Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- working_groups:computational_earth_sciences [2023/01/16 14:17]
ejodry [Data and Diagnostics Team]
+++ working_groups:computational_earth_sciences [2024/09/18 14:00] (current)
shearne
@@ Line 12: / Line 12: @@
-The group is led by Kim Serradell and is organised in 3 teams ("Models and Workflows", "Performance" and "Data and Diagnostics") as shown below.
+The group is led by Mario Acosta and Miguel Castrillo 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 [[:working_groups:starting_at_ces|some guidelines when starting working in CES]]
@@ Line 24: / Line 24: @@
 ==== Models and workflows team ====
-**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.
+**Current members:** Miguel Castrillo (team leader), Francesca Macchia (team leader), Mario Acosta, Miriam Olid, Carles Tena, Gilbert Montané, Daniel Beltrán, Eric Ferrer, Manuel Giménez de Castro, Genis Bonet, Francesc Roura Adserias, Aina Gaya Àvila, Pablo Goitia González, Naiara Alonso Montes, Alejandro García López, Amirpasha Mozaffari, Artur Viñas Ferran, Bruno De Paula Kinoshita, Carmen Piñero Megías, Edgar Garriga Nogales, Enric Millan Iglesias, Ivan Alsina Ferrer, Leo Arriola i Meikle, Luiggi Gianpere Tenorio Ku.
-**Purpose: Development of HPC user-friendly software framework for Earth system modelling and the management of operational systems**
+**Purpose: Development of HPC user-friendly software framework for Earth system modeling and the management of operational systems**
@@ Line 38: / Line 39: @@
-**Projects and softwares developed:**
+**Projects and software developed:**
 ^ Software tools      ^ Auto-Models   ^ Models         ^
@@ Line 57: / Line 58: @@
 ==== Performance team ====
-**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.
+**Current members:** Xavier Yepes (team leader), Razvan Aguridan (team leader), Mario Acosta, Miguel Castrillo, Sergi Palomas, Christian Guzman, Iria Ayan, Carlos Peña, Oscar Michel, Kai Keller, Roc Salvardor, Victor Correal, Alexey Medvedev, Andrew Forembski.
@@ Line 80: / Line 81: @@
 ==== Data and Diagnostics Team ====
-**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.
+**Current members:** Francesco Benincasa, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière (team leaders), Saskia Loosveldt Tomas, Margarida Samsó, Daniel Trujillo, Giulia Carella, Elliott Rose, Amanda Duarte, Marvin Axness, Supriyo Ghosh, Stamen Miroslavov, Santiago Ramírez, Alba Vilanova Cortezón, Paula Serrano Sierra.
@@ Line 171: / Line 172: @@
 {{:working_groups:members:pa.jpg?100 |}} \\
 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
 ----
-==== Carlos Alberto Gomez Gonzalez ====
-{{:working_groups:carlosgomez.jpg?90 |}}
-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|carlos.gomez@bsc.es]] [[https://es.linkedin.com/in/carlgogo/|Linkedin]] [[https://github.com/carlgogo/|GitHub]] \\
-----
 ==== Miguel Castrillo ====
@@ Line 191: / Line 186: @@
 Contact: miguel.castrillo@bsc.es, [[https://twitter.com/Monoftalmos|Twitter]], [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguel-castrillo-melguizo-2234522b|Linkedin]]
-Short Bio: Miguel Castrillo (Male), Computer Scientist in the Computational Earth Sciences group: Miguel has an MSc in Computer Science from the University of León and a BA in Geography and History from the National Distance Education University of Spain (UNED). Having experience as an analyst and software developer for different private sector companies, he joined the Computational Earth Sciences group in the Earth Sciences department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in 2012. Since then, he has been participating in different projects, due to his experience in various technical fields. Nevertheless, he specialized in HPC performance and workflows for Earth Science models, being involved in the IS-ENES2, IS-ENES3, ESiWACE and ESiWACE2 H2020 projects, as well as the IMMERSE H2020 project and Copernicus CMEMS 87 HPC ORCA36 as PI. Miguel has also contributed to the preparation and research support of several PRACE projects (HiResNTCP, Glob15km, LSIHP, HiResSIR, etc). During this time, he has been a member of the NEMO System Team, the NEMO HPC working group, the EC-Earth technical working group, and the recently created EC-Earth4 working group. He is currently head of the Models and Workflows Team in the Earth Sciences department at the same time as he is doing a Masters degree in Artificial Intelligence in the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
+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.
 ----
-==== Julian Rodrigo Berlin ====
-{{:working_groups:julian.jpg?100 |}} \\
-Research Engineer - [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jberlin/|Linkedin]] \\
-Interests: Computer Science, Software Engineering ,High Performance Computing , Geosciences \\
-Contact: [[julian.berlin@bsc.es|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 17 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, 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 ([[http://www.changes-itn.eu/|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 the maintenance and development of Auto-EC-Earth workflow manager and other internal tools of the department apart of providing support and help on related topics.
-----
 ==== Gilbert Montané Pinto ====
 {{:working_groups:members:gmontane.jpg?100 |}}
@@ Line 224: / Line 211: @@
 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.
 ----
-==== Kim Serradell ====
-{{:working_groups:members:foto_kim.jpg?100 |}}
-Computational Earth Sciences group leader - [[http://es.linkedin.com/in/kserradell/|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.
-----
 ==== Carles Tena ====
@@ Line 270: / Line 247: @@
 ==== Albert Vila ====
-{{:working_groups:albertvila.jpg?100 |}} \\
+{{:working_groups:foto_dni_original_2_edit_edit.jpg?100 |}} \\
 Position: IT Technician\\
@@ Line 286: / Line 263: @@
 Interests: HPC performance, Scientific Models, Computer Architecture \\
 Contact:[[christian.guzman@bsc.es|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.
+Short bio: 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.
-----
-==== Lluís Palma García ====
-{{:working_groups:members:lluis_palma.jpg?100 |}} \\
-Position: Junior research engineer\\
-Interests: Climate modelling and forecasting, Earth observation, Renewable energies and Computational sciences.\\
-Contact: [[lluis.palma@bsc.es|lluis.palma@bsc.es]] - [[https://es.linkedin.com/in/llu%C3%ADs-palma-garc%C3%ADa-852a53130|LinkedIn]]\\
 ----
@@ Line 318: / Line 288: @@
 ==== Daniel Beltrán Mora ====
 {{:working_groups:daniel_beltran.jpg?100 |}} \\
-Position: Junior research engineer\\
+Position: Workflow Management Software Engineer\\
 Interests: High Performance Computing, computer architecture , Workflows\\
 Contact: [[daniel.beltran@bsc.es|daniel.beltran@bsc.es]] \\
@@ Line 328: / Line 298: @@
 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.
 ----
-==== Stella Valentina Paronuzzi Ticco ====
-{{:working_groups:stella_paronuzzi.jpg?100 |}} \\
-Position: Research Engineer\\
-Interests: Earth Sciences, Computer Sciences, HPC \\
-Contact: [[stella.paronuzzi@bsc.es|stella.paronuzzi@bsc.es]] - [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/stella-valentina-paronuzzi-ticco-5a839a95/|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).
-----
-==== An-Chi Ho ====
-{{:working_groups:anchiho.jpg?100 |}} \\
-Position: Research Engineer\\
-Contact: [[an.ho@bsc.es|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.
-----
@@ Line 416: / Line 369: @@
 ----
-==== Eva Rifà Rovira====
-{{:working_groups:eva_rifa.jpeg?100|}} \\
-**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.
-----
-==== Cristian Gutiérrez Gómez ====
-{{:working_groups:cristian-gutierrez.jpeg?100|}} \\
-**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.
-----
 ==== Carlos Peña de Pedro ====
@@ Line 561: / Line 493: @@
 ----
-==== Vijendra Singh ====
-{{:working_groups:img_20180304_111648-1_01.jpg?100|}}
-**Position:** Research Engineer\\
+==== Aina Gaya i Àvila ====
-**Interests**: Compilers(C & Fortran),HPC Models, Optimizing Codes, Software Development\\
+{{:working_groups:aina_gaya.jpg?99|}}
-**Contact:** [[vijendra.singh@bsc.es]]\\
+**Position:** Junior Research Engineer\\
+**Interests:** Computational Physics, HPC
+**Contact:** [[aina.gayayavila@bsc.es]], [[https://at.linkedin.com/in/ainagaya|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.
+----
+==== Francesc Roura Adserias ====
+{{:working_groups:francesc_roura_new.png?125|}}
+**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, [[https://twitter.com/elmeteoroleg|Twitter]], [[https://at.linkedin.com/in/francescroura|Linkedin]]
+Short Bio: Francesc Roura Adserias (him), 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.
+----
+==== Victor Correal ====
+{{::|}}
+**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.
+----
+==== Stamen Miroslavov Minkov ====
+{{:working_groups:stamen_picture.jpg?120|}} \\
+\\
+**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|stamen.miroslavov@bsc.es]], [[https://es.linkedin.com/in/stamen-miroslavov-minkov|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.
+----
+==== Supriyo Ghosh ====
+{{:working_groups:supriyo_ghosh_photo.png?100 |}} \\
+\\
+**Position:** Junior Research Engineer (Python Developer) \\
+**Contact:** [[supriyo.ghosh@bsc.es|supriyo.ghosh@bsc.es]], [[https://es.linkedin.com/in/ghossh|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).
+----
+==== Amirpasha Mozaffari ====
+{{:working_groups:amirpasha.png?125|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:** Geosciences HPC, Workflow, FAIR and reproducibility\\
+**Contact:** [[amirpasha.mozaffari@bsc.es|amirpasha.mozaffari@bsc.es]],[[https://amirpasha.me/|personal website]], [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirpasha-mozaffari/|LinkedIn]], [[https://twitter.com/apmozaffari|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.
+----
+==== Roc Salvador Andreazini ====
+{{:working_groups:roc_salvador.jpg?125|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Junior Research Engineer (Performance Team) \\
+**Interests:** HPC, Computational complexity \\
+**Contact:** [[roc.salvador@bsc.es]] \\
+\\
+\\
+**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.
+----
+==== Pablo Goitia González ====
+{{:working_groups:pablogoitia.jpg?nolink&125|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Undergraduate Student \\
+**Interests:** High Performance Computing, Performance \\
+**Contact:** [[pablo.goitia@bsc.es]] \\
+\\
+\\
+**Short bio:**. Pablo Goitia is a BSc in Computer Engineering student from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Cantabria (UC), Spain. Before starting at BSC and during his degree, he worked as an IT support in the same Faculty he studied thanks to the Becas Santander Prácticas award, and he also actively participates in student representation activities, such as advising other students or working on a mental health project.
+Pablo joined BSC in June 2023.
+----
+==== Alexey Medvedev ====
+{{:working_groups:avm.jpg?nolink&125|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Senior Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:**  parallel programming, CUDA, MPI, HPC, generative programming, best practices in software design \\
+**Contact:** [[alexey.medvedev@bsc.es]]  [[https://es.linkedin.com/in/alexey-medvedev-53105b19|Linkedin]] \\
+\\
+\\
+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.
+----
+==== Rommel Quintanilla ====
+{{:working_groups:rommel_quintanilla.jpg?nolink&125|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:**  GPU computing, HPC \\
+**Contact:** [[rommel.quintanilla@bsc.es]]  [[https://es.linkedin.com/in/rommelqc|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.
+----
+==== Okke van Eck ====
+{{:working_groups:foto_okke.jpg?nolink&125|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:**  Complexity Theory, HPC \\
+**Contact:** [[okke.vaneck@bsc.es]]  [[https://linkedin.com/in/okkevaneck|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. From September 2023 onwards, he will work on the Destination Earth project for BSC where he will port the digital twins to GPUs.
+----
+==== Mayssa Kchaou ====
+{{:working_groups:Mayssa_kchaou.jpg?nolink&125|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Junior Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:**  Machine Learning, AI, NLP\\
+**Contact:** [[mayssa.kchaou@bsc.es]]  [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayssa-kchaou/|Linkedin]] \\
+\\
+\\
+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.
+----
+==== Luiggi Tenorio Ku ====
+{{:working_groups:luiggitenorio.jpeg?nolink&125|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:**  Software Development, HPC, Big Data, Data Science, Best Practices\\
+**Contact:** [[luiggi.tenorio@bsc.es]]  [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/ltenoriok/|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.
+----
+==== Santiago Ramírez A. ====
+{{:working_groups:sramirez.jpeg?125 |}}
+**Position:** Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:**  FullStack Web Development, Data Management, UI/UX\\
+**Contact:** [[santiago.ramirez@bsc.es]] \\
+\\
+**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).
+----
+==== Carmen Piñero Megías ====
+{{:working_groups:carmen_pinero.jpeg?nolink&125|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Junior Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:**  Software Development, HPC, Computational Physics, Earth Sciences, Physics of Complex Systems\\
+**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.
+----
+==== Paula Serrano Sierra ====
+{{:working_groups:paula_serrano.jpg?nolink&125|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Junior Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:**  HPC, Data Science, Computer Vision, ML, Software development\\
+**Contact:** [[paula.serrano@bsc.es|paula.serrano@bsc.es]], [[http://linkedin.com/in/paula-serrano-sierra|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.
+----
+==== Ariadna Batalla Ferrés ====
+{{:working_groups:ariadnabatallaferres.jpg?nolink&125|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Junior Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:**  Data Science, Statistics, HPC, Earth Sciences\\
+**Contact:** [[ariadna.batalla@bsc.es|ariadna.batalla@bsc.es]], [[http://linkedin.com/in/ariadna-batalla-ferres|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.
+----
+==== Marta Alerany Solé ====
+{{:working_groups:martaalerany.jpg?nolink&125|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Junior Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:**  Computational Physics, HPC, Earth Sciences\\
+**Contact:** [[marta.alerany@bsc.es|marta.alerany@bsc.es]], [[http://www.linkedin.com/in/maleranysolé|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).
+----
+==== Maitane Fariñas Argoitia ====
+{{:working_groups:maitane_farinas.jpg?140|}}
+\\
+**Position:** Junior Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:**  Computational Physics, Computational Modelling, Earth Sciences\\
+**Contact:** [[maitane.farinas@bsc.es|maitane.farinas@bsc.es]], [[http://www.linkedin.com/in/maitane-fariñas-argoitia|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.
-**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.
 [[working_groups:ces:former_members|Former members]]
+----
+==== H. Andres Gonzalez Gongora====
+{{:working_groups:andres-gonzalez-profile-pic.jpeg?nolink&125|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Research Machine Learning Engineer \\
+**Interests:**  Machine Learning, AI, NLP\\
+**Contact:** [[andres.gonzalez@bsc.es]]  [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-gonzalez-gongora-4b428613b/|Linkedin]] \\
+\\
+\\
+Andres Gonzalez 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, Andres 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.
+----
+==== Marcel Cases Freixenet ====
+{{:working_groups:marcel_cases.jpg?100|}}
+\\
+\\
+**Position**: Junior Research Engineer\\
+**Interests:**  computer languages, computational modeling, optimization, HPC, ML, computer networks, logic synthesis (FPGA) \\
+**Contact**: [[marcel.cases@bsc.es|marcel.cases@bsc.es]]  [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelcases|LinkedIn]] [[https://marcelcases.com|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.
+----
+==== Artur Viñas Ferran ====
+{{:working_groups:artur_vinas.jpg?200|}}
+\\
+**Position:** Junior Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:**  Software Development, Computational Physics, Earth Sciences\\
+**Contact:** [[artur.vinas@bsc.es]] \\
+\\
+**Short bio:** Artur 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.
+----
+==== Edgar Garriga Nogales====
+{{:working_groups:edgar_garriga.jpeg?nolink&150|}}
+**Position:** Workflow Management Software Engineer \\
+**Interests:** HPC, Cloud Computing, Parallel Computing, Software Developing, Reproducibility \\
+**Contact:** [[edgar.garriga@bsc.es]] [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/edgargarriga/|LinkedIn]] [[https://edgargarriga.com/|Personal Website]]\\
+**Short bio:** Edgar (he, him) has a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Universidad de Murcia and a MSc in Bioinformatics from the UAB. He did a PhD in Bioinformatics at the CRG on the Notredame's lab (Comparative bioinformatics group). During his studies he studied in Poland (Lodz), USA (Iowa) and Brazil (Porto Alegre). He is an passionate of containers and workflows managers (mainly Nextflow). After the PhD he moved has Senior Bioinformatician at Sanger (Hixton, UK).
+Another face of his life has been human rights and he has been involved in multiple task supporting people on the move.
+----
+==== Lorena Gallardo Carbonell====
+{{:working_groups:lorena_gallardo.png?150|}}
+**Position:** Junior Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:** Software development, Computational Chemistry, 3D Modelling, Quantum mechanics, Logics \\
+**Contact:** [[lorena.gallardo@bsc.es]]\\
+**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.
+----
+==== Naiara Alonso Montes====
+{{:working_groups:naiara_alonso.png?150|}}
+**Position:** Undergraduate Student  \\
+**Interests:** Cybersecurity, HPC, Parallel Computing \\
+**Contact:** [[naiara.alonso@bsc.es]] [[https://es.linkedin.com/in/naiara-alonso/|LinkedIn]]\\
+**Short bio:** Naiara Alonso joined the Computational Earth Sciences group thanks to BSC International Summer HPC Internship Programme in the 2024 edition. She is currently a BSc Computer Science student at the University of Cantabria (UC), on her last year. Before that, she has been studying abroad for one year in the University of Maribor, in Slovenia, and actively participating as volunteer in student organizations.
+----
+==== Enric Millán Iglesias====
+{{:working_groups:photo_resized_small.jpg?150|}}
+**Position:** Undergraduate Student  \\
+**Interests:** Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence\\
+**Contact:** [[enric.millan@bsc.es]] [[enric.millan.iglesias@estudiantat.upc.edu]]\\
+**Short bio:** Enric Millán joined the Models and Workflows team, of the Computational Earth Sciences group, through the BSC International Summer HPC Internship Programme in June 2024. He is currently a Bachelor's degree in Data Science and Engineering student at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), just having finished his third year. In his free time he enjoys watching films and series as well as playing videogames and practising sport.
+----
+==== Manuel Giménez de Castro Marciani====
+{{:working_groups:manuel_gimenez.jpg?150|}}
+**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.
+----
+==== Andrew Forembski ====
+{{:working_groups:andrew_forembski.jpg?150|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** RE2 Recognised Researcher \\
+**Interests:** parallel programming, heterogeneous computing, CUDA/HIP, HPC, numerical algorithms, quantum mechanics \\
+**Contact:** [[andrew.forembski@bsc.es]]  [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-forembski-phd-612a15126/|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.
+\\
+\\
+----
+==== Razvan Aguridan ====
+{{:working_groups:razvan_aguridan.jpeg?150|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Research Software Engineer \\
+**Interests:** parallel programming, heterogeneous computing, CUDA, FPGA, numerical computing, game development \\
+**Contact:** [[razvan.aguridan@bsc.es]]
+**Short bio:** Razvan has worked as a software engineer developing Linux kernel drivers and various user-space applications for embedded systems, as a systems architect developing automotive gateways and as a software research engineer developing multio, ECMWF's IO server.
+\\
+\\
+----
+==== Johanna Gehlen ====
+{{:working_groups:johanna_gehlen.jpg?150|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Junior Research Engineer \\
+**Interests:** Complex System Simulation, Earth Science, Scientific Computing \\
+**Contact:** [[johanna.gehlen@bsc.es]]
+**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.
+\\
+\\
+==== Shane Hearne ====
+{{:working_groups:Shane_Hearne.jpg?150|}}\\
+\\
+**Position:** Technical Coordinator \\
+**Interests:** Earth Science, Quantum Technologies, Satellite Communications, Computational Physics \\
+**Contact:** [[shane.hearne@bsc.es]]
+**Short bio:** Shane is a technical coordinator in the Computational Earth Sciences group coordinating the Destination Earth project. He holds an undergraduate degree in Applied Physics and a research master's from the Walton Institute, focused on Quantum Satellite Communications. He has worked as a Research Engineer at onsemi, as a Software R&D Consultant at KPMG and as a Primary Research Manager at PreScouter.
+\\
+\\
+----

User Tools

Site Tools

Differences

Page Tools