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Position: Research Engineer (Team Leader)
Interests: Software development, Data management, Big Data
Contact: francesco.benincasa@bsc.es LinkedIn
ORCID: 0000-0002-4713-3084
Joined BSC: 2010

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.

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Position: Research Engineer (Team Leader)
Interests: Software development, Data management, Big Data
Contact: pierre-antoine.bretonniere@bsc.es LinkedIn
ORCID: 0000-0002-3066-6685
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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

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Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Software Development, Web Development, Environmental Chemistry, Remote Sensing, Geospatial Data Management and Renewable Energies
Contact: alba.vilanova@bsc.es LinkedIn
ORCID: 0000-0001-8059-2285
Joined BSC: March 2022

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, University of Münster and Jaume I University. Before joining BSC, she did internships at Korea Institute of Energy Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems and Meteomatics AG. At BSC her work is focused on the implementation of new features in Providentia. She is also leading the development of the CALIOPE dashboard and supporting the development of the RESPIRE and EpiOutlook dashboards. In addition to this, she has previously worked on the I/O library NES.

Projects: Providentia, NES, CALIOPE, Climval, RESPIRE, EpiOutlook

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Earth Sciences, Linux, Windows, IT infrastructure, software stack
Contact: albert.vilamiro@bsc.es LinkedIn
ORCID: 0009-0008-3155-0642
Joined BSC: May 2019

Short Bio: Albert Vila Miró is an IT Expert in the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).He completed a vocational degree in Microcomputer Systems and Networks at La Salle Girona, building a strong foundation in computer systems, networking, and technical support. He began his career at La Salle Cassà de la Selva, where he carried out laptop and desktop maintenance, prepared and configured user workspaces, managed users on Windows Server environments, performed disk imaging and formatting, assembled computer hardware, and installed operating systems, software, and drivers. He later joined the Consell Comarcal del Gironès, contributing to the creation of multimedia products and overseeing the installation, configuration, and maintenance of IT equipment and peripherals. He provided technical assistance to end users, addressing issues related to hardware, software, services, and printers. Currently at the BSC, Albert supports the Earth Sciences research community by preparing and configuring new equipment, developing internal documentation and user manuals, installing operating systems and scientific software, performing disk cloning and formatting, and maintaining IT infrastructure and peripherals. He provides expert technical assistance to researchers and administrative personnel, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of their computing environments.

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Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Data Science, Statistics, HPC, Earth Sciences
Contact: ariadna.batalla@bsc.es LinkedIn
ORCID: 0000-0001-6360-4344
Joined BSC: March 2024

Short Bio: Ariadna is a Junior Research Engineer in the Data and Diagnostics Team, developing and maintaing R tools for climate data analysis within the R Unit. She holds a double Bachelors's degree in Statistics and Sociology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Previously, she interned as a Public Policy Management and Evaluation Technician at the Department of Health of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

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Position: Research Engineer - Web Unit Lead
Interests: Data Science and Visualization, Web Development, Climate Change Mitigation
Contact: elliott.rose@bsc.es LinkedIn
ORCID: 0009-0001-6256-1351
Joined BSC: 2022

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.

Projects: BDRC Interactive Dashboard, RESPIRE Interactive Dashboard, Climval AI Validation Application

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

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Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Climate modeling, ML and DL, EO systems, Remote Sensing
Contact: joan.vedri@bsc.es LinkedIn
ORCID: 0009-0008-5890-1051
Joined BSC: October 2025

Short Bio: Joan holds a degree in Physics and a Master's in Remote Sensing from the University of Valencia. During his time at the Thermal Remote Sensing Group (GTT) at the University of Valencia, he developed data processing pipelines in Python to estimate essential climate variables, such as surface air temperature, using remote sensing and reanalysis data. This work involved the application of machine learning, deep learning techniques and geospatial data processing.

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

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

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Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Data Management, Big Data, MLOps, Spatial Analytics, Workflow Automation
Contact: matias.rebolledo@bsc.es LinkedIn
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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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Position: Research Engineer
Interests: HPC, Data Science, Computer Vision, ML, Software development
Contact: paula.serrano@bsc.es LinkedIn
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Joined BSC: March 2024

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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Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Web Development, Data Visualization, Software Engineering, Geospatial Technologies
Contact: rebeca.nunes@bsc.es LinkedIn
ORCID: 0009-0009-8738-0985
Joined BSC: April 2025

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Rebeca Nunes is a research engineer of the Data & Diagnostics Team within the Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She holds an MSc in Geospatial Technologies from NOVA University of Lisbon, University of Münster, and Jaume I University (2023–2025), and has six years of experience in software engineering. Before joining BSC, she worked on embedded and desktop applications at organizations including Sidia Institute, CESAR Innovation Center, Realtime Robotics, and Kinemetrics. At BSC, she focuses on web development and data visualization for the EpiOutlook platform, supporting interactive analysis of climate and health data.

Projects: EpiOutlook

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Software Development, Big Data, Cloud Computing and Parallel Computing, Tennis
Contact: rodrigo.mendes@bsc.es LinkedIn
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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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Position: Research Engineer
Interests: FullStack Web Development, Data Management, UI/UX
Contact: santiago.ramirez@bsc.es LinkedIn
ORCID: 0009-0007-0914-2063
Joined BSC: October 2023

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).

Projects: Climateurope2

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Climate Data Analysis
Contact: saskia.loosveldt@bsc.es LinkedIn
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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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Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Systems and Servers Administration, Computer Science, Software Engineering, High Performance Computing, Biomechanics, Cybersecurity, Mountains, Climbing
Contact: stamen.miroslavov@bsc.es LinkedIn
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Joined BSC: March 2023

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.

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Position: Research Engineer (Python Developer)
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Contact: supriyo.ghosh@bsc.es LinkedIn
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Joined BSC: January 2023

Short Bio: Supriyo is working on developing diagnostics for the Destination earth project and is responsible for data processing in ESMValTool. 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: Research Engineer
Interests: R tools development for Climate Data Analysis
Contact: theertha.kariyathan@bsc.es LinkedIn
ORCID: 0000-0003-4969-8844
Joined BSC: August 2024

Short Bio: Theertha (she/her) has a masters degree in Physics from the Indian Institute for Science Education and Research, India. She has five year research experience on the terrestrial carbon cycle while working for the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany. Her technical expertise lies in using R for data analysis. Currrently, works with the Data Diagnostics team at BSC, developing and maintaing R tools for climate data analysis.

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Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Climate modeling and forecasting, statistical analysis, computational science
Contact: victoria.agudetse@bsc.es LinkedIn
ORCID: 0009-0004-2807-6645
Joined BSC: January 2022

Short Bio: Victòria Agudetse Roures is a Research Engineer and R-Tools Unit Lead in the Data and Diagonistics Team within the Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). They hold a Master's degree in Meteorology by the University of Barcelona, and have over 5 years of experience writing software applications for weather and climate data analysis. At BSC, they focus on the development of in-house R tools for Climate Services applications and the management of operational workflows.

Projects: Vitigeoss, CERISE, BigPrediData.