Email: roger.seco@idaea.csic.es
Tlf: 932557687- int: 437910
Orcid: 0000-0002-2078-9956
https://www.rogerseco.cat/
Roger Seco
Description
He obtained his PhD at CREAF (Barcelona) before working at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of California Irvine (USA), and later as an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). His research has focused on the biogenic emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and how these are affected by temperature and drought stress in a variety of ecosystems ranging from northern tundra to Amazonian rain forests. In addition, he has studied how these VOCs affect the ecological communication between organisms and how they alter the atmospheric chemistry. He is an expert in analyzing the constituents of the atmosphere with online mass spectrometry, in particular with proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) and in combining PTR-MS with the eddy covariance technique to measure ecosystem-scale fluxes of VOCs. At IDAEA, in addition to working on biogenic VOC flux studies, he plans on applying the expertise gained in natural sites to the urban environment – to measure the fluxes of trace gases and particles, i.e., how the city breathes.
Works
Towards a remote-sensing-driven model of isoprene emissions from Alpine tundra – https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae02a9 – 2025.10
Optimizing the Temperature Sensitivity of the Isoprene Emission Model MEGAN in Different Ecosystems Using a Metropolis‐Hastings Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method – https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JG008806 – 2025.05
Seasonal investigation of ultrafine-particle organic composition in an eastern Amazonian rainforest – https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-959-2025 – 2025.01
Measurement report: Exploring the variations in ambient BTEX in urban Europe and their environmental health implications – https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-625-2025 – 2025.01
Biotic and abiotic factors controlling isoprene, DMS, and oxygenated volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at the Southern Ocean in the Austral fall – https://doi.org/10.1039/D4FD00168K – 2025