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
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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.

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Position: Recognised Researcher (R2)
Interests: AI, Data Science, Climate, Aerosol Particles, Extreme Weather
Contact: alberto.sanchez@bsc.es LinkedIn
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Short Bio: Alberto has a degree in Physics from the University of Valencia. He also holds a PhD in Atmopsheric Science from the University of Leeds, where he investigated the role of aerosol particles in ice formation in clouds, from both an experimental and modelling perspective. He has worked as a data scientist in different projects related to health security and extreme weather events. Currently he is working with climate emulators in the Artificial Intelligence Team.

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Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: AI, LLMs
Contact: alicia.chimeno@bsc.es LinkedIn
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Short Bio: Alicia holds a degree in Mathematics from UAB and a master's degree in Data Science from UPC. She specializes in large language models and is passionate about applying AI to advance scientific research. She is part of the AI team, where her work focuses on fine-tuning and evaluating LLMs in the field of climate change

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

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

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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.

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Machine Learning, Data Science, Responsible AI
Contact: marina.castano@bsc.es LinkedIn

Short Bio: Marina (she/her) has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Salamanca and a master's degree in Data Science from New York University, obtained under a Fulbright scholarship. She has done research on applying natural language processing models for legal and political documents. Now, she is part of the AI Team, working on improving the representation of land surface parameters for weather and climate models.

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.