Juan Pereira Colonese

Research Software Engineer
Forecast, Development, Data Processing Services

Summary:
Juan Pereira Colonese is a Research Engineer with 10 years of experience in software development applied to hydrological forecasting and hydro-meteorological data analysis. His main activities are focused on improving the Copernicus Emergency Management Service for Floods by developing new tools and workflows for both the European (EFAS) and Global (GloFAS) Flood Awareness systems. His activities aim to bring ECMWF's expertise in operational geophysical data processing and high-performance computing to CEMS-Floods. As part of his career at ECMWF, Juan has also worked in the use of radar-NWP blended precipitation products for seamless flash flood impact forecasts (TAMIR/EDERA) and in the creation of high-resolution River Flood hazard maps catalogue at European and Global scales.
Professional interests:

- Hydrological forecasts

- Hydro-meteorological data analysis and modelling

- Software development in Python

- High-performance computing and the development of reproducible complex workflows

- Enabling data-driven decision-making for disaster and natural resources management.

Career background:

- Environmental Engineer with M.Sc in Water Resources Modelling at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

- 5 years experience working as a Researcher at the Electrical Energy Research Centre in Brazill. The main activities were on the development and evaluation of stochastic and physically-based hydrological models used in the operation of the Brazilian Interconnected system, with a focus on the use of weather data to improve river discharge forecasts at various spatiotemporal scales.