Jezabel Curbelo Hernandez

I am Full Professor ("Catedrática") at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and recipient of the 2025 Spanish National Research Award for Young Researchers, in the María Andresa Casamayor category (Mathematics and Information and Communication Technologies). Before that, I was "Ramón y Cajal" research fellow (UPC) (July 2020 - June 2025), Visiting Assistant Researcher in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) at University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) (February - June 2019, 2020), and Assistant Professor ("Profesor Ayudante Doctor" 2016-2020) at Department of Mathematics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

I also was a postdoc LabEX LIO at Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, Planètes, Environnement (CNRS, ENS, Lyon1) in Lyon, France, Juan de la Cierva Formación Postdoc at Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Aeronáutica y del Espacio at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and PhD student in the JAE-Predoc fellowships program at Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas ICMAT and Teaching Assistant ("Profesora Ayudante" 2012-2014).

My research focuses mainly on applied mathematics in geophysical fluids and related problems. More specifically in the simulation and modeling of the complicated processes underlying fluid motion and in the description of transport, mixing and stirring in the ocean and atmosphere from the standpoint of dynamical systems theory. I study fluid dynamics occurring in geophysical settings both from an analytical and fundamentally numerical point of view. In particular, I work in atmospheric and oceanic dynamics looking for lagrangian coherent structures that characterize the transport and I investigate fundamental behaviors of fluid processes in planetary mantles, where I analyze the convective motions. I also study the melting of Phase Change materials.