Expertise: Satellite remote sensing of methane and air pollutants, methane emissions measurements, reporting and verification

Background: Alba (she/her) is an atmospheric scientist working in the Office of the Chief Scientist as part of the Environmental Defense Fund Europe team. Her current research focuses on measuring and quantifying methane from the oil and gas sector and how that translates into a robust measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) framework. Alba works with the MethaneSAT team at Environmental Defense Fund to turn satellite measurements into actionable data. Before joining Environmental Defense Fund, Alba was a scientist at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, as part of the TROPOMI satellite team. She holds a B.Sc. in applied physics from the University of Granada, a M.Sc. in meteorology from the University of Barcelona and a Ph.D in environmental physics from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, where she did research estimating nitrogen oxides emissions from cities using satellites. Alba is fluent in both Spanish (native) and English.