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-====== CES Member's Short Bios ======+====== Members' Short Bios ======
  
 ===== Mario Acosta ===== ===== Mario Acosta =====
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 ==== Matias F. Rebolledo ==== ==== Matias F. Rebolledo ====
-Recognised Researcher\\  +{{:working_groups:photo_2025-04-17_10-46-54-cropped.jpg?150 |}} 
-**Position:** \\  +**Position:** Research Engineer\\  
-**Interests:** \\  +**Interests:** Data Management, Big Data, MLOps, Spatial Analytics, Workflow Automation\\  
-**Contact:** [[alberto.sanchez@bsc.es|alberto.sanchez@bsc.es]] [[https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-sanchez-marroquin-98914723a/|LinkedIn]]\\ +**Contact:** [[matias.rebolledo@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/matias-felipe-rebolledo-871494251//|LinkedIn]]\\ 
  
-**Short Bio:**+**Short Bio:** Matías is a Data Engineer in the Data and Diagnostics Team. He holds a Master's degree in Statistics (PUCV), degree in Agronomic Engineering (UChile) and previously worked at Chile's National Statistics Institute implementing data lake solutions with Minio, Apache Spark, and Trino. His experience includes processing geographic data, designing validation workflows, and developing automation tools. He has expertise in PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Python, R, and container technologies. Matías is interested in scalable data architectures and improving intensive data workflows along with code features for HPC applications.
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 ==== Paula Serrano ==== ==== Paula Serrano ====
-Recognised Researcher\\  +{{:working_groups:paula_serrano.jpg?nolink&150 |}}\\  
-**Position:** \\  +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\  
-**Interests:** \\  +**Interests:** HPC, Data Science, Computer Vision, ML, Software development\\  
-**Contact:** [[alberto.sanchez@bsc.es|alberto.sanchez@bsc.es]] [[https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-sanchez-marroquin-98914723a/|LinkedIn]]\\ +**Contact:** [[paula.serrano@bsc.es|paula.serrano@bsc.es]] [[http://linkedin.com/in/paula-serrano-sierra|LinkedIn]] \\
  
-**Short Bio:**+**Short Bio:** Paula is a Junior Research Engineer in the Data and Diagnostics Team. She holds a Bachelors's degree in Data Engineering from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Previously, she was a research intern in Port d'Informació Científica where she collaborated in a research project related to the CMS experiment at CERN. She joined the Computational Earth Sciences group in March 2024.
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 ==== Raul Capellan ==== ==== Raul Capellan ====
-Recognised Researcher\\  + 
-**Position:** \\ +**Position:**  Researcher Engineer\\ 
 **Interests:** \\  **Interests:** \\ 
-**Contact:** [[alberto.sanchez@bsc.es|alberto.sanchez@bsc.es]] [[https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-sanchez-marroquin-98914723a/|LinkedIn]]\\ +**Contact:** [[raul.capellan@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/ra%C3%BAl-capell%C3%A1n-14a8b012a//|LinkedIn]]\\ 
  
 **Short Bio:** **Short Bio:**
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 ==== Rebeca Nunes ==== ==== Rebeca Nunes ====
-Recognised Researcher\\  +{{:working_groups:rebeca_nunes.jpeg?150 |}} 
-**Position:** \\  +**Position:** Research Engineer\\  
-**Interests:** \\  +**Interests:** Software Engineering, Web Development, Data Visualization\\  
-**Contact:** [[alberto.sanchez@bsc.es|alberto.sanchez@bsc.es]] [[https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-sanchez-marroquin-98914723a/|LinkedIn]]\\ +**Contact:** [[rebeca.nunes@bsc.es|rebeca.nunes@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecanrod/|LinkedIn]]\\ 
  
-**Short Bio:**+**Short Bio:** Rebeca holds a BE in Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Amazonas (Brazil) and an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Degree in Geospatial Technologies from the Jaume I University (Spain), the University of Muenster (Germany), and NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal). She has experience with software development. In 2025, Rebeca joined the Data and Diagnostics team within the Computational Earth Sciences group at the BSC.
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 ==== Rodrigo Mendes ==== ==== Rodrigo Mendes ====
-Recognised Researcher\\  +{{:working_groups:members:rodrigo_mendes.jpg?150 |}}  
-**Position:** \\  +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\  
-**Interests:** \\  +**Interests:** Software Development, Big Data, Cloud Computing and Parallel Computing, Tennis\\  
-**Contact:** [[alberto.sanchez@bsc.es|alberto.sanchez@bsc.es]] [[https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-sanchez-marroquin-98914723a/|LinkedIn]]\\ +**Contact:** [[rodrigo.mendes@bsc.es|rodrigo.mendes@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrigo-mendes-pinto/|LinkedIn]] 
  
-**Short Bio:**+**Short Bio:** I work in the Data and Diagnostics Team and initially develop a pipeline to download and format climate data, as well as integrate it into the current workflow. 
 +I have a master's degree in architecture (University of Brasilia) and have held positions of manager, director and undersecretary as public employee in Brazil. I'm currently studying Computer Engineering (Uaberta), and have taken courses and developed projects using Python.
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 ==== Santiago Ramirez ==== ==== Santiago Ramirez ====
-Recognised Researcher\\  +{{:working_groups:sramirez.jpeg?150 |}}  
-**Position:** \\  +**Position:** Research Engineer\\  
-**Interests:** \\  +**Interests:** FullStack Web Development, Data Management, UI/UX\\  
-**Contact:** [[alberto.sanchez@bsc.es|alberto.sanchez@bsc.es]] [[https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-sanchez-marroquin-98914723a/|LinkedIn]]\\ +**Contact:** [[santiago.ramirez@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/santiramirezagudelo//|LinkedIn]]\\  
 + 
 +**Short Bio:** Santiago is a Research Engineer on the Data and Diagnostics Team. He holds a Posgraduate Degree in FullStack Web Development from Universitat Politecnic of Catalunya (UPC). Additionally, he has prior experience in FullStack software development. He also studied philosophy in Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia).
  
-**Short Bio:** 
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 ==== Saskia Loosveldtz ==== ==== Saskia Loosveldtz ====
-Recognised Researcher\\  +  
-**Position:** \\ +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 **Interests:** \\  **Interests:** \\ 
-**Contact:** [[alberto.sanchez@bsc.es|alberto.sanchez@bsc.es]] [[https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-sanchez-marroquin-98914723a/|LinkedIn]]\\ +**Contact:** [[saskia.loosveldt@bsc.es|saskia.loosveldt@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/saskialt/|LinkedIn]]\\ 
  
-**Short Bio:**+**Short Bio:** Saskia has an undergraduate degree in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona and a master degree in Numerical Methods for Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. During her undergrad, she got introduced to the field of High Performance Computing while being an intern at HPCNow!, a consultancy company for supercomputing services. After finishing her master degree, she started to work at the Data and Diagnostics team. Her work focuses on the post-process of climate model output variables. 
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 ==== Stamen Miroslavov ==== ==== Stamen Miroslavov ====
-Recognised Researcher\\  +{{:working_groups:stamen_picture.jpg?150 |}} \\ 
-**Position:** \\  +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer (Junior IT Specialist)\\  
-**Interests:** \\  +**Interests:** Systems and Servers Administration, Computer Science, Software Engineering, High Performance Computing, Biomechanics, Cybersecurity, Mountains, Climbing\\  
-**Contact:** [[alberto.sanchez@bsc.es|alberto.sanchez@bsc.es]] [[https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-sanchez-marroquin-98914723a/|LinkedIn]]\\ +**Contact:** [[stamen.miroslavov@bsc.es|stamen.miroslavov@bsc.es]], [[https://es.linkedin.com/in/stamen-miroslavov-minkov|LinkedIn]] \\ 
  
-**Short Bio:**+**Short Bio:** Stamen holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Barcelona (UB) and a MSc in Biomedical Engineering shared between UB and UPC (Polytechnic University of Catalonia). With over 4 years of professional experience in IT fields and System Administration (including an internship in the Systems-Servers department of Pavelló Rosa in UB (2018-2019)), Stamen is currently a member of the Data and Diagnostics Team (DDT) in the Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group in the Earth Sciences department of BSC. His main duties involve managing the virtual machines and the software installations relative to these, especially for the Bsceshub project, as well as helping the members of the department with the diverse IT issues they may encounter. Stamen joined BSC in March 2023.
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 ==== Supriyo Ghosh ==== ==== Supriyo Ghosh ====
-Recognised Researcher\\  +{{:working_groups:supriyo_ghosh_photo.png?150 |}} \\  
-**Position:** \\ +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer (Python Developer)\\ 
 **Interests:** \\  **Interests:** \\ 
-**Contact:** [[alberto.sanchez@bsc.es|alberto.sanchez@bsc.es]] [[https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-sanchez-marroquin-98914723a/|LinkedIn]]\\ +**Contact:** [[supriyo.ghosh@bsc.es|supriyo.ghosh@bsc.es]], [[https://es.linkedin.com/in/ghossh|LinkedIn]]
  
-**Short Bio:**+**Short Bio:** Supriyo is working on developing diagnostics for the Destination earth project and is responsible for data processing in ESMValTool. He joined BSC on Jan 2023. Before that, he was working as a research fellow at National Center for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa, India. He holds a masters degree in Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Hyderabad (IN) and bachelors degree in Physics from the University of Burdwan (IN). 
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 ==== Theertha Kariyathan ==== ==== Theertha Kariyathan ====
-Recognised Researcher\\  + 
-**Position:** \\ +**Position:** Research Engineer\\ 
 **Interests:** \\  **Interests:** \\ 
-**Contact:** [[alberto.sanchez@bsc.es|alberto.sanchez@bsc.es]] [[https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-sanchez-marroquin-98914723a/|LinkedIn]]\\ +**Contact:** [[theertha.kariyathan@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/theertha-kariyathan/|LinkedIn]]\\ 
  
 **Short Bio:** **Short Bio:**
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 ==== Victoria Agudetse ==== ==== Victoria Agudetse ====
-Recognised Researcher\\  +{{:working_groups:victoria_agudetse.jpg?150 |}} 
-**Position:** \\ +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** Climate modeling and forecasting, statistical analysis, computational science\\  
 +**Contact:** [[victoria.agudetse@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/vict%C3%B2ria-agudetse-roures-b6b38a150/|LinkedIn]]\\  
 + 
 +**Short Bio:** Victòria Agudetse holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics and a Master's degree in Meteorology, both earned at Universitat de Barcelona (UB). She joined the Computational Earth Sciences department in January 2022 to work on operational climate services. 
 +---- 
 +======= High Performance Computing for Earth Sciences Team (HPC4EST) ======= 
 +===== Xavier Yepes ===== 
 +{{:working_groups:members:xavier_yepes.jpg?120 |}} 
 + 
 +Computer Engineer specialized in Computer Architecture and HPC\\  
 +**Position:** Team Leader\\ 
 +**Interests:** Earth Sciences Modelling, Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing\\ 
 +**Contact:** [[xavier.yepes@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/xavieryepes|LinkedIn]]\\  
 + 
 +**Short Bio:** Xavier Yepes is a research engineer from the Computational Earth Sciences Group of the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He joined BSC in 2015 to work on applying High Performance Computing (HPC) to Earth system models (ESMs). His main research lines include topics on scalability and performance analysis of ESMs, characterization of ESM workflows to improve their throughput, and optimization of the I/O process of ESMs by adopting scalable parallel I/O solutions. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering with specialization in computer architecture and a master’s degree in Innovation and Research in Informatics (MIRI) with specialization in HPC from the Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona (FIB) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He was awarded the BSC Severo Ochoa Scholarship for his master’s degree.  
 +---- 
 + 
 +==== Aitor Sánchez ==== 
 +{{:working_groups:aitor_sanchez.jpg?120 |}} 
 +**Position:** R2 Recognised Researcher\\  
 +**Interests:** Climate Modeling and Forecasting, Statistical Analysis, Computational Science\\  
 +**Contact:** [[aitor.sanchez@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/aitor-sanchez-mansilla-128351387|LinkedIn]]\\  
 + 
 +**Short Bio:** Aitor holds a bachelor in Physics and a PhD in Computational Quantum Chemistry. He has worked with a wide range of powerful supercomputers with the aim of developing parallel and accelerated code for Chemistry and Quantum Physics. He joined the BSC in March 2025 to work on atmospheric and oceanic tools inside the CES group. 
 +---- 
 + 
 +==== Alexey Medvedev ==== 
 +{{:working_groups:avm.jpg?nolink&120 |}} 
 +**Position:** Senior Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** Parallel Programming, CUDA, MPI, HPC, Generative Programming, Software Design\\  
 +**Contact:** [[alexey.medvedev@bsc.es]] [[https://es.linkedin.com/in/alexey-medvedev-53105b19|LinkedIn]]\\  
 + 
 +**Short Bio:** Alexey Medvedev is a Senior Research Engineer from the Performance Team of Computational Earth Sciences Group of the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He joined BSC in 2023 to work on accelerator support implementation for Earth system models. His previous experience is related to complex software design in various fields of Math Modeling, including Fluid Dynamics, Solid Mechanics and others. The software packages he was working on are able to run on parallel scales up to 200 nodes equipped with NVIDIA accelerators. He has certain experience in design and implementation of such HPC components as linear algebra libraries and MPI standard implementation libraries. His scientific interests include various practical aspects of parallel computing, he is a co-author and author of 8 papers in Scopus-indexed journals, author of 1 seminar course. He received his Master Degree from Cybernetics Faculty of Tula State University (Russia) in 2001. 
 +---- 
 + 
 +==== Andrew Forembski ==== 
 +{{:working_groups:andrew_forembski.jpg?120 |}} 
 +**Position:** Senior Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** HW/SW co-design, High-Performance Computing, Hardware Accelerators\\  
 +**Contact:** [[antoni.portero@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-forembski-phd-612a15126/|LinkedIn]]\\  
 + 
 +**Short Bio:** Andrew holds a Bachelor's degree in Applied Physics and a PhD in Computational Quantum Mechanics, both from Dublin City University. His doctoral project involved the development of a Configuration Interaction Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation solver for the simulation of ultra-short laser pulse interactions with He. Beyond academia he has also worked as an embedded software engineer at Intel Movidius and Ubotica Technologies. He joined the Performance Team in September 2024. His focus is on GPU programming. 
 +---- 
 +==== Antoni Portero ==== 
 +{{:working_groups:PAT_photo1_low_res.jpg?120 |}} 
 +**Position:** RE2 Recognised Researcher\\  
 +**Interests:** Parallel Programming, Heterogeneous Computing, CUDA/HIP, HPC, Numerical Algorithms, Quantum Mechanics \\  
 +**Contact:** [[antoni.portero@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoni-portero-3490581/|LinkedIn]]\\  
 + 
 +**Short Bio:** Antoni received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering, specializing in Microelectronics, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He has contributed to several H2020 projects, including power-aware computing (i.e. HARPA and READEX) and simulations of large HPC systems (i.e. TERAFLUX and the European Processor Initiative). His research interests include system-level design for embedded and high-performance systems, multiprocessor architectures, and networks-on-chip (NoC). He is a member of HiPEAC and a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM. In April 2025, Antoni joined the Performance Team within the Computational Earth Sciences group at the BSC. 
 +---- 
 +==== Carlos Peña ==== 
 +{{:working_groups:carlos-peña.jpeg?120 |}} 
 +**Position:** Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** Plasma Physics, Numerical Methods, Art\\  
 +**Contact:** [[carlos.penadepedro@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-pe%C3%B1a-de-pedro-41165615a/|LinkedIn]]\\  
 + 
 +**Short Bio:** Carlos Peña has a Computer Science's degree, granted at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He is currently working in improving the Nucleus for European Modeling of the Ocean (NEMO). 
 +---- 
 + 
 +==== Carlos Romero==== 
 +{{:working_groups:cromero.jpg?120 |}} 
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** High Performance Computers, Parallel Computing\\  
 +**Contact:** [[carlos.romero@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrommad/|LinkedIn]]\\  
 + 
 +**Short Bio:** Carlos received his BSc in Mathematics and BSc in Physics from the University of Sevilla and his MSc in Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion from the University of Aix-Marseille. He has conducted research at the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Frequency Physics, the Department of Analysis and Design of Wind Turbines at CENER, and the Fusion group at the University of Seville, working on a variety of subjects including radar-array optimisation, data science, and plasma physics HPC. Prior to joining the Performance Team in May 2025 as HPC Scientific Software Engineer, Carlos was a member of the Fusion group at CASE Department. 
 + 
 +---- 
 +==== Christian Guzman ==== 
 +{{:working_groups:christian_guzman_2022.jpg?120 |}} 
 +**Position:** Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** HPC performance, Scientific Models, Computer Architecture\\  
 +**Contact:** [[christian.guzman@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-guzman-ruiz-340626141/|LinkedIn]]\\  
 + 
 +**Short Bio:** Christian is a PhD Student in Computer Science for High-Performance Computing at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), collaborating with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Developed a GPU chemical solver for Earth System Models, using as a test-bed the chemistry Across Multiple Phases (CAMP) module alongside the Multiscale Online Nonhydrostatic Atmosphere Chemistry Model (MONARCH) and contributing to the most computational and logic part from a performance point of view. 
 +---- 
 +==== Iria Ayan ==== 
 +{{:working_groups:foto2.jpg?120 |}} 
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 **Interests:** \\  **Interests:** \\ 
-**Contact:** [[alberto.sanchez@bsc.es|alberto.sanchez@bsc.es]] [[https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-sanchez-marroquin-98914723a/|LinkedIn]]\\ +**Contact:** [[iria.ayan@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/iria-ayan-m%C3%ADguez-825982131/|LinkedIn]]\\ 
  
-**Short Bio:**+**Short Bio:** Iria Ayan is a physicist from University of Barcelona (UB) with a Master in Astrophysics, Particle Physics and Cosmology from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB). Her main experience has been related to high energy astrophysics and, in particular, she has focused on the study of gamma-ray binary systems. She has published in Proceeding of Science her research on searching for new gamma-ray binaries in order to be detected by new future telescopes such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Since 2019, she works at BSC in the Computation Earth Sciences group developing new features in the land-use model (H-TESSEL) embedded in the IFS weather model.    
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 +==== Kai Keller ====
 +{{:working_groups:at_bsc.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Postdoctoral Researcher\\ 
 +**Interests:** Numerical Climate Predictio\\ 
 +**Contact:** [[kai.keller@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellerkai|LinkedIn]]\\ 
  
 +**Short Bio:** Kai Keller received an MSc in Physics at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and obtained a Ph.D. in computer science at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain). In the past few years, he worked on resiliency for applications in high-performance computing, where his focus has been on resilience for large ensemble data assimilation frameworks. He is currently working on the Destination Earth project.   
 +----
 +==== Maitane Fariñas ====
 +{{:working_groups:maitane_farinas.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** Computational Physics, Computational Modelling, Earth Sciences\\ 
 +**Contact:** [[maitane.farinas@bsc.es]] [[http://www.linkedin.com/in/maitane-fariñas-argoitia|LinkedIn]]\\ 
  
 +**Short Bio:** Maitane has a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) and a Master's degree in Atomistic and Multiscale Computational Modelling from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). She joined the Performance Team of the Computational Earth Sciences group on April 2024 as a Junior Research Engineer.     
 +----
 +==== Marcel Cases ====
 +{{:working_groups:marcel_cases.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** Computer Languages, Computational Modeling, Optimization, HPC, ML, Computer Networks, Logic Synthesis (FPGA)\\ 
 +**Contact:** [[marcel.cases@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelcases|LinkedIn]] [[https://marcelcases.com|Personal Website]]\\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Marcel is a Research Engineer in the Performance Team. He is an Electronics Engineering graduate (UPC) and has a Master in Innovation and Research in Informatics (MIRI, FIB-UPC). He joined BSC in May 2024 after having gained experience in software developement, modeling, mathematical optimization and forecasting for the energy and transportation industries in different research and innovation teams. 
 +----
 +==== Marta Alerany ====
 +{{:working_groups:martaalerany.jpg?nolink&120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** Computational Physics, HPC, Earth Sciences\\  
 +**Contact:** [[marta.alerany@bsc.es]] [[http://www.linkedin.com/in/maleranysolé|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Marta joined the Performance Team of the Computational Earth Sciences group on April 2024 as a Junior Research Engineer. She holds a double Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Barcelona (UB), as well as a Master's in Applied Physics from the Technical University of Eindhoven (TUe).
 +----
 +==== Nicholas Abel ====
 +{{:working_groups:nabel.png?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** Numerical Methods, HPC, Parallel Programming, CFD\\  
 +**Contact:** [[nicholas.abel@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/abelnt/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Nick received his BSc and MSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico, USA in 2017 and 2020. He has worked on a variety of parallel scientific codes in the fields computational fluid dynamics and computational electromagnetics. Prior to joining CES, he was a researcher in the CASE department at BSC. In May 2025, Nick joined the performance team as an HPC engineer.
 +----
 +==== Okke van Eck ====
 +{{:working_groups:foto_okke.jpg?nolink&120 |}}
 +**Position:** Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** Complexity Theory, HPC\\  
 +**Contact:** [[okke.vaneck@bsc.es]] [[https://linkedin.com/in/okkevaneck|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Okke finished his bachelor's Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam in 2020, and master's Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in 2023. His interests are mainly in complexity theory and high performance computing. This resulted in some published papers during his masters into the complexity behind protein folding within the HP-model. Since September 2023, he works on the Destination Earth project for BSC where he will port the digital twins to GPUs.
 +----
 +==== Oriol Tintó ====
 +
 +**Position:** Recognised Researcher\\ 
 +**Interests:** \\  
 +**Contact:** [[oriol.tinto@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/oriol-tint%C3%B3-95a2b61a6/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** \\  
 +
 +----
 +==== Pablo Aparici ====
 +{{:working_groups:pablo_aparici.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** Software Development, System Design, Massive Information Search and Analysis\\ 
 +**Contact:** [[pablo.aparici@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/pablo-aparici-villalta/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Pablo is a 4rd year student of Bachelor Degree in Informatics Engineering, Mention in Software Engineering at FIB-UPC. Currently, he is developing his thesis "Computational metrics analysis for climate models", which centers on calculating and visualizing new metrics and statistics for climate models using the data from Autosubmit databases.
 +----
 +==== Roc Salvador Andreazini ====
 +{{:working_groups:roc_salvador.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** HPC, Computational complexity \\  
 +**Contact:** [[roc.salvador@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/roc-salvador/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Roc is a junior research engineer in the Earth Sciences group and a Performance team member. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona (FIB). He will start the MSc in Research and Innovation in september 2023 at FIB. In the PT, he works in automatic profiling tools for the ESiWACE project. Roc joined BSC in June 2023.
 +----
 +==== Rommel Quintanilla ====
 +{{:working_groups:rommel_quintanilla.jpg?nolink&120 |}}
 +**Position:** Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** GPU computing, HPC \\  
 +**Contact:** [[rommel.quintanilla@bsc.es]] [[https://es.linkedin.com/in/rommelqc|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Rommel holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Federal Fluminense, Brazil. He has experience in parallel and distributed software development. Professionally, he worked as a software intern at the Computational and Dimensional Metrology Laboratory, associated with the Fluminense Federal University and the Brazilian state-owned Petrobras, where he automated a process of detecting geological features in oil well drilling images. Also, he was a C++ software engineer at BlazingDB Inc., where he was in charge of the development of new functionalities for the distributed SQL database engine on NVIDIA GPUs called BlazingSQL. Afterwards, he worked as a C++ software engineer for Voltron Data Inc., a startup around the in-memory format Apache Arrow that develops an ecosystem of portable tools to support high-performance computing for columnar data analysis. He joined the Computational Earth Sciences department in August 2023.
 +----
 +
 +==== Sergi Palomas ====
 +{{:working_groups:sergi_palomas.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** \\  
 +**Contact:** [[sergi.palomas@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergi-palomas-martinez-51b564142/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Sergi is a Research Engineer in the Performance Team. He's got a bachelor in Computer Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and he is finishing the MSc in HPC at the Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona. Currently, he is in charge of the performance analysis of coupled experiments. Assessing Climate prediction and Atmospheric composition members to run their coupled experiments more efficiently by balancing multiple components: number of cores, mapping, scalability, etc.
 +----
 +
 +==== Simone Vacondio ====
 +
 +**Position:** Recognised Researcher\\ 
 +**Interests:** \\  
 +**Contact:** [[simone.vancondio@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-vacondio-8760a6304/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** 
 +
 +----
 +==== Victor Correal ====
 +
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** High Performance Computing, Parallel Computing, Software Developing \\  
 +**Contact:** [[victor.correal@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-correal-ramos/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Victor Correal is a last year student of computer science degree (computer engineering mention). Victor has two years experience in the HPC field related with the drug discovery. He joined BSC in February 2023.
 +----
 +
 +======= Models and Worflows Team (MWT) =======
 +
 +===== Francesca Macchia =====
 +{{:working_groups:fmacchia.jpg?120 |}}
 +
 +**Position:** Team Leader \\
 +**Interests:** Workflows, Earth system models, High Performance Computing\\ 
 +**Contact:** [[francesca.macchia@bsc.es]]  [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesca-macchia-22b0a6155/|LinkedIn]] \\
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Francesca Macchia holds a MSc degree cum laude in Computer Engineering at the University of Salento (Italy), Francesca starts her research activity in the field of high-performance computing working in the Department of Engineering for Innovation of the same university. From 2013 to 2017 she worked at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Changes (Italy), focusing on optimization and parallelization of hydrodynamic models and the design and development of a system to handle ensemble simulations and perform data assimilation in oceanic models. Since 2017, she is a Research Engineer in the Computational Earth Science (CES) group at the Earth Sciences department in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), developing the workflow of the Multiscale Online Non-hydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry model (MONARCH) in collaboration with Atmospheric Composition group. 
 +----
 +===== Gilbert Montané =====
 +{{:working_groups:members:gmontane.jpg?120 |}}
 +
 +**Position:** Team Leader \\
 +**Interests:** Meteorology, Numerical Weather Prediction, Earth System Models, Software Development\\ 
 +**Contact:** [[gilbert.montane@bsc.es]]  [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/gimonpin|LinkedIn]] \\
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Gilbert Montané holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), a MSc in Project Management from the Ramón Llull University (La Salle, URL) and a Master's degree in Meteorology from the University of Barcelona (UB). After working some years as a Software Engineer in a multinational company, in 2018 he joined the Models & Workflows team (Computational Earth Sciences group, Earth Sciences department) as a Research Engineer, working on the development of the workflow to run the NMMB-MONARCH model using the Autosubmit workflow manager (Auto-MONARCH) and giving support to the Atmospheric Composition group.
 +----
 +==== Aina Gaya ====
 +{{:working_groups:aina_gaya.jpg?100 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** Computational Physics, HPC\\  
 +**Contact:** [[aina.gayayavila@bsc.es]] [[https://at.linkedin.com/in/ainagaya|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Aina Gaya is a physicist in the Computational Earth Sciences group, Models & Workflows team. She holds a bachelor in Physics from the University of Barcelona. During her bachelor, she did internships at the Institute of Complex Systems and at the Soft Matter Laboratory Group.
 +----
 +
 +==== Alba Martínez ====
 +{{:working_groups:alba_martinez.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** Computational Physics, Quantum Technologies, Machine Learning\\  
 +**Contact:** [[alba.martinez@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/albamartinezmarimon/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Alba holds a Bachelor's Degree in Fundamental Physics and a Postgraduate Degree in Data Science and Machine Learning from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). In 2023, she completed an internship with the Hadronic, Nuclear and Atomic Physics Group, focusing on machine learning for many-body quantum systems. She is currently part of the Models and Workflows Team in the Computational Earth Sciences group. 
 +----
 +==== Alejandro García ====
 +{{:working_groups:alejandro_garcia.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** Earth Sciences, Computational Sciences\\  
 +**Contact:** [[alejandro.garcia@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/al-garcialopez/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app|LinkedIn]] \\
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Alejandro García holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics, earned at University of Murcia, and obtained the Master's degree in Earth Sciences at Saint Francis Xavier University. Before joining the CES department, he worked at University of Murcia within the Regional Atmospheric Modelling (MAR) Group. Joined the CES department in May 2022 to work in the model and workflows team.
 +----
 +==== Artur Viñas ====
 +{{:working_groups:artur_vinas.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:**  Software Development, Computational Physics, Earth Sciences\\  
 +**Contact:** [[artur.vinas@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-vi%C3%B1as-ferran-b5a98128b/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Artur Viñas is a Junior Research Engineer in the Models and Workflows Team. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Physics from the University of Barcelona (UB). He joined the Computational Earth Sciences group in May 2024.
 +
 +----
 +==== Breixo Soliño ====
 +{{:working_groups:members:brei-profile.png?150 |}}
 +**Position:** Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:**  Artificial Intelligence, HPC, Automation, Teaching\\  
 +**Contact:** [[breixo.solino@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-solino/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Breixo Soliño received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Santiago de Compostela and a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Utrecht. They worked as a Junior Research Software Engineer (RSE) at the Netherlands eScience Center and as an RSE for the German Aerospace Center (DLR), providing Climate Scientists with AI, Python and HPC support. They joined the Models and Workflows team in 2025.
 +
 +----
 +==== Bruno de Paula ====
 +{{:working_groups:bruno_de_paula_kinoshita.png?nolink&120 |}}
 +**Position:** Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:**  Open Source, NLP, Linked Data, Ontologies, Reasoners, Fuzzy Logic, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Software Development, Data Journalism, SciArt\\  
 +**Contact:** [[bruno.depaulakinoshita@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/brunopkinoshita/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Bruno de Paula has a Bachelor degree in Information Systems from the Mackenzie University in São Paulo, Brazil. Prior to joining the BSC he was working on the Common Workflow Language (CWL) project hired by Curii (USA) but working from Auckland, New Zealand. Before that he worked on the Cylc workflow manager with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, in a project funded by the UK-Met Office/Unified Model. At NIWA he also worked on other projects such as EcoConnect Java web, THREDDS/NetCDF data serving, OGC API's and ArcGIS for gridded data, Air Quality R shiny applications, web applications for citizen science projects and for sensor data, configuration management, bruker solar tracker, software security reviews, metadata and data management, and others. He joined the BSC in September 2022 to work with Miguel Castrillo and his team on Autosubmit and related projects as a Workflow Engineer. He is involved with several Open Source projects and is an Apache Software Foundation member.
 +
 +----
 +
 +==== Carles Tena ====
 +{{:working_groups:members:ctena.jpeg?120 |}}
 +
 +**Position:** Computer Engineer specialized in Computer Architecture and HPC\\ 
 +**Interests:**  [[models:caliope:caliope|CALIOPE]], [[models:caliope:caliope#WRF|WRF]], [[models:caliope:caliope#HERMES|HERMESv2]], [[https://earth.bsc.es/gitlab/es/hermesv3_gr|HERMESv3_GR]], [[https://earth.bsc.es/gitlab/es/hermesv3_bu|HERMESv3_BU]], [[models:caliope:caliope#CMAQ|CMAQ]], Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing\\  
 +**Contact:** [[carles.tena@bsc.es]] [[https://es.linkedin.com/pub/carles-tena-medina/64/687/358|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Carles Tena holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science (UAB) and MSc in Computational Mathematics (URV). Specialist in Python-based modelling and workflows for emissions, meteorology, and air quality forecasting. He coordinates the technical development of HERMESv3 emission models, has led the air quality forecast for Mexico City, and contributed to the CALIOPE system and national forecasts for Spain. At the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), he supports scientists with HPC-related technical challenges and develops optimized frameworks for efficient use of computational resources. His work includes several scientific papers as co-author and the supervision of a master’s thesis.
 +
 +----
 +==== Carmen Piñero ====
 +{{:working_groups:carmen_pinero.jpeg?nolink&120 |}}
 +
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:**  Software Development, HPC, Computational Physics, Earth Sciences, Physics of Complex System\\  
 +**Contact:** [[carmen.pinero@bsc.es]]\\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Carmen is a Junior Research Engineer in the Models and Workflows Team. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Physics from the University of Barcelona (UB). She joined the Computational Earth Sciences group in February 2024.
 +
 +----
 +
 +==== Celia Ferruz ====
 +{{:working_groups:celia_profile.jpeg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** Meteorology, HPC, Air Quality Forecast\\  
 +**Contact:** [[celia.ferruz@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/celia-ferruz-3b0671273/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Celia Ferruz holds a bachelor in Applied Physics by the Universitat de Barcelona. She did an internship at the Meteorology department of UB focusing on the imaging of ceilometer data. Her final degree thesis focused on the characterization of an environmental episode due to a Saharan dust outbreak in Barcelona using different data sources. She joined BSC in March 2025 to work on operational air quality forecasts inside the CES group.  
 +
 +----
 +==== Damien McClain ====
 +{{:working_groups:damien_mcclain.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** Workflow Managment, Software Development, Robots, Cycling, Hiking, Snowboarding\\  
 +**Contact:** [[damien.mcclain@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/damien-mcclain/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Damien McClain holds a Bachelor's in biology and mathematics from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, USA. He worked in human diagnostic genetics for 3 years and then at a synthetic biology company for 5 years in Boston, USA. There he learned to code and wrote many scripts using Python to organize and manipulate thousands of samples at once in complex long-running biological processes in various biological hosts. These scripts enabled lab users to scale up their lab processes via various robots and ensured quality via experimental and process controls, as well as ensured organized data return via attaching metadata.
 +----
 +==== Daniel Beltrán ====
 +{{:working_groups:daniel_beltran.jpg?120 |}} 
 +**Position:** Workflow Management Software Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** High Performance Computing, computer architecture , Workflows\\  
 +**Contact:** [[daniel.beltran@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-beltr%C3%A1n-mora-027baa104/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** 
 +
 +----
 +==== Eric Ferrer ====
 +{{:working_groups:eferre1.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** Computer Sciences, Artificial Inteligence, Big Data\\  
 +**Contact:** [[eric.ferrer@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-ferrer-0a52001b8/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Eric Ferrer is a Computer Science's graduate for the university Jaume I of Castellón and has a master in robotics by the Ecole Centrale Nantes and Jaume I of Castellón. Joined the CES department in January 2021 to work in the workflows team.
 +
 +----
 +==== Erick F. Doria ====
 +
 +**Position:** RE1 Workflow Management Software Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** HPC, Workflow Managment, Software Developing\\  
 +**Contact:** [[erick.doria@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/erick-lopes-irl/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Erick Lopes holds a bachelor in Computer Science by the Mackenzie Presbyterian University and a Higher Diploma in Software Engineer by the National College of Ireland. He worked in a Workflow Management Research Project in Brazil in a project dedicated to assist the healthy system identify and support kids with special needs developing a decision making platform using a workflow tool. He has worked for 3 years as a software developer with a eCRM platform developed dedicated to assist a number of companies to manage their internal infrastructure and demands for a number of different areas.
 +
 +----
 +==== Francesc Roura ====
 +{{:working_groups:francesc_roura_new.png?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\ 
 +**Interests:** Physicist, Atmospheric scientist and a bit of a glaciologist with interest in coding\\   
 +**Contact:** [[francesc.roura@bsc.es]] [[https://at.linkedin.com/in/francescroura|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Francesc Roura is a physicist in the Computational Earth Sciences group, Models and Workflows team. Francesc holds a MSc in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. During the MSc he worked as software developer at the Open Global Glacier Model (OGGM) group at the same university. Previously he was enrolled in the ESS group in the Decathlon project (2019-2020), providing seasonal and subseasonal tailored forecasts. He holds a bachelor in Physics from the University of Barcelona. During the bachelor he did some internships: remote sensing in the Catalan Met office (Meteocat), data analist in GAMA group in UB and cloudiness analysis at the Meteorology group at the university of Girona (UdG). He is currently working at the Destination Earth project. He loves music and mountains.
 +
 +----
 +==== Hannah E. Ross ====
 +{{:working_groups:nersc_headshot.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** R2 Recognized Researcher\\  
 +**Interests:** Computational Physics, Atmosphere Models, Performance Optimization \\  
 +**Contact:** [[hannah.ross@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-ross-phd/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Hannah obtained an integrated masters in Natural Sciences (physics and computer science) from Durham University and then did a PhD at the University of Sussex in computational astrophysics. She worked in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoc in the same topic. Her research in astrophysics focused on adding new physics to massively parallel cosmological simulations to be run on HPC systems. She then transitioned to work in climate science in the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (also at Lawrence Berkeley national Lab.) Here her work focused on optimizing the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) and porting the Mellor-Yamada-Nakanishi-Niino (a moist turbulence parameterization scheme for the planetary boundary layer) from legacy Fortran to GPU capable C++. In parallel she worked in a startup, Salo Science, simulating the spread of forest fires in California. She joined the Computational Earth Sciences group in December 2024 and is now a part of the Performance and Models & Workflows Teams in the Computational Earth Sciences Group.
 +
 +----
 +==== Ivan Alsina ====
 +
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** \\  
 +**Contact:** [[ivan.alsina@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanalsinaferrer/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** 
 +
 +----
 +==== Joan Bernat ====
 +{{:working_groups:joan_bernat.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Undergraduate Student\\  
 +**Interests:** Parallel Programming, HPC, Performance Optimitzation\\  
 +**Contact:** [[hjoan.bernat@bsc.es]]  [[joan.bernat@autonoma.cat]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/joan-bernat-a21849199/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Joan is currently doing an Internship at the Models and Workflows Team of Computational Earth Science Group. He is currently a 4rd year student of Bachelor Degree in Data Engineering at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He will be working on his tesis "Refactoring, Parallelazing and Optimizing the meteorological model MONARCH". He is mainly interested in parallel programming and performance optimitzation. 
 +
 +----
 +==== Johanna Gehlen ====
 +{{:working_groups:johanna_gehlen.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** Complex System Simulation, Earth Science, Scientific Computing\\  
 +**Contact:** [[johanna.gehlen@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanna-gehlen-a586591ba/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Johanna is a Junior Research Engineer in the Computational Earth Sciences group. She holds a Master's of Computational Science from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), specialising in complex system simulations. She joined the BSC in September 2024.
 +----
 +
 +==== Laura Herrero ====
 +
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** \\  
 +**Contact:** [[laura.herrero@bsc.es]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** 
 +
 +----
 +==== Leo Arriola ====
 +{{:working_groups:leo_arriola.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** Climate crisis and adaptation, Earth system models, HPC, Machine Learning, Data Science, Open Science, Open source\\  
 +**Contact:** [[leo.arriola@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/leo-arriola-meikle-53ab551a7/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Leo Arriola is a Junior Research Engineer in the performance and workflows team, he is also a Computer Scientist from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). He works on the European project Destination Earth. He joined the CES department in September 2022 to work in the model and workflows team. 
 +----
 +==== Luca Rizza ====
 +{{:working_groups:luca_rizza.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** Computer Vision, Laser Scanning & Surveying, Structures \\  
 +**Contact:** [[luca.rizza@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/luca-rizza-aero/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Luca Rizza holds a bachelor and a Master's in Aerospace Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). His research experience is in the development of a bond-based peridynamics model for fracture estimation.  He worked as an Machine Learning/Algorithm engineer for MJ Engineering and Land Surveying in New York, where he developed algorithms for LiDAR/GeoSpatial survey data, as well as Computer Vision and Machine Learning models and program optimization. He joined the BSC in March 2025 to work on atmospheric composition tools inside the CES group.   
 +----
 +==== Luiggi Tenorio ====
 +{{:working_groups:luiggitenorio.jpeg?nolink&120 |}}
 +**Position:** Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** Software Development, HPC, Big Data, Data Science, Best Practices\\  
 +**Contact:** [[luiggi.tenorio@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/ltenoriok/|LinkedIn]] \\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Luiggi is a Research Engineer on the Autosubmit Team. He holds a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering: High Performance and Big Data Computing from the University of Padua (Italy). Additionally, he has prior experience in full-stack software development and data engineering, gained through work in healthcare startups and later in a bioinformatics lab within the ELIXIR network. 
 +----
 +==== Manuel Giménez ====
 +{{:working_groups:manuel_gimenez.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** PhD Student\\  
 +**Interests:** Workflows, Provenance, Workflow Instrumentation\\  
 +**Contact:** [[manuel.gimenez@bsc.es]] [[manuel.gimenez.de.castro@upc.edu]]\\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Manuel holds a bachelor in Applied Mathematics by the University of São Paulo and a Master in Innovation and Research in Informatics by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. His interests revolve around workflow optimization, intrumentation, and provenance. He joined the CES team in July 2022 to develop his Master Thesis and has continued for a PhD.
 +----
 +==== Martí Ortís  ====
 +
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** Earth Sciences\\  
 +**Contact:** [[marti.ortis@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/mart%C3%AD-o-bb9833297/|LinkedIn]]\\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Martí has a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and a Master's degree in Renewable Energy and Sustainability from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). He joined the Earth Sciences group on April 2025 as a Junior Research Engineer.  
 +----
 +==== Miriam Olid  ====
 +{{:working_groups:miriamolidigarcia.jpg?120 |}}
 +
 +**Position:** Research Support Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** Atmospheric Pollution, Photochemical Models, Emissions Modelling\\  
 +**Contact:** [[miriam.olid@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/miriam-olid-garcia-464289103/|LinkedIn]]\\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Miriam Olid holds a bachelor in Environmental Science by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and Master in Meteorology by the Universitat of Barcelona (UB). She started to work as a research technician in the Deparment of Metorology of the UB. One of her main tasks was to participate in the development and maintenance of an air quality modelling system based on a meteorological model, an emission model and a photochemical model. This system, called ARAMIS, is currently working in operational. Besides, she participated in the development and implementation of the emission model included in HIREM from the methodology described by EMEP. From 2007 to 2017, she worked as a technician in the Department of Medi Ambient during the Ozone Campaigns (May-September). From 2017 she works at Barcelona Super Computing Centre as a research engineer in the Computational Earth Science group from Earth Sciences Department. She is responsible for supervising the operational runs of the MONARCH model and CALIOPE Air Quality System at BSC. Other of her tasks are interacting with computational earth science scientists to improve the performance and the reliability of the system. She has co-authored more than 10 publications. 
 +----
 +
 +==== Pablo Goitia  ====
 +{{:working_groups:pablogoitia.jpg?120 |}}
 +**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** High Performance Computing, Workflows, Performance \\  
 +**Contact:** [[pablo.goitia@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/pablogoitia/|LinkedIn]]\\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** Pablo Goitia holds a BSc in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Cantabria, Spain. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at the same university. He joined BSC in June 2023 and, since then, has completed an internship and his Bachelor's Thesis. He is currently a Workflow Management Research Engineer in the Models and Workflows team. Pablo joined BSC in June 2023.
 +----
 +==== Pradeep Jasal  ====
 +
 +**Position:** Research Engineer\\  
 +**Interests:** \\  
 +**Contact:** [[pradeep.jasal@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradeepjasal/|LinkedIn]]\\ 
 +
 +**Short Bio:** 
 +
 +----
  
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