Biography
Dr. Mellado graduated in 1999 at the School of Aeronautical Engineering in the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and he received his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 2004. After one year of postdoctoral research at the Technical University in Munich, he became assistant professor at the School of Aeronautical Engineering in the University of Seville, from 2005 to 2006, joining the Institute for Combustion Technology at the RWTH Aachen University in 2007. He moved to the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg in 2010, where he led the Max Planck Research Group of Turbulent Mixing Processes in the Earth System until 2019. Between 2019 and 2021, he was full professor in the Department of Physics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Since 2021, he is full professor in the Department of Earth System Sciences in the University of Hamburg.