Short CV

Academic background:
2004 - 2009: Ph.D. in Chemistry, National University of Córdoba, Argentina.
1998 - 2002: B.Sc. in Physical-Chemistry, National University of Córdoba, Argentina.

Work experience:
Since 2011: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Climate Science (CIAC) - CSIC, Toledo, Spain.
2009 - 2011: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Atmospheric and Environmental Studies Group (GEAA), National Technological University, Mendoza, Argentina.
4/2007 - 5/2007: Young Scientist Researcher, Juelich Research Center (FZ Jülich), Germany.

Selected publications:

• S. Enrique Puliafito, David Allende, Rafael Fernandez, Fernando Castro and Pablo Cremades. New Approaches for Urban and Regional Air Pollution Modelling and Management, Advanced Air Pollution, Farhad Nejadkoorki (Ed.), InTech, (2011). ISBN: 978-953-307-511-2.

• Fernandez, R., Allende, D., Castro, F., Cremades, P., Puliafito, E. Regional Air Quality Modeling using WRF/Chem: implementation of global and local databases for Mendoza, Argentina. Avances en Energías Renovables y Medio Ambiente (AERMA), Vol. 14, pp. 01.43-01.50. (2010). ISSN 0329- 5284

• Rafael P. Fernandez, Martin Kaufmann, Beatriz M. Toselli. Effects of the inclusion of bending-to- stretching transitions in the non-LTE modeling of ozone vibrational temperatures. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 72, Issues 11-12, Pages 890-899, (2010). ISSN 1364-6826, DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2010.05.005.

• Rafael P. Fernandez, Martin Kaufmann, Beatriz M. Toselli. Relative importance of ozone energy transfer processes in the middle and upper atmosphere. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 71, Issues 8-9, Pages 805-815, (2009). ISSN 1364-6826, DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2009.03.004.

• Rafael P. Fernandez, Gustavo G. Palancar, Sasha Madronich, Beatriz M. Toselli. Photolysis rate coefficients in the upper atmosphere: Effect of line by line calculations of the O2 absorption cross section in the Schumann-Runge bands. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Volume 104, Issue 1, Pages 1-11 (2007). ISSN 0022-4073, DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2006.08.005.

• Gustavo G. Palancar, Rafael P. Fernandez, Beatriz M. Toselli. Photolysis rate coefficients calculations from broadband UV-B irradiance: model-measurement interaction. Atmospheric Environment, Volume 39, Issue 5, Pages 857-866, (2005). ISSN 1352-2310, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.10.033.