About me

I am an atmospheric scientist, currently a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. My research focuses on the numerical modeling of mineral dust, one of the dominant aerosol types by mass in the atmosphere, originating primarily from the Sahara and the broader Northern Hemisphere Dust Belt. Dust particles vary in size, composition, and mineralogy, and can remain airborne for days to weeks, crossing entire ocean basins before settling through rain or gravity.

My work centres on how the mineral composition of dust affects its ice nucleation and optical properties and radiative effects.

I have coordinated the operational aerosol model validation contribution of BSC to the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) through evaluation of the CAMS operational forecast system.

My PhD at the Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, produced the first implementation of a mineralogy-sensitive ice nucleation parameterization in a numerical weather prediction model.

I have also worked on biological aerosols, including a physically-based numerical model for airborne pollen and sub-pollen particle forecasting, relevant to thunderstorm asthma risk assessment.

Prior to academia, I designed and implemented NWP systems on Beowulf Clusters and large HPC infrastructures, working with GFS, Eta, and WRF-NMM models.