Detailed CV of Roger Cremades

Dr. Roger Cremades
Address: Fischerstwiete 1, 20095 Hamburg - Germany
Telephone: +49 (0) 40 226 338 455, e-mail: [email protected]
Place and date of birth: Valencia, Spain, 12/09/1977
EDUCATION
2013 - 2015
2010 - 2012
2007 - 2011
2007 - 2011
1995 - 2001
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and Hamburg University, Germany.
Ph.D. Policy assessment in Asia under diverse adaptation scenarios.
Cranfield University, United Kingdom.
M.Sc. Economics for Natural Resource and Environmental Management.
Beijing University of Technology (北京工业大学), China.
Engineering Program for International Students.
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
B.Sc. Environmental Science, thesis honoured with a special mention.
Polytechnic University of Valencia.
B.Sc. Forestry Engineering, thesis at Padova U., Italy.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015 to date
2014 to date
2013
2012
2011
2007 - 2012
The Earth League.
Earth-Doc Programme.
GERICS, Climate Service Center Germany.
Research Associate.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Groups II and III.
Expert Reviewer.
East Anglia University, United Kingdom.
Research agreements on adaptation to climate change in China.
Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
Research period on irrigation technology.
Socio-Environmental Consultancy, Valencia, Spain.
Independent sustainability professional.
PUBLICATION LIST
Selected articles
Cremades, R., Rothausen, S., Conway, D. et. al. (2016). Co-Benefits and Trade-Offs in the WaterEnergy Nexus of Irrigation in China. Environmental Research Letters (Accepted in April).
Hasselmann, K., Cremades, R. et. al. (2015). Free-riders to forerunners. Nature Geoscience.
Cremades, R., Wang, J., Morris, J. (2015). Policies, economic incentives and the adoption of irrigation
technology in China. Earth System Dynamics.
Rockström, J., Brasseur, G., Hoskins, B., (...), Cremades, R. et al. (2014). Climate change: The
necessary, the possible and the desirable. Earth's Future.
Zou, X., Li, Y., Cremades, R. et al. (2013). Cost-Effectiveness of responses to climate change based
on water-saving irrigation in China. Agricultural Water Management.
Books
Froelich, C., Gioli, G., Greco, F. and Cremades, R. (Eds.). (Expected 2016). Water security across the
gender divide. New York: Springer.
Cremades, R. (2009). Urbanism and Mediterranean landscape problems “Macrourbanisme i agressions
al paisatge mediterrani”. Oliva (Valencia): Riu Blanc.
SELECTED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
2016: Panel discussion “Socio-economic & biophysical dynamics of the humanity-nature
nexus”, Future Earth & Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Foresight
Workshop (Como, Italy); 2015: "Extreme events and the value of forecasting services for
agricultural stakeholders in India" at 2nd European Climate Change Adaptation Conference
(Copenhagen). 2014: 5th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists
(Istanbul). 2013: Chair of session "Agriculture II: Ecosystems and Water" at BIOECON
(Cambridge University, UK).
AWARDED GRANTS
2013
2011
2010 - 2011
2005
2000 - 2001
Centre for a Sustainable University (Hamburg).
Polytechnic University of Valencia: PROMOE (China) Program.
Polytechnic University of Valencia: International Master Scholarship.
CEIC “Alfons el Vell”: Environmental Research Grant.
European Union: Erasmus Scholar
COMPLEMENTARY ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE
Capacity building in transition and developing countries: China, India, Nicaragua. Teacher
assistant (GAMS based modelling), occasional lecturer and apprenticeship tutor at diverse
universities; frequent speaker at various institutions. Student representative at IMPRS-ESM
Graduate School (2013-2014). Peer reviews: Water Resources Research; Greenhouse Gases:
Science and Technology; Biomass & Bioenergy; Earth System Dynamics; Climatic Change;
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment; Environmental Modelling and Software.
COMPUTING SKILLS
Windows, basics of Unix and Linux. Mathematical modelling: GAMS, Stata, Vensim, SPSS
and basic NetLogo. GIS software: ArcGIS, Autodesk Map. Programming languages: GAMS,
Awk, SQL, currently increasing abilities on Python and Java, basics of Logo languages, Fortran
and Html.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Fluent English, Spanish, Italian and Catalan. Intermediate German and Chinese. Basic French
and Spanish Signed Language.
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCES, SKILLS AND PERSONAL INTERESTS
Ability to learn languages and methods quickly. Writing skills. Active interest in
mountaineering (6.000 m. reached), panarchies in landscape evolution, and heritage sites.
Valencian flute player.