
Cristian Alexis Martinez Villalobos
Assistant Professor
Universidad Adolfo Ibánez
Santiago, Chile
Extreme precipitation, global warming, El Niño Southern Oscillation, inverse modeling, climate stochastic modeling, data-driven modeling, heat waves, global climate model evaluation, droughts and dry spells, global warming attribution, extreme events
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Physics, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2007
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Physics, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2010
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Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON. Estados Unidos, 2016
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Postdoctoral Researcher Full Time
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles, Estados Unidos
2016 - 2019
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Staff Research Associate III Full Time
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles, Estados Unidos
2019 - 2020
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Postdoctoral Researcher Full Time
CORPORACION CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS ARIDAS
La Serena, Chile
2020 - 2021
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Assistant Professor Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBANEZ
Engineering and Science
Santiago, Chile
2021 - A la fecha
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Postdoctoral Researcher Full Time
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, Estados Unidos
2016 - 2019
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Staff Research Associate III Full Time
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, Chile
2019 - 2020
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Postdoctoral Researcher Full Time
Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas
La Serena, Chile
2020 - 2021
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Assistant Professor Full Time
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Santiago, Chile
2021 - A la fecha
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 2016-2019. Supervisor: J. David Neelin
Research Associate III, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 2019-2020. Supervisor: J. David Neelin
Postdoctoral Researcher, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA). 2020-2021. Supervisor: Boris Dewitte. Fondecyt Postdoctoral Project 3200621 2020-2023.
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Fulbright-Conicyt Scholarship
COMISION FULBRIGHT-CHILE
Chile, 2010
Funding PhD studies at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, Madison, WI, United States.
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Astronomy Department Tuition Scholarship (Matrícula de Honor)
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Chile, 2003
Given to the highest ranked applicant in the admission process to the Astronomy Major.
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Winner of the Hivemind El Niño Prediction Market October 2019
Hivemind El Niño Prediction Market
Reino Unido, 2019
An online market in which experts (researchers and modelers) bet on the future conditions of the sea surface temperature in the Central Pacific. This tests how well and how many months in advance modeling groups can predict El Niño events. "The market aggregates the judgment of experts to generate a probabilistic forecast of the global weather phenomenon." https://medium.com/hvmd/introducing-the-hivemind-el-ni%C3%B1o-prediction-market-9a77f638c129
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Best Poster IV International Conference on El Niño Southern Oscillation
American Meteorological Society
Ecuador, 2018
Best Poster, 2018. Early Career Scientists Poster Competition. IV International Conference on El Niño Southern Oscillation.
A Modification of Contour-Improved Perturbation Theory |

Cristian Martinez
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Engineering and Science
Universidad Adolfo Ibánez
Santiago, Chile

Gorazd Cvetic
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA
Valparaiso, Chile