Enrique Pérez Sánchez-Cañete is a researcher at the Department of Applied Physics of the University of Granada (UGR). In 2006 he finished his studies with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sciences of the UGR. From 2007-2009 he worked as technical support staff for a research project based on the regeneration of post-fire vegetation, collaborating with departments of Botany, Ecology and Applied Physics of the UGR. In 2009 he started his doctoral research and in 2010 received a master’s degree in Geophysics and Meteorology from the UGR. In 2013, he defended his dissertation entitled “Characterization of CO2 exchanges in deep soils and caves and their role in the net ecosystem carbon balance” and obtained the degree of International Doctor from the UGR and the top doctorate award in the field of science.
His teaching activity has been developed from 2011 in the Department of Applied Physics of the UGR, teaching the subjects of “Meteorology and Climatology” and “Atmospheric Pollution and Environmental Noise” in the Degree in Environmental Sciences and “Physical Foundations Applied to Structures and installations” in the Degree in Architecture. He also teaches “Micrometeorology and microclimatology” in the Master’s degree in Geophysics and Meteorology from the UGR. He has also been invited to teach in the Master’s program in Evaluation of Global Change at the University of Almería.
Enrique’s research is focused on improving knowledge of subterranean CO2 dynamics, characterizing the drivers involved in its transport and exchange with the atmosphere. His research line is primarily focused on exchanges of greenhouse gases at the ecosystem scale, with particular attention to CO2. This research line could be subdivided into five different areas in which he has based his research: 1) Ecosystem CO2 exchanges via eddy covariance systems, 2) Dynamics of subterranean CO2 fluxes by using of vertical and horizontal profiles, 3) Carbon and water exchanges at the plant level, using closed chambers, 4) CO2 surface fluxes with soil chambers and 5) Dynamics and exchanges between atmospheric air masses and caves.
More information about his research projects and publications can be found in his personal website.