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This is my messy website where I try to share what I know and what I’m learning. You’ll find a mix of Spanish and English and I hope you’ll find it useful. Everything here is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, because I believe that knowledge needs to be open to grow.

About me?

I have a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. During my PhD I applied data assimilation techniques to improve the representation of mesoscale convective systems and associated precipitation. I haves experience working with Numerical Weather Prediction models using HPC systems and programming languages such as R, bash, and Fortran.

I’ve been a trainer and instructor for The Carpentries since 2020 and now I’m also part of their Board of Directors. I’m an RStudio certified instructor since 2019. I’ve contributed to translations projects of Carpentries’ materials and the book Teaching Tech Together. I’m currently contributing to the translation of R message in R base and recommended packages and the Internationalization of R Help Pages project.

I’m part of Expedition Science, an Argentina-based NPO, where I lead educational projects such as science camps and workshops for students and K-12 science teachers. I was part of the board in the role of treasurer from 2013 to march 2024 and now I hope to continue contributing to their governance and organization.

I’m a professor at the Data Sciences degree courses at Austral University where I teach Introduction to programming. I used to teach Data Visualization and Data Management courses at Guillermo Brown University. I develop openly licensed materials to teach and learn R from scratch, reproducibility for researchers and other topics in free-range settings.

I’m part of the R-Ladies Global team, the LatinR community, and I co-founded MetaDocencia, a teaching community for Spanish-speaking educators. Currently, I am also part of rOpenSci, where I translated the Development Guide and co-authored the rOpenSci Localization and Translation Guidelines. In 2023, I participated in the Champions program presenting the agroclimatico R package to rOpenSci peer review process.

Now, I live in Melbourne, Australia. I’m a RSE at the 21st Century Weather Centre supporting research and the development of models and high resolution simulations.

A Blog

My experience at RSAA25

This year I joined again the Research Software Asia Australia Conference from the 17th to the 19th of September 2025 as a speaker and chair in one of the sessions. And, like last year, it was one of the best online conference I’ve been part of. This is an online conference that invite research software people around Asia, Australia and New Zealand to talk about success, challenges, new tools, how the research software looks like and, this year, “Connecting with Community”.

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The image in the home page depicts Richardson’s “forecast factory” by L. Bengtsson. Richardson imagined a round theater filled with people who would calculate the finite differences at each point on the globe needed to solve the Navier Stoke equations and thus generate a weather forecast. The first 6-hour forecast took him a week and it was totally wrong. Today we have very accurate forecasts that are generated hourly. However, we are still using the principles that Richardson envisioned.
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Pao Corrales

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