr. Pere Quintana Seguí is a research scientist specializing in hydrology, climate change, and remote sensing applications. Currently he leads the Hydrology and Climate Change Research Line and has contributed extensively to understanding water resources management under climate change scenarios, with particular expertise in Mediterranean regions.

Personal Data

  • Given Name: Pere
  • Family Name: Quintana Seguí1
  • Place of birth: Mahón, Minorca (Spain)

Researcher Identifiers

Current Academic Affiliation

Observatori de l'Ebre (Universitat Ramon Llull - CSIC). Roquetes (Spain).

Research Areas

Meteorology, hydrology, agrometeorology, climate, land surface modeling, climate change, hydrological extremes, floods, droughts, water resources management, irrigation monitoring, distributed hydrological modeling, meteorological analysis, remote sensing applications.

Professional Experience

Director (2023-2025)

Scientific Researcher (2008-present)

Research Assistant (2005-2008)

Education

PhD in Meteorology and Hydrology (2005-2008)

  • Institution: Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques - Météo-France, Toulouse, France
  • Thesis: Simulation hydrologique en région méditerranéenne avec SAFRAN-ISBA-MODCOU. Amélioration de la physique et évaluation des risques dans le cadre du changement climatique (Hydrological simulation in the Mediterranean area with SAFRAN-ISBA-MODCOU. Improvement of the model's physics and evaluation of risks under climate change)
  • Details: More information

MSc in Ocean, Atmosphere and Continental Surfaces (2004-2005)

  • Institution: Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
  • Program: Master 2 Recherche "Océan, atmosphère et surfaces continentales"
  • Research Project: "Amélioration de la simulation des crues en Méditerranée à l'aide du système SIM" (Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, February-June 2005)

BSc in Physics (1999-2004)

Academic Qualifications

Teaching and Research Accreditation

  • 2012: Favorable report for "Tenure-track lecturer" (professor lector) position from AQU (Catalan Agency for the Quality of the University System)

Research Evaluation Periods

Research periods favorably evaluated by AQU:

  • 2006-2011: Research period evaluation
  • 2012-2017: Research period evaluation

PhD Supervision

Completed PhD Theses

Omar Cenobio Cruz (2023)

  • Title: "Advancing hydrological modeling for understanding drought dynamics in the Ebro river basin. The role of Land Surface Models in coupled natural-human systems"
  • Directors: P. Quintana Seguí (OE-URL) and Luis Garrote (UPM)
  • Date: November 21, 2023
  • Grade: Excellent cum laude
  • Institution: Ramon Llull University

Jacopo Dari (2021)

  • Title: "Towards a better understanding of the Anthropogenic Impact on the Hydrological Cycle: Detecting and Estimating Irrigation through Remote Sensing Soil Moisture"
  • Directors: R. Morbidelli (U. Perugia), L. Brocca (CNR-IRPI) and P. Quintana-Seguí (OE-URL)
  • Date: March 29, 2021
  • Grade: Excellent cum laude
  • Institution: Florence University and Ramon Llull University

Qi Gao (2019)

  • Title: "Estimation of water resources on continental surfaces by multi-sensor microwave remote sensing"
  • Directors: P. Quintana-Seguí, M.J. Escorihuela and M. Zribi
  • Date: July 30, 2019
  • Grade: Excellent
  • Institution: Observatori de l'Ebre (Universitat Ramon Llull) and CESBIO (Université de Toulouse)

Raül Marcos Matamoros (2016)

  • Title: "Improvement of seasonal forecasting techniques applied to water resources and forest fires"
  • Directors: M. Carmen Llasat and P. Quintana Seguí
  • Date: February 9, 2016
  • Grade: Excellent cum laude
  • Institution: Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona

PhD juries

  • 2022. Paolo Filippucci. "High-Resolution Remote Sensing For Rainfall And River Discharge Estimation". Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy).
  • 2020. Michel Le Page. "Une contribution pour l'utilisation de la télédétection spatiale à la gestion de l'eau agricole". Université de Toulouse III (France).
  • 2019. Jordi Etchanchu. "Apport des données de télédétection haute 'resolution et haute répétitivité dans la modélisation hydro-météorologique." Université de Toulouse III (France).
  • 2019. Vicent Favà Figueres. “Efectos climáticos en la Península Ibérica del cambio de fase del índice SNAO en 1967”. Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain).
  • 2017. Ana Genua Olmedo. "Modelling sea level rise impacts and the management options for rice production: the Ebro Delta as an example". Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain).
  • 2016. Rodrigo García Manzanas. “Statistical downscaling of precipitation in seasonal forecasting“. Universidad de Cantabria (Spain).
  • 2016. Miriam Pablos Hernández. “Earth remote sensing with SMOS, Aquarius and SMAP missions”. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain).
  • 2015. Elizabeth Harader. “L’impact du changement climatique sur les événements hydrologiques extrêmes des petits bassins versants méditerranéens : le cas du bassin versant du Lez”. Université Toulouse III (France).
  • 2014. USC. Alberto Martínez de la Torre. “Groundwater influence on soil moisture memory and land-atmosphere interactions over the Iberian Peninsula”. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain).

Editorial and Review Activities

Project Evaluation

  • Spanish State Research Agency: Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación, 2018 RTI (Retos Investigación) and PGC (Generación del Conocimiento) calls, Scientific-technical evaluation committee for CTM-CYA area

Academic Memberships

Language Skills

Footnotes:

1

My family name is Quintana Seguí, not Seguí. Since 2011, in all my publications I'm writing my name as "Pere Quintana-Seguí", to avoid this confusion. Read more about the Spanish naming convention here.

2

I made a difference between mother tongue and native speaker, which are usually considered synonyms. Catalan is my mother tongue because this is the language my parents transmitted to me, and, in fact, it is also the language I mainly use with family, friends and coworkers. However, Spanish is widely used in the Catalan speaking regions of Spain. In fact, in Spain, every speaker of Catalan is also a speaker of Spanish. We learn both languages at school and we also use both of them everyday, switching languages very often. Therefore we all speak Spanish as well as any other Spaniard, even though, technically, it is not our mother tongue.

3

I lived in French speaking countries for five years, working in this language. I even wrote my PhD thesis in French (with some help from my advisors).

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