mandrade@atmos.umd.edu
EDUCATION
 Doctor of Phylosophy, Department of Meteorology, Univ. of Maryland (2001-04). Thesis: "Stratospheric Ozone as Determined by Regime Analysis: The Southern Hemisphere"

Master of Science, Department of Meteorology, Univ. of Maryland, USA (1999-2001).

Licenciado in Physics. Univ. "Mayor de San Andrés", La Paz, Bolivia (1991). Thesis: "Design and construction of a CO2 LASER".

Undergraduate studies at Univ. "Mayor de San Andrés", Department of Physics, La Paz, Bolivia (1985-88). Major in "Electronic Physics".

EXPERIENCE Faculty Research Assistant at the Department of Meteorology, Univ. of Maryland, College Park (2002-2004). Duties include the use of synthetic and GOME data to test the ozone algorithm for OMPS.

Graduate Research Assistant at the Department of Meteorology, Univ. of Maryland, College Park (2000-02). Advisor: Dr. Robert Hudson. Work included the developing of methods to classify the atmosphere by meteorological regimes.

Founder and researcher of the "Atmospheric Physics Laboratory" at Instituto de Investigaciones Físicas, Univ. "Mayor de San Andrés", La Paz, Bolivia.

Professor of Physics (lectures on Electromagnetism, Numerical Calculus, Experimental Physics and Mathematical Physics) at the Physics Department, Univ. "Mayor de San Andrés".

Designer and developer of Information Systems (databases) for several Bolivian Government Agencies and Private Institutions.

Researcher in LASERs and Optics at Instituto de Investigaciones Físicas, Univ. "Mayor de San Andrés".

Teaching Assistant of Numerical Calculus at Physics Department, UMSA (1986-89).
AWARDS

The South Atlantic Climate Change (SACC) Graduate Student/Young Scientist Fellowship (2002). Project: “The Total Ozone Column as a Climate Variability Indicator: The South American Case”

Lewis A. Tyler Trustee's Fund award. Project: "Implementation of a Numerical Weather Forecast model in Bolivia" (2001).

Lewis A. Tyler Trustee's Fund award. Project: "Analysis of data from Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer" (2000).

LASPAU/Fulbright Scholarship award to continue graduate studies at master level at the Department of Meteorology, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, USA (1999).

Winner (co-author) of the 1st prize. Scientific and Research Exposition organized by Univ. "Mayor de San Andrés" with the project "Solar radiation related to greenhouse effect gases" (1998).

Winner (co-author) of the 2nd prize. Scientific and Research Exposition organized by Univ. "Mayor de San Andrés" with the project "Design and construction of a CO2 laser" (1993).