Millán Millán is director of the Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (CEAM) and is one of the main environmental assessors for the

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He graduated from

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with a BASc. in 1967, and MASc in 1969, and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics and Spectroscopy in 1972, and from School of Engineering, Bilbao with a Dr. Ing. Industrial Engineering in 1986. He worked at Barringer Research Ltd in Toronto, specializing in design of instruments for geological exploration. While working there he designed electro-magnetic reels to measure

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at a mine. This design, after the Munich terrorist attacks, was reworked for

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s, still used in airports today. From 1967 on he worked designing electro-optical instruments to measure gases in

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es, and in 1968-1970 he designed COSPEC (Correlation SPECtrometer) to measure remote gases in the

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. This work was financed by NASA, and was used as his thesis in atmospheric physics. COSPEC was the first commercial instrument to measure remote atmospheric

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s in movement in real time. It received many prizes and was given the IR-100 for ‘One of the best instrumental designs in 1970' by the

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panel in

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. COSPEC appears in the

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, is currently used in more than 40 countries, and has more than 500 scientific references, including magazines such as SCIENCE and NATURE. In 1972, Millán started working for the National Meteorological Center of Canada, responsible for contaminant dispersion in the atmosphere. In 1973, he was asked by the

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Community to be the main adviser in environment and climate. He studied and optimized the system of atmospheric dispersion and contaminant measuring of the

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and RDA. He co-organized six campaigns of atmospheric contaminants in Europe during 1974-1983. Since 1974, he’s been named adviser “ad personam” of the

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, choosing the science priorities of the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Marco programs. Millán was the first person to measure the dispersal of a contaminant plume more than 400 km in 1976. This was fundamental for society to consider, that atmospheric contamination isn’t limited by the small area where it may be produced, but affects, in different measure, all the planet. It has also appeared in the movie ‘

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’ and ‘ Surviving St. Helen's’ by the

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