Itxaso Odériz Martínez

Researcher

itxaso.oderiz@unican.es

+34 942 20 16 16 Ext. 56254

Biography

Itxaso is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in the Climate Risks, Adaptation, and Resilience Group. Her current work focuses on coastal adaptation to climate change, to achieve comprehensive adaptation at a global scale by combining multi-scale processes.

She holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Cantabria. She has a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in engineering, both with honours from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Throughout her career, she has studied several spatial scales, from implementing nature-based solutions at the local level to analysing coastal hazards at a global scale, integrating natural variability and climate change. In her Ph.D., she assessed the impact of natural variability and climate change on global wave climate.

She was a visiting researcher at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University, where she focused on wave climate projections under climate change scenarios. Additionally, she has been a Juan de la Cierva researcher, during this period she focused on developing a long-term climate risks assessment at global scale. Her work has been published in high-impact journals, including the prestigious Nature Climate Change.

Currently, she leads the TRANSCLIMA project, which aims to develop narratives for climate change adaptation in coastal areas, evaluating unprecedented hazards arising from the shifts of tropical and extratropical cyclones. She is also part of the TROPICANA (TROPIcal Cyclones in the Anthropocene: Physics, Simulations & Attribution) project, a working network that establishes criteria for advancing the study of tropical cyclones in the context of climate change, involving experts from over 10 countries and the most relevant institutions in the field of tropical cyclones.

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