Eduardo Alastrué de Asenjo


Bundesstraße 53 eduardo.alastrue-de-asenjo@mpimet.mpg.de

20146 Hamburg +49 40 42838-2604

Germany edualas.github.io


Education

2022-present

PhD, Climate Physics/Modelling

International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (Hamburg, Germany)

Thesis: Influence of oceanic variations on extreme events over Europe

Oct 2024 - Dec 2024

Visiting Researcher

The University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia)

2019-2022

MSc Integrated Climate System Sciences

Universität Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)

120 ECTS, Honours

Thesis: Event Attribution of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (1.0)

2017-2018

ERASMUS+ Exchange

University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Courses of MSc Theoretical Physics and MSc Science for Energy and Sustainability

2014-2019

Bachelor’s Degree in Physics

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)

240 ECTS, Theoretical Physics track

Thesis: Climate Change: Global analysis of temperature variations in response to changes in external forcings during the instrumental period (10/10)

Publications

2025
Schaumann, F., & Alastrué de Asenjo, E. (2025). Weakening AMOC reduces ocean carbon uptake and increases the social cost of carbon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(9), e2419543122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419543122
2023
Jackson, L. C., Alastrué de Asenjo, E., Bellomo, K., Danabasoglu, G., Haak, H., Hu, A., Jungclaus, J., Lee, W., Meccia, V. L., Saenko, O., Shao, A., & Swingedouw, D. (2023). Understanding AMOC stability: The North Atlantic Hosing Model Intercomparison Project. Geoscientific Model Development, 16(7), 1975–1995. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1975-2023

Conferences

Highlighted are the contributions for which I was the presenting author:

EAERE 2024

Leuven, Belgium; 01-04.07.2024

EGU24

Vienna, Austria; 14-19.04.2024

AGU23

San Francisco, USA; 11-15.12.2023

IUGG 2023

Berlin, Germany; 11-20.07.2023

EGU22

Vienna, Austria; 23-27.05.2022

Teaching

Invited lecturer

2023 and 2024

BSc course, University of Hamburg

I taught a lecture on the topic “Climate change: oceans and cryosphere” for the Understanding Climate Change Course (BSc students) led by Prof Dr Jana Sillmann.

Teaching Assistant

2022

MSc & PhD course, University of Hamburg

I was the teaching assistant for the Climate Dynamics Course (for MSc and PhD students) lectured by Prof Dr Jochem Marotzke. I helped with questions, and corrected and graded all assignments.

Work experience

Feb 2020 - Jan 2022

Student Assistant for Johann Jungclaus, Director’s Research Group in the “Ocean in the Earth System” Department, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Hamburg, Germany)

Archive and cmorise MPI-ESM experiments (e.g., past2k). Participation in NAHosMIP by running, monitoring and post-processing MPI-ESM LR and HR experiments

April-July 2019

Internship, ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas, S.A. S.M.E. (Madrid, Spain)

BWR Fuel Element & Core Design Engineering for ERU Uranium

Scholarships

2024

MIN Faculty Graduate Center Grant for research stays abroad

2021-2022

Merit Scholarship for International Students at Universität Hamburg

2018-2019

University Complutense of Madrid (UCM) Enrolment Grant

2013-2018

Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) General Scholarship

2017-2018

ERASMUS+ Scholarship for exchange at the University of Amsterdam

2014-2015

Madrid Autonomous Community Excellence Scholarship

Technical skills

Extracurricular courses

2021

Summer course on “Arctic Marine Measurements Techniques, Operations and Transport” (10 ECTS) UNIS, Longyearbyen, Svalbard

2021

IPSL Virtual Spring School 2021 on “Climate Change: challenges and issues for the Earth Sciences” Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace

2018

Course “Reflections on our masculinities. A critical analysis and healthy alternatives” (2 ECTS) UCM, Madrid, Spain

2017

Course “Detection and prevention of sexist violence in the university” (1 ECTS) UCM, Madrid, Spain

2017

Course “Gender equality and construction of new social models for women and men” (2 ECTS) UCM, Madrid, Spain

Voluntary work

2023-present
Co-founder and co-organiser of Diverse Climates Hamburg
2022-2023
PhD representative for the IMPRS graduate school
2019-2020
Member of the Student Council for the ICSS MSc program
2018-2019
Volunteer in the Spanish NGO Inakuwa, coordinating events and fundraisings
2018
Coach in the Winter Introduction Week for the International Students Association of Amsterdam

Languages

Spanish
Native speaker
English
Fluent
German
Basic (B1)
French
Elementary (B2)