Background

If Aida grew up in the mountains, it is above all the sea which has always attracted her. And if she threw herself into oceanography studies it was because she takes an interest in the oceans in a general way, with its currents and the evolution of its temperature. In short, she has opted for a direction which is considered more theoretical by the students, physical oceanography.

Of Spanish origin, it was at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, that Aida Alvera-Azcárate carried out her studies in the sciences of the sea. In 2000 she arrived at the University of Liège, as an Erasmus student, to do a DEA in environmental modelling. It was also at the University of Liège that she did her doctorate on validating, through satellite data, a dynamic model of the Mediterranean.

Within the framework of her thesis, defended in October 2004, Aida began working on the reconstruction of satellite images and in particular on the validation of the DINEOF principal components method, developed by the GHER’s Professor Beckers. Over the course of postdoctoral studies which lasted three years, she installed the DINEOF method at the University of Southern Florida and applied to the daily reconstruction of the Gulf of Mexico. Since October 2007 Aida Alvera-Azcárate has been a FNRS postdoctoral researcher in the ULg’s GHER department.