Education

Ph.D. Candidate Physical Oceanography.
   Utrecht University (2020 - Dec. 2024).

M2 Environmental Fluid Mechanics.
   Université Grenoble Alpes (2019 - 2020).

M1 Applied Mechanics.
   Université Grenoble Alpes (2018 - 2019).

B.Sc. Physics.
   Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2011 - 2017).

Experience

Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU).
   Utrecht. October 2020 - present.
   PhD Researcher.
   Project: Modeling the transport and formation of Marine nanoplastic. Link 🔗
   Supervisor: Prof. Erik van Sebille & Dr. Florian Meirer..

Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS).
   Brest. February 2020 - September 2020.
   Master’s research internship.
   Project: Characterizing oceanic turbulence in hydrothermal vents ecosystems. Lucky Strike 🔗 LES plume 🔗
   Supervisors: Prof. Guillaume Roullet and Dr. Jonathan Gula.

Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE).
   Grenoble. November 2018 - May 2019.
   Master’s research internship.
   Project: Measuring katabatic winds over a alpine slopes. A potential contributor to valley inversion layers.
   Supervisor: Dr. Jean-Emmanuel Sicart.

Center for Atmospheric Sciences, UNAM.
   Mexico City. July 2017 - August 2018.
   Undergraduate Research Assistant, Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction group.
   Project: Development of an operational forecast system for extreme events using numerical models to predict extreme pollution events in Mexico City..
   Supervisor: Dr. Jorge Zavala Hidalgo.

Center for Atmospheric Sciences, UNAM.
   Mexico City. April 2017 - November 2017.
   Undergraduate Research Assistant, Laboratory of Geophysical Fluids.
   Project: Numerical simulations of convection in a stratified fluid. Link 🔗
   Supervisor: Dr. Angel Ruiz-Angulo.

Awards

Blue-Cloud Hackathon Winner Team.
   EU 25,000 for developing the Sea-Clearly tool for tracking plastic pollution reaching aquaculture farms.
   February 2022. seaclearly.io 🔗

Make Our Planet Great Again Laureate.
   Master’s Excellence Grant for Climate Science and Research.
   2018-2020.

Publications

  • C.M. Pierard, F. Meirer, E. van Seville. Identifying the Origins of Nanoplastics in the Abyssal South Atlantic Using Backtracking Lagrangian Simulations with Fragmentation. Ocean and Coastal Research (Submitted).

  • C.M. Pierard, D. Bassotto, F. Meirer, E. van Seville. Attribution of River-Sourced Floating Plastic in the South Atlantic Ocean Using Bayesian Inference. Frontiers in Marine Science (2022). DOI.

Conferences

Symposium Nanoplastics: Origin, Structure, and Fate.
   Co-organizer and Poster Presenter.
   November 2022.

European Geophysical Union General Assembly.
   Presentation: Identifying the Origins of PET Nanoplastics in the Abyssal South Atlantic.
   April 2023.

MICRO 2022 - Plastic Pollution from Macro to Nano.
   “Backtracking nanoplastics found in the abyssal South Atlantic using Lagrangian simulations with fragmentation.”
   November 2022.

Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres (NAC) - NWO.
   “Attribution of River-Sourced Floating Plastic in the South Atlantic Ocean Using Bayesian Inference.”
   September 2022.

How to engage with the Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030” – A Mediterranean Lighthouse.
   Presenting and networking with stakeholders of Sea-Clearly hackathon project.
   June 2022.

Annual Reunion of the Mexican Geophysical Union.
   “Study of the Planetary Boundary Layer over Mexico City during the inversion layers period.”
   November 2017.

Workshops

Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment.
   Summer School at DAMTP, University of Cambridge
   September 2023.

Bad Honnef Physics School on Physics of the Ocean.
   Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft – *Cancelled due to COVID-19.
   July 2020.

Marine Master’s Summer School.
   Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) – Texel, Netherlands.
   July 2019.

Summer School in Atmospheric Sciences.
   UNAM – Juriquilla, Mexico.
   June 2017.

JuliaCon 2016.
   MIT – Cambridge, MA.
   June 2016.

Teaching & Supervision

Daily Supervisor for Bachelor Thesis of Clara Koster.
   Faculty of Physics, Utrecht University..
   February - August 2023.

Teaching Assistant of Numerical Methods for Physicists and Astronomers (NS-256B).
   Faculty of Physics, Utrecht University.
   2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23.

Mentor at the OceanHackWeek en Espanol 2023.
   Introduction to Lagrangian Modeling with Ocean Parcels.
   February 2023.

Field Experience

Nanoplastics Expedition II. North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
   Physical Oceanographer onboard of RV Pelagia.
   22 November to 21 December 2023.

Glider deployment in the Gulf of Mexico
   Oceanographic Monitoring Group with Gliders (CICESE).
   Tampico. November 2017.

Skills

Languages
   Spanish (native).
   French (fluent).
   English (fluent).

Programming Languages
   Python and Julia.

Certifications

  • Nonlinear Dynamics: Mathematical and Computational Approaches.
       Santa Fe Institute. Complexity Explorer (December 2016).
  • 12.340x: Global Warming Science.
       MITx. edX (May 2016).
  • ChM003x: Sensing Planet Earth – from Core to Outer Space.
       Chalmers University of Technology. edX (March 2016).
  • Monitoring Climate from Space.
       European Space Agency. FutureLearn (January 2016).
  • Causes of Climate Change.
       University of Bergen. FutureLearn (October 2015).
  • IELTS.
       British Council. Score: 7/9. November 2019.
  • Full Cave Diver.
       Technical Diving International. March 2022.
  • Sidemount Diver.
       Technical Diving International. March 2022.