Francisco Campuzano

Francisco Campuzano is an oceanographer and numerical modeller at +ATLANTIC CoLAB. He studied at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) and holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal) and an MSc in Estuarine and Coastal Management and Science from the University of Hull (U.K.).

He has been involved in more than 20 European and national research projects. Currently he co-chairs the ICES WGOOFE WG and a is a member of three EuroGOOS Working Groups: IBI-ROOS, MONGOOS and Coastal. He is a member of Copernicus Marine Service Champion User Advisory Group (CUAG) and member of several UN Ocean Decade actions including EMODnet4OD-CIG and steering committee member in CoastPredict and Ocean Prediction DCC. He also participates in OSPAR ICG-EMO WG. He leads the EMODnet physics river node for providing near real time river data. In recent times, he was involved in the development of oceanographic operational systems linking watersheds, estuaries and the open ocean (Brito et al., 2015; Campuzano et al., 2016; Campuzano, 2018). He has led several European projects that focus on operational oceanography and environmental management (e.g., Atlantic Area iFADO & CMEMS-LAMBDA) and is the author/co-author of 26 scientific papers and 16 book chapters.