Dr Brunet is an international expert in instrumental climate reconstruction and analysis at different spatio-temporal scales. She has conducted pioneering analysis of the long-term change to air temperature in peninsular Spain as well as assessed the change in climatic extremes regionally and globally. Her 20-year involvement in the global climate monitoring work of the WMO Commission for Climatology has culminated in her recent election as President of the Commission, the first woman to hold this post in its nearly 90-year history. Dr Brunet is further involved in capacity development activities as instructor of regional workshops aimed at promoting data exchange and improving the understanding of the global change in climate extremes.