Postdoctoral Researcher
Position: Group Leader
Interests: HPC performance, Computer Architecture, Scientific Models, Computational Dynamic Fluids, Mathematical algorithms.
Contact: mario.acosta@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio: Mario Acosta is co-leader of the Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He obtained his PhD from University of Granada (Spain) in 2015, on High Performance Computing applied to Earth System Modeling. This expertise includes wide knowledge in numerical models (governing equations, numerical algorithms and computational implementation) and how to adapt them efficiently to actual and new High Performance Computing (HPC) resources. He is working in the HPC WP of ESiWACE2, ESCAPE2 and INMERSE and the leader of the HPC WP of IS-ENES3 as BSC PI. Moreover, he is also the PI of a research project with KNMI related to HPC of the model Harmonie-Arome. He is author of 8 peer-reviewed articles in international journals. He presented his work at 14 congresses and workshops, and reviewed some manuscripts for peer-review journals. He is or has been the supervisor of two PhD students and three master students and several degree students, who are developing theses in the HPC topic. Additionally, he is associate professor at Universitat Politecnic of Catalunya (UPC).

Computational Engineer & Software Analyst
Position: Group Leader
Interests: HPC performance, Scientific Models, Data management and visualization.
Contact: miguel.castrillo@bsc.es LinkedIn Twitter

Short Bio: Miguel Castrillo is co-leader of the Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He holds an MSc in Computer Science, an MSc in Artificial Intelligence, and a BA in Geography and History. With previous experience as an analyst and software developer for several private companies, he joined the CES group at the BSC in 2012. Miguel's work at BSC has focused on technical projects related to High Performance Computing (HPC), mainly on computational performance, scalability, and workflows for Earth science models. He has contributed to several international projects, including IS-ENES2, IS-ENES3, ESiWACE and ESiWACE2 H2020, and Copernicus CMEMS 87 HPC ORCA36 and IMMERSE H2020 as PI, as well as to the preparation and research support of several PRACE projects. He's currently involved in several award-winning initiatives where he leads different work packages, including Destination Earth Climate DT, EDITO Model Lab, EERIE, ESiWACE3, GLORIA and CDRESM.

Position: Administrative Support
Contact: yaquelin.samper@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio: Project management professional at the Computational Earth Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She joined BSC in 2025 to support departmental operations and facilitate research activities, focusing on coordination, documentation, and process optimization. Her background combines international cooperation, education management, and diplomacy across Europe and Latin America. Yaquelin holds a joint International Master’s degree in Global Markets and Local Creativities (GLOCAL) from the University of Glasgow and the University of Barcelona, and a Master of Arts in History from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Position: Team Leader
Interests: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Image Processing, Data Science, Open Science
Contact: amanda.duarte@bsc.es LinkedIn Personal Website

Short Bio: Amanda is the leader of the Artificial Intelligence Team. Her research aims at applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning models for Earth Sciences. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), a Master's in Computer Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande in Brazil, and a Bachelor's degree in Systems Analysis from the Instituto Federal Sul-rio-grandense. My past research projects span a wide variety of areas and involve multimodal data collection and annotation, sign language processing, speech-conditioned image generation, underwater robot localization and navigation and underwater image restoration. Besides research, she is a travel, photography, and art enthusiast.

Recognised Researcher
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Contact: alberto.sanchez@bsc.es LinkedIn

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Position: Junior Research Engineer
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Contact: alicia.chimeno@bsc.es LinkedIn

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Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Geosciences HPC, Workflow, FAIR and reproducibility
Contact: amirpasha.mozaffari@bsc.es LinkedIn Twitter Personal Website

Short Bio:. Amirpasha is a research engineer in the Earth Sciences group and an Artificial Intelligence team member. He holds a PhD. in Computational Geophysics from RWTH Aachen University. Before joining the BSC, Amirpasha worked in the Earth System Data Exploration group at Juelich Supercomputing Centre (JSC). He joined BSC in May 2023.

Position: Research Machine Learning Engineer
Interests: Machine Learning, AI, NLP
Contact: andres.gonzalez@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio:Andrés González joined the Computational Earth Sciences Group of the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in April 2024 as a Research ML Engineer. He holds an Erasmus M.Sc. in Natural Language Processing and Language Technology from University of Malta and University of Lorraine from which he graduated in Fall of 2023. Prior to joining the BSC, Andrés worked at Orange Innovation Labs as an R&D NLP Engineer where he focused on tasked-oriented dialogue systems. Besides his interests in NLP and AI, he loves working out, traveling, reading, dancing and music.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Machine Learning, Earth Sciences, Data Science
Contact: david.mathas@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio: David Mathas holds a Masters degree in Econometrics and Data Science and worked with emission data during his thesis-internship at the Dutch Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). Currently he works on machine learning in the context of the BSC RESPIRE project.

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Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Machine Learning, AI, NLP
Contact: mayssa.kchaou@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio: Mayssa Kchaou joined the Computational Earth Sciences Group of the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) on September 2023 as a Junior Research ML Engineer. She holds a Software Engineering Degree from the University of Arts and Multimedia, Tunisia. Before starting at BSC and during her education, she worked as an Undergraduate Natural Language Processing Engineer and published research scientific papers.

Software Engineer
Position: Team Leader
Interests: Software development, Data management, Big Data
Contact: francesco.benincasa@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio: Francesco Benincasa holds a Master Degree in Software Engineering from the Alma Mater Studiorum - Bologna University (Italy) in 2004. After working in the private sector on web and databases development and automatic shop applications, he started his experience in supercomputing and data manipulation (SCS, CINECA spin-off - Bologna - Italy) oriented to biomedical simulations, participating to several FP6 and FP7 European projects. Since 2010 he is at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) working on air quality data management, processing and visualization. He is in charge of data processing and management and web development and maintenance of the WMO SDS-WAS NA-ME-E Regional Center (SDS) and the Barcelona Dust Forecast Center (BDFC), both projects operated by a consortium of BSC and AEMET (Spanish Meteorological Agency) under the umbrella of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) with the goals to improve the understanding of sand and dust storms phenomena through air quality models comparison and evaluation (SDS) and to provide an operational daily dust forecast over the mediterranean area (BDFC). He co-leads the Data and Diagnostics Team inside CES group.

Software Engineer
Position: Team Leader
Interests: Software development, Data management, Big Data
Contact: pierre-antoine.bretonniere@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio: Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière holds a Master Degree in Mathematical and Physical Engineering (Matmeca engineering school, Bordeaux, France, 2009). He has worked in CERFACS (Toulouse, France), Institut Català de Ciencies del Clima (IC3, Barcelona, Spain) and BSC, in data management and climate software anagement. His has worked on different climate data, diagnostics and metadata topics in numerous European and national projects (PRIMAVERA, SPECS, Copernicus, Destination Earth,…). Technically he is in charge in the department of the archive, ESGF, and data management. He also co-coordinates the Data and Diagnostics Team inside CES group. Interests: Data management, Big Data

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Software and Web Development, Environmental Chemistry, Remote Sensing, Geospatial Data Management and Renewable Energies
Contact: alba.vilanova@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio: Alba Vilanova Cortezón holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, earned at University of Lleida and Inha University, and obtained the Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies from NOVA University of Lisbon, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and Jaume I University. Before joining the Computational Earth Sciences department in March 2022, she did an internship at Korea Institute of Energy Research and assessed the energy potential of the photovoltaic power plants located in South Korea using satellite-derived irradiance data. Following this and before starting her master’s degree, she worked as a software developer at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems and contributed to the Open Energy Modelling Framework, a collection of Python libraries for the modelling of energy systems. In 2021 she participated in ECMWF Summer of Weather Code, an innovation programme run by ECMWF and Copernicus with the aim to drive innovation and open-source developments in the earth science community. Within this framework, she developed the Atmospheric Datasets Comparison Toolbox to facilitate the comparison of satellite- and model-based data on atmospheric composition, such as data from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), from TROPOMI and from the GOME-2 and IASI instruments onboard the polar-orbiting Metop-ABC satellites, providing a set of functions regarding the file interoperability, binning and regridding, computation of levels pressure, units conversion, application of the averaging kernels, datasets merge, geostatistical comparison and trend analysis. Currently, her work at Barcelona Supercomputing Center is focused on the implementation of new features in Providentia, a Python-based software used to evaluate air quality models given data from different observation networks. She is also leading the development of the dashboard that shows the air quality forecast in Spain using the CALIOPE system. In addition to this, she has previously worked on an I/O library called NES (NetCDF for Earth Science), used to read, write and manipulate atmospheric models in different geographical projections for the operational workflows.

Position: IT Technician
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Contact: albert.vilamiro@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio: Albert Vila Miró is the IT Technician of Earth Sciences Department at Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He study a formative cycle of Microcomputer Systems and Networks in La Salle Girona. He was in practice in La Salle Cassà de la Selva, making maintenance of laptops, PC’s, creation of working areas for users, creation and management users with Windows Server, clone and format disks, computer assembly, installation of operating systems, software and drivers… When finishes the practice, he works in “Consell Comarcal del Gironès” with creation of multimedia products, assembly, installation, management and maintenance of equipment and peripherals of the Consell Comarcal del Gironès. Software installation and drivers. Help all users of Consell Comarcal del Gironès with any problem related with computer equipment, programs, services, printers… Now, he works in BSC to support all users in Earth Sciences Department with creation of manuals, clone and format disks, installation of operating systems, management and maintenance of equipment and peripherals, software installation and drivers, preparation of new equipment, help all users with any problem related with computer equipment, programs, peripherals, etc.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Data Science, Statistics, HPC, Earth Sciences
Contact: ariadna.batalla@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio: Ariadna is a Junior Research Engineer in the Data and Diagnostics Team. She holds a double Bachelors's degree in Statistics and Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has experience in research and health data analysis. She joined the Computational Earth Sciences Group in March 2024.

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Data Science and Visualization, Web Development, Climate Change Mitigation
Contact: elliott.rose@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio: Elliott holds a BA in Philosophy from San Francisco State University and a MSc in Applied Computer Science from Frostburg State University. He has experience in data science, software engineering, databases, and web development. In 2022, Elliott joined the Data and Diagnostics team within the Computational Earth Sciences group at the BSC.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Earth Science, Data Analysis
Contact: iker.gonzalez@bsc.es

Short Bio: Iker Gonzalez Yeregui has a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) in Bilbao and a Master's degree in Astrophysics, Cosmology and High Energy Physics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He is currently working on the Destination Earth project.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Software development, Computational Chemistry, 3D Modelling, Quantum mechanics, Logics
Contact: lorena.gallardo@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio: Lorena is a Visualization Developer in the Data and Diagnostics team of the Computational Earth Sciences group. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry (UB), a Master’s degree in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling (UB and UAM), and is currently studying for a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy (UB). She completed various internships with diverse groups at the University of Barcelona and at the ALBA Synchrotron. During her master's, she contributed to the Crystallographic Methods Group of IBMB – CSIC by developing software for the validation of ligands in Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Earth Science, Data Analysis
Contact: marvin.axness@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio: Marvin Axness has a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Valencia and an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Degree in Nuclear Physics from the Universities of Sevilla (Spain), Catania (Italy), Caen (France) and Padova (Italy). He is currently working in the Destination Earth project, integrating the MultiIO library into climate models to generate model outputs.

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Data Management, Big Data, MLOps, Spatial Analytics, Workflow Automation
Contact: matias.rebolledo@bsc.es LinkedIn

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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: HPC, Data Science, Computer Vision, ML, Software development
Contact: paula.serrano@bsc.es LinkedIn

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.

Position: Researcher Engineer
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Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Software Engineering, Web Development, Data Visualization
Contact: rebeca.nunes@bsc.es LinkedIn

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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Software Development, Big Data, Cloud Computing and Parallel Computing, Tennis
Contact: rodrigo.mendes@bsc.es LinkedIn

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.

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: FullStack Web Development, Data Management, UI/UX
Contact: santiago.ramirez@bsc.es 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).

Position: Junior Research Engineer
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Contact: saskia.loosveldt@bsc.es LinkedIn

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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer (Junior IT Specialist)
Interests: Systems and Servers Administration, Computer Science, Software Engineering, High Performance Computing, Biomechanics, Cybersecurity, Mountains, Climbing
Contact: stamen.miroslavov@bsc.es LinkedIn

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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer (Python Developer)
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Contact: supriyo.ghosh@bsc.es LinkedIn

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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Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Climate modeling and forecasting, statistical analysis, computational science
Contact: victoria.agudetse@bsc.es 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.

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 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.

Position: R2 Recognised Researcher
Interests: Climate Modeling and Forecasting, Statistical Analysis, Computational Science
Contact: aitor.sanchez@bsc.es 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.

Position: Senior Research Engineer
Interests: Parallel Programming, CUDA, MPI, HPC, Generative Programming, Software Design
Contact: alexey.medvedev@bsc.es 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.

Position: Senior Research Engineer
Interests: HW/SW co-design, High-Performance Computing, Hardware Accelerators
Contact: andrew.forembski@bsc.es 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.

Position: RE2 Recognised Researcher
Interests: Parallel Programming, Heterogeneous Computing, CUDA/HIP, HPC, Numerical Algorithms, Quantum Mechanics
Contact: antoni.portero@bsc.es 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.

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Plasma Physics, Numerical Methods, Art
Contact: carlos.penadepedro@bsc.es 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).

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: High Performance Computers, Parallel Computing
Contact: carlos.romero@bsc.es 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.

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: HPC performance, Scientific Models, Computer Architecture
Contact: christian.guzman@bsc.es 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
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Contact: iria.ayan@bsc.es LinkedIn

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.

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Interests: Numerical Climate Predictio
Contact: kai.keller@bsc.es 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Computational Physics, Computational Modelling, Earth Sciences
Contact: maitane.farinas@bsc.es 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Computer Languages, Computational Modeling, Optimization, HPC, ML, Computer Networks, Logic Synthesis (FPGA)
Contact: marcel.cases@bsc.es LinkedIn 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Computational Physics, HPC, Earth Sciences
Contact: marta.alerany@bsc.es 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).

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Numerical Methods, HPC, Parallel Programming, CFD
Contact: nicholas.abel@bsc.es 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.

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Complexity Theory, HPC
Contact: okke.vaneck@bsc.es 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.

Position: Recognised Researcher
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Contact: oriol.tinto@bsc.es LinkedIn

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Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Software Development, System Design, Massive Information Search and Analysis
Contact: pablo.aparici@bsc.es 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: HPC, Computational complexity
Contact: roc.salvador@bsc.es 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.

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: GPU computing, HPC
Contact: rommel.quintanilla@bsc.es 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.

Position: Research Engineer
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Contact: sergi.palomas@bsc.es 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.

Position: HPC Scientific Software Engineer
Interests: High Performance Computing, Parallel Programming, Numerical Modeling
Contact: simone.vacondio@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio: Simone (he/him) got his PhD in Physics and Nanosciences from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. He did research on electronic structure theories beyond the state of the art, validating their applicability by writing parallel implementations. Likewise, he contributed to the understanding of experimental findings by running electronic structure simulations on HPC platforms. He joined the Performance Team in June 2025 as a HPC Scientific Software Engineer to contribute to the improvement of EC-Earth.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: High Performance Computing, Parallel Computing, Software Developing
Contact: victor.correal@bsc.es 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.

Position: Team Leader
Interests: Workflows, Earth system models, High Performance Computing
Contact: francesca.macchia@bsc.es 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.

Position: Team Leader
Interests: Meteorology, Numerical Weather Prediction, Earth System Models, Software Development
Contact: gilbert.montane@bsc.es 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Computational Physics, HPC
Contact: aina.gayayavila@bsc.es 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Computational Physics, Quantum Technologies, Machine Learning
Contact: alba.martinez@bsc.es 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Earth Sciences, Computational Sciences
Contact: alejandro.garcia@bsc.es 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Software Development, Computational Physics, Earth Sciences
Contact: artur.vinas@bsc.es 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.

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Artificial Intelligence, HPC, Automation, Teaching
Contact: breixo.solino@bsc.es 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.

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 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.

Position: Computer Engineer specialized in Computer Architecture and HPC
Interests: CALIOPE, WRF, HERMESv2, HERMESv3_GR, HERMESv3_BU, CMAQ, Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
Contact: carles.tena@bsc.es 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.

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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Meteorology, HPC, Air Quality Forecast
Contact: celia.ferruz@bsc.es 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Workflow Managment, Software Development, Robots, Cycling, Hiking, Snowboarding
Contact: damien.mcclain@bsc.es 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.

Position: Workflow Management Software Engineer
Interests: High Performance Computing, computer architecture , Workflows
Contact: daniel.beltran@bsc.es LinkedIn

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Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Computer Sciences, Artificial Inteligence, Big Data
Contact: eric.ferrer@bsc.es 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.

Position: RE1 Workflow Management Software Engineer
Interests: HPC, Workflow Managment, Software Developing
Contact: erick.doria@bsc.es 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Physicist, Atmospheric scientist and a bit of a glaciologist with interest in coding
Contact: francesc.roura@bsc.es 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.

Position: R2 Recognized Researcher
Interests: Computational Physics, Atmosphere Models, Performance Optimization
Contact: hannah.ross@bsc.es 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
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Contact: ivan.alsina@bsc.es LinkedIn

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Position: Undergraduate Student
Interests: Parallel Programming, HPC, Performance Optimitzation
Contact: joan.bernat@bsc.es joan.bernat@autonoma.cat 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Complex System Simulation, Earth Science, Scientific Computing
Contact: johanna.gehlen@bsc.es 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
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Contact: laura.herrero@bsc.es

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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 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Computer Vision, Laser Scanning & Surveying, Structures
Contact: luca.rizza@bsc.es 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.

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Software Development, HPC, Big Data, Data Science, Best Practices
Contact: luiggi.tenorio@bsc.es 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.

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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Earth Sciences
Contact: marti.ortis@bsc.es 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.

Position: Research Support Engineer
Interests: Atmospheric Pollution, Photochemical Models, Emissions Modelling
Contact: miriam.olid@bsc.es 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.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: High Performance Computing, Workflows, Performance
Contact: pablo.goitia@bsc.es 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.

Position: HPC Software Engineer
Interests: Container Technologies, High Performance Computing, System Programming, CI/CD, Go Programming Language
Contact: pradeep.jasal@bsc.es LinkedIn

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