Pep Canadell
Spanish climate scientist
Josep "Pep" Canadell i Gili (born 1961) is a Catalan-Australian scientist specialising in climate science, ecology, and biogeochemistry. He is a Chief Research Scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Chief Lead Investigator in the Climate Systems Hub of Australia's National Environmental Science Program (NESP), and Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project. He is a fellow of major scientific societies including the American Geophysical Union, the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Royal Academy of Science and Arts of Barcelona and the Institute of Catalan Studies. His research emphasises quantification of greenhouse gas budgets and pathways to climate mitigation. In 2021, Reuters ranked him the eighth most influential climate scientist in the world.
Canadell has contributed as a lead author to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports and has participated in multiple assessments by the World Meteorological Organisation.
Early life and education
Canadell was born in Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain, in 1961. He earned a Bachelor of Science (1984), a Master of Science in Ecology (1989), and a Ph.D. in fire ecology (1995) from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
During his postgraduate period, he worked as a specialist technician with the Catalonian Department of Environment on a forest watershed biogeochemistry project. He held teaching roles at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona as Assistant Professor and later Field and Laboratory Assistant Professor while completing his masters and doctoral research.
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