CV

(updated Oct 2026)

Current positions

• Associate Researcher (Investigadora Adjunta), CONICET. Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA, UBA-CONICET). November 2022 - present.
• Associate Professor (Profesora Adjunta, regular), Synoptic-Dynamic area, Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences (DCAO), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEN), Universidad de Buenos Aires. May 2026 - present. Position obtained by open competition.
• Vice-Director, MSc in Environmental Sciences, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires. October 2024 - present.

Education

• Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2017. Thesis: Predictability and prediction on seasonal timescales over South America. Supervisor: Carolina Vera. Grade: Outstanding (Sobresaliente).
• Diploma (Licenciatura) in Atmospheric Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2012. Thesis: Dynamical-statistical basis for the seasonal forecast of summer precipitation in eastern Argentina. Supervisor: Carolina Vera.

Work experience

• Sep 2021 - Sep 2023: Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Department of Tropospheric Research (IMK-TRO), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Project: (Sub-seasonal) Weather Prediction for the Energy Sector, in collaboration with AXPO Solutions AG, Baden, Switzerland. Supervisor: Christian M. Grams.
• Nov 2018 - Oct 2022: Assistant Researcher (Investigadora Asistente), CONICET, CIMA (UBA-CONICET). On leave from September 2021 while at KIT. Project: Development of probabilistic seasonal forecasts for operational use by the National Weather Service.
• Apr 2017 - Oct 2018: CONICET Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMA (UBA-CONICET). Project: Calibration and combination of seasonal forecasts in southern South America. Supervisor: Carolina Vera.
• Apr 2012 - Mar 2017: CONICET Ph.D. Fellow, CIMA (UBA-CONICET). Project: Predictability and prediction on seasonal timescales over South America. Supervisor: Carolina Vera.
• Nov 2008 - Mar 2012: Undergraduate research fellow, CIMA (UBA-CONICET). Project: CLARIS-LPB. Supervisor: Carolina Vera.

Publications

43 peer-reviewed articles. Check the publications page for the full list, or my ORCID profile.

Book Chapters

• Risbey JS, Barnes MA, Monselesan DP, Osman M, Parker TJ, Pook MJ, Tozer CR. Meteorology of the Southern Hemisphere Extratropics. In: Taschetto AS, Ndarana T, Ambrizzi T, eds. Meteorology and Climate of the Southern Hemisphere. Cambridge University Press; 2025:190-240.

• Ruiz, J., Aldeco L., Diehl A., García Skabar Y., Matsudo C., Osman M., Pelorosso L., Saulo C., Vera C. Cap 37: Aplicaciones en Argentina. Física del Caos en la Predicción Meteorológica. Ed. Carlos Santos Burguete. Agencia Estatal de Meteorología de España. DOI: 10.31978/014-18-009-X. URL

Technical Reports

• Faranda, D., Alberti, T., Yiou, P., Osman, M., & Mengaldo, G. (2025). Heavy rain in September 2025 Bali floods mostly intensified by human-driven climate change. ClimaMeter, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS. doi:10.5281/zenodo.17142832.

• Osman, M., Bodnariuk, N., Solman, S., Coppola, E., & Faranda, D. (2025). Heavy rain in March 2025 Argentina floods mostly strengthened by human-driven climate change. ClimaMeter, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS. doi:10.5281/zenodo.15005894.

• Castro, L. M., Godoy, A., Osman M., Spennemann P., 2025: Evaluación de productos de ECMWF para extremos de temperatura durante un evento de ola de calor en Argentina. Nota Técnica SMN 2025-197.

• de Elía, R., Haiden, T., Matsudo, C., Otero, F., Gascon, E., Castro, L., Magnusson, L., Godoy, A., Coelho, C., Bechis, H., Casati, B., D’Amen, D., Frassoni, A., Galgano, S., Osman, M., Osores, S., Righetti, S., Salio, P., Saucedo, M., Skabar, Y., Spennemann, P., Stella, J., & Wedi, N. (2025). Verification of global and regional NWP models over South America. ECMWF Technical Memoranda, 928. doi:10.21957/85fc99659c.

• Naumann, G., and co-authors (2022). Extreme and long-term drought in the La Plata Basin: event evolution and impact assessment until September 2022. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. doi:10.2760/62557, JRC132245.

• Godoy A. A., M Osman, L. E. Ferreira, M. M. Skansi, y C. Vera, 2019: Aplicación del índice LISAM en el monitoreo del monzón sudamericano. Reporte Técnico SMN 2019-53.

• Osman Marisol, Alvarez MS. “Variabilidad climática intraestacional: más allá del Niño”. Boletín técnico del Programa Presupuestal por Resultados vol. 4 N° 8 de agosto de 2017. Instituto Geográfico de Perú.

Talks

Please check the talks section for more details.

Invited talks

• Impacto de la variabilidad del Océano Índico en el clima sudamericano. IAI Regional Seminars: Linking science to services, ENSO science in Latin American and Caribbean operations. Virtual, July 2025.
• Exploiting large ensembles to understand the combined influence of ENSO and other climate drivers on the Southern Hemisphere extratropical circulation. Keynote, WCRP Open Science Conference. Kigali, Rwanda, October 2023.
• The science of weather & climate: predictions & projections. Next Generation Energy Climate Modelling Workshop. Virtual, September 2022.
• Climate Change and Development in Latin America: Responding to two challenges for the price of one. AGU Fall Meeting, December 2021.
• Esfuerzos y desafíos para avanzar en la predicción de la variabilidad climática en escalas subestacionales a estacionales. CLIMAT AmSud scientific seminar. Virtual, November 2021.

Teaching

All positions were obtained by open and competitive selection processes. Check the teaching section for more details.

• Associate Professor (regular), DCAO-FCEN-UBA, 2026 - present. Courses: Climate Prediction (undergraduate) / Fundamentals of Climate Prediction (graduate).
• Associate Professor (interim), DCAO-FCEN-UBA, May 2024 - May 2026. Courses: Climate Prediction / Fundamentals of Climate Prediction; Numerical Modelling / Current Topics in Numerical Modelling; Meteorological and Oceanographic Data Processing Laboratory.
• Teaching Assistant (Jefe de Trabajos Prácticos), DCAO-FCEN-UBA, 2017 - 2024. Courses: Climate Simulation, Dynamical Climatology, Physical Climatology, Introduction to Atmospheric Dynamics, Thermodynamic Processes in the Atmosphere, Numerical Modelling, Meteorological Data Processing Laboratory, General Meteorology (distance learning).
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Synoptic-Dynamic Meteorology, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, February - November 2017.
• Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, DCAO-FCEN-UBA, 2012 - 2017. Courses: Dynamics of the Upper Atmosphere, Theoretical Meteorology, Computing Seminar, General Meteorology (distance learning).

Lecturer in short courses (by invitation)

• Fundamentals of Subseasonal Prediction (virtual course). Regional Climate Centre for Southern South America (RCC-SAS). July - August 2024.
• Models for Seasonal and Subseasonal applications in the agriculture sector in Africa, training workshop for ECRs. Sustainability Research + Innovation Congress 2024. May 2024.
• Fundamentals of Subseasonal Prediction. Regional Climate Centre for Southern South America. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19-22 March 2024.
• Basis and tools for the calibration of seasonal forecasts (virtual course). Regional Climate Centre for Southern South America. June 2023.
• Economic impact of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean. Universidad de Extremadura, Spain. October 2020 and October 2021.
• 10th International Training Workshop. Theme: Subseasonal to seasonal forecasting. NOAA-USAID. Guayaquil, Ecuador, July 2018.
• South American School on Predictability and Prediction on Subseasonal Timescales. WMO and RCC-SAS. Asunción, Paraguay, July 2017.

Student Supervision

See the people page for thesis topics and the papers that came out of each thesis.

Current Students

• Luciano Andrián, PhD student (UBA), working on the combined influence of ENSO and other climate patterns on South American climate on interannual timescales. Co-supervisor: Carolina Vera.
• Marco Micieli, PhD student (UBA), working on weather regimes and topological analysis. Supervisor: Denisse Sciamarella.
• Paz García LodiFe, PhD student (UBA). Supervisor: Denisse Sciamarella.
• Mariana Scilingo, PhD student (UBA). Supervisor: Moira Luz Clara Tejedor.
• Diego Picasso, Licenciatura student (UBA), working on the analysis of a snow storm event in Patagonia and its predictability. Co-supervisor: Alejandro Godoy.

Past Students

• Caterina Mosto, PhD (UBA), defended September 2025. Co-supervised with Denisse Sciamarella.
• Marco Micieli, Licenciatura (UBA), defended March 2025. Co-supervised with Denisse Sciamarella.
• Judith Gerighausen, MSc in Physics (KIT), defended May 2024. Co-supervised with Joshua Dorrington and Christian Grams.
• Carla Viazzo, Licenciatura (UBA), defended April 2024. Co-supervised with Emilio Bianchi.
• Lucía Castro, Licenciatura (UBA), defended October 2023.
• Thomas Renkhoff, BSc in Meteorology (KIT), defended October 2022. Co-supervised with Christian M. Grams.
• Luciano Andrián, Licenciatura (UBA), defended March 2021. Co-supervised with Carolina Vera.
• Nahuel Gómez, Licenciatura (UBA), defended March 2021. Co-supervised with Carolina Vera.

Projects

Current Projects

• Combined influence of large-scale climate patterns on high-impact climate events in Northeastern Argentina. UBACyT 2023-2026. Director: Carolina Vera. Role: Co-director.
• TeMPlex: Topological Methods for the Planet’s dynamics. ANR AAPG2023 (France), 2024-2026. Director: Denisse Sciamarella. Role: Collaborator.

Projects I led

• Impact of the dynamics of the Southern Annular Mode and its combined action with other large-scale climate patterns on South American climate and its predictability. ANPCyT PICT-2018-03046, 2020-2023. Role: PI.
• Application of climate forecasts to agricultural risk management. UBA Strategic Development Project PDE_46_2019, 2019-2022. Role: PI (co-PI: Esteban Otto Thomasz).
• Cyan: Climate dynamics analysis from data. MinCyT CLIMAT AmSud, 2021-2022. Role: co-PI with Denisse Sciamarella.

Past Projects (participant)

• Combined influence of large-scale climate patterns on high-impact climate events in Northeastern Argentina and their prediction. ANPCyT PICT-2021-GRF-TI-00498, 2023-2024. Director: Federico Robledo.
• Interactions between large-scale climate patterns and their impact on South American climate. CONICET PIP, 2021-2023. Director: Federico Robledo.
• CLIMAX: Climate Services Through Knowledge Co-Production, a Euro-South American initiative for strengthening societal adaptation response to extreme events. Belmont Forum and JPI-Climate, 2016-2023. Director: Carolina Vera.
• Interactions between large-scale climate patterns and their impact on southern South America. UBACyT, 2018-2022. Director: Carolina Vera.
• CLIMAR: Climate monitoring and prediction for the prevention of water-related disasters in Argentina. Ministry of Defense, 2015-2018. Directors: Carolina Vera and María de los Milagros Skansi.
• CLARIS-LPB: A Europe-South America Network for Climate Change Assessment and Impact Studies in La Plata Basin. European Commission FP7, 2008-2012. Director: Jean-Philippe Boulanger.
• Earlier projects funded by CONICET, UBACyT and ANPCyT (2008-2016) on seasonal predictability, intraseasonal variability and probabilistic forecasts for Argentina.

Cooperation Agreements

• Technical lead of the cooperation agreement between the Argentine National Weather Service (SMN) and CONICET to implement at SMN the seasonal forecast system developed by our group, for operational use in the official seasonal climate outlooks. Agreement CONVE-2020-62039111-APN-SMN#MD.

Coordination Roles

• Member of the Scientific Steering Group of APARC (Atmospheric Processes and their Role in Climate), WCRP. June 2025 - present.
• Member of the coordination group of SNAP (Stratospheric Network for the Assessment of Predictability), APARC. August 2024 - present.
• Member of the Working Group on Subseasonal to Interdecadal Prediction (WGSIP), WCRP. April 2024 - present.
• Co-coordinator of the SAGE project (Subseasonal Applications in Agriculture and Environment), World Weather Research Programme. September 2023 - present.
• Member of the WMO Study Group on Renewable Energy Transition, Services Commission. July 2024 - present.
• Member of the WMO Expert Team on Capacity Development, Standing Committee on Climate Services. August 2020 - August 2024.
• Member of the South America Regional Hub of the WCRP Lighthouse Activity My Climate Risk. 2022.
• Member of the coordination group of Theme 3 of the WCRP Polar Climate Prediction Initiative. October 2018 - October 2019.
• Council member (2015 - 2024) and Executive Committee member (2016 - 2021) of YESS, the Young Earth System Scientists community.

Organisation of Scientific Meetings

• Convener of the session “Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction: Mechanisms, Processes and Applications”, EGU General Assembly 2024, 2025 and 2026.
• Organiser of the School on Climate Prediction across Timescales. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23-27 February.
• Member of the organising committee of the Next Generation Energy Climate Modelling Workshop, 2022 and 2024.
• Member of the organising committee of the IFAECI days, FCEN-UBA, September 2024.
• Co-convener of the session “Climate predictability and prediction”, WCRP Open Science Conference 2023.
• Convener of the session “Monsoon dynamics and variability”, AMS Annual Meeting 2021.
• Member of the organising committee of early career workshops at the AGU Fall Meeting (2019, 2020) and of the Joint YESS-YHS ECR Workshop (Canmore, Canada, 2018).

Editorial and Review Activities

• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science. July 2021 - present.
• Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Subseasonal to Decadal Predictions in support of Climate Services”, Climate Services. March 2021 - May 2023.
• Member of the CONICET advisory committee for fellowships in Earth Sciences. September 2025 - present.
• Reviewer of the First Order Draft and Second Order Draft of the IPCC WGI AR6, and of Chapter 5 of the 2022 WMO Ozone Assessment.
• Reviewer for Journal of Climate, Climate Dynamics, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Weather and Climate Dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research, npj journals, Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems, Journal of Hydrometeorology, International Journal of Climatology, Meteorological Applications, Tellus, Atmospheric Research, Science China Earth Sciences, Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia and Meteorológica.
• Evaluator of research projects for ANPCyT (PICT), CLIMAT AmSud and FONDECYT (Chile).

Awards

• Best poster award, WCRP-LAC Conference “Developing, linking and applying climate knowledge”. Montevideo, Uruguay, March 2014.

Other Activities

• Joint Monthly Climate Briefings: in collaboration with the Argentine National Weather Service (SMN), the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences (DCAO) and CIMA, I co-organize the monthly CIMA-DCAO-SMN climate briefing, where the academic and operational weather and climate community discusses the conditions behind the climate anomalies observed in Argentina and South America. I have participated in and co-organized this activity since August 2011.
• Research visits to the NOAA Climate Prediction Center (2014), the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (2018), CPTEC/INPE (2018) and Météo-France (2019).
• Academic Visitor at the University of Reading, hosted by Ted Shepherd. January 2019 and April - July 2019.