Jon Sampedro

Biography

Jon Sampedro is a post‐doctoral researcher at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). He holds a PhD in Environmental Economics from the University of the Basque Country (UPV‐EHU) and the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3). His main research interests include Integrated Human‐Earth system modelling, Climate‐Land‐Energy‐Water (CLEW) nexus, air pollution, and human health. One of his main research lines is the
interconnection between climate change and air pollution in the context of global scenario analysis. In the last years, he has focused on the analysis of health co‐benefits associated with different climate mitigation strategies. This work has been published at leading journals, including the Lancet Planetary Health, Environment International, or Environmental Research Letters. He has also developed an open‐source tool (rfasst) that links an Integrated Assessment model (GCAM), with an air quality model (TM5‐FASST), in order to estimate a range of adverse health and agricultural effects associated with air pollution, for any predesigned climate scenario. During his research career he has established several fruitful
collaborations with numerous researchers and institutions such as the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.‐EPA) or the World Health Organization (WHO).