The Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group is a multidisciplinary team with different IT profiles that interacts closely with all the other groups of the Earth Sciences Department. The group provides help and guidance to the scientists with the technical issues relating to their work and develops a framework for the most efficient use of HPC resources. In order to improve the use of the variety of computing resources available at the BSC and in other HPC institutions, a solid software development, profiling and optimisation area has been created for Earth system model codes towards exascale computing, and to provide feedback on this to modellers around Europe. Last but not least, the development of a framework to disseminate the outputs generated by the BSC-ES among the research and service community has been established. This area takes advantage of the unique environment of the BSC where research in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence is already a priority that will be extended in the next few years.

One of the common scopes of the group is the guidance on the use of IT resources, with the aim of Designing and maintaining an IT infrastructure allowing the research teams the accomplishment of their objectives. This involves:

• Maintain an IT infrastructure that ensures an efficient working environment for the development of the BSC-ES research and services, including the provision of sufficient storage to reduce this specific vulnerability of the department.
• Provide and guide the department groups to use a collaborative framework and good coding practices (code version control, testing suites, style guides) to improve the work efficiency, the integration of newcomers and the sharing of the tools.
• Develop and ensure a continuous training to IT members and earth sciences users to use resources in the most efficient way.

The group is led by Kim Serradell and is organised in 3 teams (“Models and Workflows”, “Performance” and “Data and Diagnostics”) as shown below.

In this section, one can find, similarly to the “Starting at ES” page some guidelines when starting working in CES

Group slides - Weekly Reports - CES Meetings slides

Current members: Miguel Castrillo (team leader), Francesca Macchia (team leader), Mario Acosta, Miriam Olid, Carles Tena, Julian Rodrigo Berlín, Marcus Falls, Gilbert Montané, Daniel Beltrán, Wilmer Uruchi, Eric Ferrer, Ragi Ambika, Manuel Giménez de Castro, Cristian Gutiérrez, Genis Bonet, Francesc Roura Adserias, Aina Gaya Àvila.

Purpose: Development of HPC user-friendly software framework for Earth system modelling and the management of operational systems

Tasks:

• Support the development of atmospheric research software and contribute to its maintenance
  • Interact with model developers and HPC support teams to develop and deploy a software stack to run generic Earth system models on a wide range of HPC facilities.
• Maintain and improve operational systems
  • Collaborate with the other three groups to satisfy their needs for the development and efficient running, including the design of appropriate workflows, of the BSC-ES operational air quality, weather and climate forecast systems.

Projects and softwares developed:

Current members: Mario Acosta (team leader), Miguel Castrillo, Sergi Palomas, Stella Paronuzzi, Xavier Yepes, Christian Guzman, Iria Ayan, Manuel Giménez de Castro, Carlos Peña, Oscar Michel.

Purpose: Efficient use of the computational resources by the research groups

Tasks:

• Provide HPC Services such as performance analysis to identify bottlenecks and apply optimizations
  • Collaborate with other BSC departments, especially Computer Sciences, to use state-of-the-art programming models and profiling tools to prepare Earth sciences models to run on next generation exascale HPC system. Also improve the efficiency of existing models and postprocessing tools interacting with developers and users during all stages of software development lifecycle.

• Research on new computational methods to apply on Earth Sciences models
  • Collaborate with external Earth system modelling teams to implement and test new computational methods that allow the use of new platforms such as heterogeneous architectures.

Projects and softwares developed:

• ELPin
• Lucia-lite

Current members: Francesco Benincasa, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière (team leaders), An-Chi Ho, Saskia Loosveldt Tomas, Lluís Palma García, Núria Pérez-Zanón, Margarida Samsó, Javier Vegas, Amalia Vradi, Daniel Trujillo, Carlos Gomez, Giulia Carella, Elliott Rose, Amanda Duarte, Marvin Axness, Etienne Jodry, Supriyo Ghosh, Stamen Miroslavov.

Purpose: Provision of data services

Tasks:

• Develop, manage and maintain a common data service framework
  • Develop, manage and maintain a common data service framework to collect, standardize and distribute climate and atmospheric data to both internal departmental and external users of the research and services community. Setting up an ESGF Data-Node is a priority of the team to give international visibility to the centre.
  • Implement locally and contribute to the development of international standards for data storage and exchange, with special interest in data in NetCDF and GRIB formats.
  • Contribute to external data quality checking projects (eg Copernicus C3S_512)

• Deploy an infrastructure ready to overcome the Big Data challenge in Earth sciences
  • Improve the capability for processing Big Data volumes for the analysis of Earth system simulation using the latest technologies both at hardware and software levels.
  • Improve the outcome to society of user-friendly data visualization products.
  • Study new approaches to address the I/O challenges of the new generation of high-resolution, highly parallelized Earth system models.
  • In this page, you can find the current material related to Big Data in Earth Sciences.

• Artificial Intelligence for Earth Sciences
  • New developments on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence have great potential for the exploitation and modelling of the ever-increasing stream of geospatial data. Therefore, a new research line has been started within CES to develop new Machine Learning models (specially based on Deep Neural Networks) for Earth Sciences. All the information can be found here (AI4ES).

Projects and softwares developed:

• C3PO
• Earth Diagnostics
• ece2cmor
• R2D2
• SDS-WAS/BDFC Map Viewer and Other customizations
• MapGenerator
• ESGF Node: info and esgf-ceda portal
• THREDDS info and THREDDS direct link
• s2dverification
• C3S_512

• Department Git projects
• CES knowledge duplication

Every month the CES group meets and each group presents the activities carried on (updated in the Trello of the group), the issues encountered and progresses made. The following document contains the presentations of CES team meetings. In the CES group, we are not only computer guys and girls, we are also cooks! Take a look!

Useful CES references to add in ES publications.

• Supercomputing 2015, Austin, Texas, 15 - 20 November 2015, Optimization of an Ocean Model Using Performance Tools Poster - Two-page extended abstract
• EGU General Assembly 2017 (EGU2017), Vienna, Austria, 24-28 April 2017, Simulation-based performance analysis of EC-Earth 3.2.0 using Dimemas pdf
• OpenIFS workshop 2017, Trieste, Italy, 5-9 June 2017, Performance study of OpenIFS: towards a more efficiently scalable model pdf

• Tintó Prims, O., M. Castrillo, K. Serradell , O. Mula-Valls and F.J. Doblas-Reyes (2015). Optimization of an ocean model using performance tools.BSC-CES Technical Memorandum No. 2, 16 pp.
• Basart, S., K. Serradell and J.M. Baldasano (2015). User's guide of the BSC-DREAM8b modelBSC-AC Technical Memorandum No. 1, 74 pp.
• Yepes-Arbós, X., M. C. Acosta, K. Serradell, A. Sanchez Lorente, F.J. Doblas-Reyes (2017). Simulation-based performance analysis of EC-Earth 3.2.0 using Dimemas. BSC-CES Technical Memorandum 2017-001, 30 pp.
• Acosta, M.C., X. Yepes-Arbós, S. Valcke, E. Maisonnave, K. Serradell, O. Mula-Valls and F.J. Doblas-Reyes (2016). Performance analysis of EC-Earth 3.2: Coupling BSC-CES Technical Memorandum 2016-006, 38 pp.
• Yepes-Arbós, X., M.C. Acosta, K. Serradell, O. Mula-Valls, F.J. Doblas-Reyes (2016). Scalability and performance analysis of EC-Earth 3.2.0 using a new metric approach (Part I) BSC-CES Technical Memorandum 2016-001, 28 pp.
• Yepes-Arbós, X., M.C. Acosta, K. Serradell, O. Mula-Valls, F.J. Doblas-Reyes (2016). Scalability and performance analysis of EC-Earth 3.2.0 using a new metric approach (Part II) BSC-CES Technical Memorandum 2016-004, 56 pp.

1. Computational Earth Sciences generic presentation (February 2020) pptx

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

Mario Acosta is a postdoctoral researcher and the leader of the Performance Team in the Computational group at the BSC (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) Earth Science Department. 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).

Software Engineer
Interests: Software development, Data management, Big Data

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 also co-coordinates the Data and Diagnostics Team inside CES group.

Software Engineer

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

Postdoctoral Researcher, STARS/MSCA-COFUND fellow
Interests: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer vision and image processing, Data Science, Statistics, Open Science, Python scientific development
Contact: carlos.gomez@bsc.es Linkedin GitHub

Computational Engineer, Software Analyst

Interests: HPC performance, Scientific Models, Data management and visualization

Contact: miguel.castrillo@bsc.es, Twitter, Linkedin

Short Bio: Miguel Castrillo (male) is a research support engineer co-leading the Models and Workflows Team in the Computational Earth Sciences group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science, a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography and History. With over 15 years of experience, Miguel has worked for various private sector companies as an analyst and software developer before joining the Barcelona Supercomputing Center's Computational Earth Sciences group in 2012.

Miguel's work at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center has focused on technical projects related to high-performance computing (HPC) performance and workflows for Earth Science models. He has contributed to multiple projects, including IS-ENES2, IS-ENES3, ESiWACE, and ESiWACE2 H2020, and Copernicus CMEMS 87 HPC ORCA36 and IMMERSE H2020 as PI, as well as the preparation and research support of several PRACE projects.

Currently, he's involved in several awarded initiatives where he leads different work packages, including Climate DT, EDITO Model Lab, EERIE, ESiWACE3, GLORIA, and CDRESM.

Miguel is a member of different international working groups, such as the NEMO System Team, EC-Earth Technical Working Group, EC-Earth 4 Working Group, and the Mercator Ocean International Scientific Board. He has also chaired the Earth scientific panel for the Call for Advanced Computing Projects of the RNCA in 2021 and 2022.

Research Engineer - Linkedin
Interests: Computer Science, Software Engineering ,High Performance Computing , Geosciences
Contact: julian.berlin@bsc.es




Short bio: Julian is a Research software engineer in the Computational Earth Sciences group: He holds a MSc in Computer Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. Julian has 20 years of working experience as a software engineer and related disciplines, his expertise varies from Software architecture and design to OOP development and programming under several technologies and development environments, he has worked for companies and international organizations in Argentina, the United States and the Netherlands before joining BSC in Barcelona, such as the Inter-American Development bank (IADB) and the Technical University of Delft (TU-Delft) where he participated in research projects funded by the European Commission through Marie Curie and Copernicus initiatives (CHANGES project). his interests vary from Software engineering topics such as Software Architecture and UI/UX to HPC platforms and Earth Sciences. He is currently assigned to the Models and Workflows team, involved in several European HPC projects and in charge of the release management f the Autosubmit GUI/API tools.

Research Engineer
Interests: Meteorology, Numerical Weather Prediction, Earth system models, Software development
Contact: gilbert.montane@bsc.es Linkedin

Gilbert 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.

Research Support Engineer
Interests: Atmospheric Pollution, Photochemical models, Emissions modelling

Short bio: 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.

Computational Earth Sciences group leader - Linkedin

Interests: Earth system models, performance analysis and team management.

Short bio: Msc. Kim Serradell Maronda is currently managing the Computational Earth Sciences group in the Earth Sciences department at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). In the last years, he has been in charge for the system administration of all the computational resources of the department and he was also responsible for supervising the operational runs of the NMMB/BSC-CTM model and CALIOPE Air Quality System at BSC. In that sense, he was also involved in the analysis of the models to improve their performance and developed strong skills of compilation and scripting. Furthermore, he's focused in deploying different earth system models (dust transport, climate or weather forecast) required by the department in a wide range of HPC architectures. Work Package leader within ESiWACE and ESiWACE2 (H2020 Weather and Climate Center of Excellence), IS-ENES3 (H2020) and ESCAPE-2 (FET H2020) and he is also involved in EC-FP7 and H2020 projects: IS-ENES2, Montblanc, IMMERSE and QA4Seas.

Computer Engineer specialized in Computer Architecture and HPC - LinkedIn - ORCID
Position: Developer
Interests: CALIOPE, WRF, HERMESv2, HERMESv3_GR, HERMESv3_BU, CMAQ, Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
Contact: carles.tena@bsc.es
Short bio: Bachelor on computer science by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and finalizing the master on computational mathematics by Rovira i Virgili University (URV). His main experience is in the development of models and workflows for the daily (emissions, meteorological and air quality) forecast mainly developed in the objected oriented programming language Python. He coordinates the technical development of the emission model HERMESv3. He has technically coordinated the air quality forecast for the Mexico City, he has maintained the CALIOPE system and supervised the daily forecast related with air quality for the Spanish ministry. He is part of the Computational Earth Science group of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) that has into him tasks to provide help and orientation to the scientists with technical problems related with their job and to develop an optimized framework to use more efficiently the high performance computation resources. His work has produced tree papers on scientist’s publications and the supervision of one master student final thesis.

Computer engineer specialized in computer architecture and HPC - LinkedIn

Position: Research engineer

Interests: Earth Sciences Modelling, computer architecture and High Performance Computing

Short bio: Xavier Yepes-Arbós 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: Junior Research Engineer

Contact: iria.ayan@bsc.es

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

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…

Position: Research Student
Interests: HPC performance, Scientific Models, Computer Architecture
Contact:christian.guzman@bsc.es
Short bio: PhD Student in Computer Science for High Performance Computing at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), in a collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Working on the development of 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
Interests: Climate modelling and forecasting, Earth observation, Renewable energies and Computational sciences.
Contact: lluis.palma@bsc.es - LinkedIn

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Workflows, Earth system models, High Performance Computing
Contact: francesca.macchia@bsc.es
Short Bio: 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: Junior Data Manager
Interests: Data management, Big Data
Contact: margarida.samso_cabre@bsc.es - Linkedin
Short Bio: Margarida is a Research software engineer in the Data and Diagnostics team from the Computational Earth Sciences group. She has a Bachelor's degree in Telecomuncations Engineering (Universitat Ramon Llull), a Master in Project Management (Universitat Ramon Llull) and now is studying a Master in Bioinformatics and Bio-statistics (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). She worked as a government consultant at La Generalitat and l'Ajuntament de Barcelona, as a project management assistant at Caixa Capital Risk and as an IT Technician at ESADE.

Position: Junior research engineer
Interests: High Performance Computing, computer architecture , Workflows
Contact: daniel.beltran@bsc.es

Position: Junior research engineer
Contact: saskia.loosveldt@bsc.es
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: Research Engineer
Interests: Earth Sciences, Computer Sciences, HPC
Contact: stella.paronuzzi@bsc.es - Linkedin

Short Bio: Stella has a master degree in Physics from the Università degli studi di Milano and an MSc in High Performance Computing got at the International Center for Theoretical Physics . She worked at the INGV (Pisa) as HCP expert, optimizing a code dealing with volcanic hashes. Later moved to the field of oceanography, working in the parallel implementation of a P-adaptive discontinuous finite element methods applied to geophysical flows. Since 2018 she is part of the Computational Earth Science department in BSC, with main focus on the optimization of the NEMO code(Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean).

Position: Research Engineer
Contact: an.ho@bsc.es
Short Bio: An-Chi is a Research Engineer in the Computational Earth Sciences Group. She has a Master's degree in Atmospheric Sciences (National Taiwan University), a Master's degree in Climate and Society (Columbia University), and a BSc in Atmospheric Sciences (National Taiwan University). In BSC, she is in charge of the development and maintenance of the in-house R tools.

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

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: Junior Workflow Development Engineer
Interests: Computational Sciences, Artificial Inteligence, Study and Simulation of Physical Systems, Robotics, Rendering
Contact: genis.bonet@bsc.es

Short bio: Genis Bonet is a Computer Science & Engineering graduate from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He has previosuly worked in full stack web development and specialized in computing during his degree. Genis joined CES' Models and workflows team in november 2022.

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

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.

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


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'll work on the European project Destination Earth. He joined the CES department in September 2022 to work in the model and workflows team.

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

Alba Vilanova Cortezón holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, earned at University of Lleida and Inha University, and obtained the Master's degree 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. In addition to this, she is working on the development of an I/O library called NES (NetCDF for Earth Science) to read, write and manipulate atmospheric models in different geographical projections for the operational workflows.

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

Short bio: Alejandro García López 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: Physical modelling, Computational Physics, Statistical analysis
Contact: eva.rifarovira@bsc.es

Short bio: Eva Rifà Rovira has a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona and a Master's degree in Engineering Physics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She did her final Master's Thesis with the UPC-BIOCOMSC research group on the Study of the evolution of new variants during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Front-end web development, ReactJS, web stuff
Contact: cristian.gutierrez@bsc.es

Short bio: Cristian Gutiérrez Gómez is a last year student of Computer Science at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Before joining the the CES department, he worked at the smart cities industry. I'll be working on the Autosubmit app, but more on the ReactJS side.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: High performance computers, parallel computing
Contact: carlos.penadepedro@bsc.es

Short bio: Carlos Peña de Pedro 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: 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: Technical Coordinator
Interests: Computer Sciences, Artificial Inteligence, Big Data
Contact: ginka.vanthielengeb@bsc.es

Short bio: Ginka Van Thielen holds a degree in Computer Schience earned at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences. She has worked as a software and test developer, and also as a configuration, change and release manager in the healthcare industry. She joined the Computational Earth Sciences department in September 2022 to work as a Technical Coordinator on the Destination Earth project.

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

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: 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

Short bio: Bruno 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: Postdoctoral Researcher
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 currently part of the Computational Earth Sciences Group / Data and Diagnostics Team collaborating with the Climate Variability and Change Group. 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.

Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Data Science and Visualization, Web Development, Climate Change Mitigation

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: Computational physics, Climate science
Contact: oscar.michel@bsc.es

Short bio: Oscar Michel is a junior research engineer in the Performance Team from the Computational Earth Sciences Group. He holds a Master's degree in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, and Cosmology from the University of Barcelona (UB). He joined the Earth Sciences Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) in October 2022.

Position: Undergraduate student - HPC
Interests: High Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Data Science
Contact: oriol.duran@bsc.es

Short bio: Oriol Duran is an Undergraduate student in the Performance Team from the Computational Earth Sciences Group. He is currently elaborating his Bachelor's Thesis for the degree in Informatics Engineering at the Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (FIB-UPC). He joined the Earth Sciences group in the BSC in October 2022.

Position: Research Engineer
Interests: Software Engineering, NLP, Data Management
Contact: liam.brodie@bsc.es

Short bio: Liam Brodie is a Research Engineer working in the Data and Diagnostics Team. He holds a BSc in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow. Liam holds experience in Natural Language Processing, Data Science, Android Application Development, and Web Development.

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

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: Compilers(C & Fortran),HPC Models, Optimizing Codes, Software Development
Contact: vijendra.singh@bsc.es

Short bio: Vijendra Singh has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Maharishi Dayanand University (MDU) , Rohtak India. He has experience of working in compiler codes, Banking software for HSM machines and optimization of weather models. He is currently working in computational earth science department for Performance team. Profiling and optimization of existing and new models is his prime job. He joined BSC in January 2023.

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Interests: Machine Learning, Data Science, Image Analysis and Computer Vision, Open Source, Critical Thinking, Humanities
Contact: etienne.jodry@bsc.es

Short bio: Etienne Jodry has studied at Université Savoie Mont-Blanc (France), York University (Canada), Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Sweden) and concluded by an Engineering Degree (eq. MSc) in Computer Science and Applied Math from l'École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble. The latter was conducted in apprenticeship, working part time in the industry for a Research & Development department applying Machine Learning techiques for Cybersecurity then Computer Vision. After a Sabbatical he joined BSC in January 2023.

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

Physicist, Atmospheric scientist and a bit of a glaciologist with interest in coding.

Keywords: Climate services, NWP, S2S, Open Source, meteorology, mountain meteorology, cryosphere.

Contact: francesc.roura@bsc.es, Twitter, Linkedin

Short Bio: Francesc Roura Adserias (him), physicist in the Computational Earth Sciences group, Models and Workflows team. Francesc is about to finish 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: Junior Researcher engineer
Interests: High Performance Computing, Parallel computing, Software developing
Contact: victor.correal@bsc.es

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: 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)
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).

Position: Workflows Engineer (RE-2)
Interests: High Performance Computing, Data Science & AI, Embedded Systems & IoT, Wireless Communication, Computer Networks
Contact: rohan.ahmed@bsc.es, LinkedIn


Short bio: Rohan holds a masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Pakistan. With over 3 years of Academic experience teaching at a university in Pakistan at the Electrical Engineering department. More than 4 years of experience in IoT and Embedded System freelance projects. Moreover, more than 1 year of experience working in the HPC domain and Embedded System Software optimization and debugging (Linux Kernel). Rohan is currently a member of the Models & Workflows Team (MWT) in the Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group in the Earth Sciences department of BSC. His main duties involves managing workflows in the DestinE project.

Rohan joined BSC in April 2023.

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


Short bio:. Amirpasha is a research engineer in the Earth Sciences group and a Models and Workflow 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).

Amirpasha joined BSC in May 2023.

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