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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Contact: theertha.kariyathan@bsc.es LinkedIn

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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.