Xurxo Costoya

Biography

Research lines: Climate change. Offshore renewable energies. Physical oceanography.
Research activity:
- Climate change impact on thermohaline variability in the oceans.
- Climate change. Historical and future projections.
- Offshore wind energy assessment and classification.
- Atmospheric modelling (WRF)

General quality indicators of scientific research:

I obtained the R3 certification as an established researcher in 2023.

1. JCR articles: 38 papers in journals of Science Citation Index (11 as first author, 10 as second author), one book and two book chapters.
- Publications in Q1 journals: 25 (Q1 in the year of publication), 10 as first author.
- Publications in the first decile: 12, 5 as first author.
- Reviewer in 18 international scientific journals of Science Citation Index.

2.- One book: As enerxías renovables. Esenciais: Breviarios de divugación do saber, 2 (ISBN: 978-84-8158-873-6). 105 pp. Available at: https://secretaria.uvigo.gal/uv/web/publicaciones/public/show/355
- Two book chapters.

3. h-index: 17 (Scopus). Total citations: 852(Scopus)

4. Project involvement:
- IP of a national project (TED2021-129479A-100, Survivability of floating wind turbines, 101.200€) (https://ephyslab.uvigo.es/safe/)
- IP of two transfer contract with CETMAR (Technological Center of the Sea) for the development of the work “Estudio ambiental de las zonas clasificadas como de alto potencial acuícola”.
- 3 post-doctoral grants obtained through competitive calls: FCT from the Portuguese Government, Juan de la Cierva Formación (Spanish Government) and Juan de la Cierva Incorporación (Spanish Government)
Participation as researcher in 12 R&D projects funded through competitive calls.
- 2 European projects funded by “UE FEDER”, references: a) 0034_RISC_ML_6_E, b) 0262_MARRISK_1_E.
- 1 funded by the Spanish Minister of Science, 7 funded by Xunta de Galicia, 1 funded by Diputación de Ourense, 1 funded by UVigo.

5. Teaching experience:
- I was accredited as Lecturer/Associated Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) by ANECA in 2023.
- More than 480 teaching hours (USC and UVigo).
- 2 PhD thesis under supervision.
- 5 Graduate Final Projects supervised.
- 2 Master thesis supervised.

6. Dissemination activities:
- I have participated with 28 contributions to congresses, 22 international, and 6 national. I have made 8 oral communications at international conferences and 4 at national conferences.
- Award for the best oral communication at the XV International Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay (ISOBAY XV) held in Bilbao (06/2016).
- Two invited talks.
- Participation in a video to commemorate the Oceans International Day: https://youtu.be/CAnBj4qaZPo?t=90
- Chief Editor of the journal “Avances en Ciencias de la Tierra” (ISSN: 2172-9328) in 2018, 2019, and 2022.
- I taugh 60 hours in the University Program for Seniors (Uvigo).

7. Mobility and internationalization:
My post-doctoral stage is marked by continued mobility since I belonged to four institutions since 2016: The University of Aveiro (Portugal), the University of Santiago de Compostela, the University of A Coruña, and the University of Vigo. The main reason to explain this mobility is that I obtained three competitive grants (accumulative funding: 185,739 €) from three different institutions and that I was hired by the SEARENEW project developed at the University of A Coruña.
I obtained a post-doctoral competitive grant of the Portuguese Govern (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT) under the project entitled: Impact of climate change on the offshore wind energy resource along the western Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula (SFRH/BPD/118142/2016). Thus, i was hired by the University of Aveiro for two years (01/05/2017-30/04/2019). I worked at the CESAM (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies) and I published several papers during these years.
I am part of the WECANet COST action (CA 17105, A pan-European Network for Marine Renewable Energy), which aims to contribute to large-scale wave energy converter (WEC) array deployment with an interdisciplinary approach.
In addition, I carried out punctual collaborations in articles where I was the first author with researchers from the following institutions: GMAO-NASA (USA), IFREMER (France) and CESAM (Portugal).
I have participated as researcher in two INTERREG projects funded by European Union (FEDER Program). References: 0034-RISC-ML-6_E and 0262-MARRISK-1-E.
I have participated in the organization of 2 international conferences.