Team Members — Experts powering the future

Gijs van den Oord
WP4 Leader / Section head “Natural Sciences and Engineering” at NLeSC
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Gijs is a physicist by training and did his PhD on the Monte Carlo simulation of scattering of electroweak gauge bosons in the Large Hadron Collider. He worked for a while as a software consultant at Deltares, Netherlands, after which he joined the eScience Center as a research software engineer. His work has mostly focused around the weather and climate domains, and he aims to leverage his expertise on HPC, machine learning and software architecture to advance the field towards unprecedented accuracy and resolution.
Gijs van den Oord
WP4 Leader / Section head “Natural Sciences and Engineering” at NLeSC
Karsten Peters-von Gehlen
WP3 Leader / Group leader “Data Handling Workflows” at DKRZ
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Karsten holds a PhD in meteorology and has - in his life as a scientist - mainly worked on the representation of clouds and convection in general circulation and storm-resolving models and combined that with observations. Since more than 7 years now, Karsten works at the German Climate Compting Center (DKRZ) in Hamburg in the Data Management Department. There, he focuses on methods to maximize the usability of high-resolution, high-volume climate model datasets and the establishment of the FDO (FAIR Digital Object) concept for climate science.
Karsten Peters-von Gehlen
WP3 Leader / Group leader “Data Handling Workflows” at DKRZ
Maria Arista-Romero
WP6 Leader
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Maria holds a PhD in Nanosciences and specialises in Scientific Communication and Event Management. She is currently a Scientific Communication Officer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), managing communication on high-performance computing and climate and weather. With a background in Biochemistry, she earned an MSc in Bioengineering and Molecular Genetics and completed her PhD at IBEC and the University of Barcelona, focusing on Nanoscopy for Nanomedicine. She has led numerous outreach initiatives, creating educational content and organizing events to connect science with the public.
Maria Arista-Romero
WP6 Leader
Mario Acosta
WP1 Leader / ESiWACE3 coordinator
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Mario C. Acosta is a leading researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He is currently co-leading the Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group, which has over 70 members. Dr. Acosta’s research focuses on High Performance Computing (HPC) applied to Earth System Models. He is the coordinator of the HorizonE ESiWACE3: Center of Excellence for Weather and Climate Phase 3 and work package leader in HPC tasks related to the development of significant climate projects, such as the climate digital twin in Destination Earth.
Mario Acosta
WP1 Leader / ESiWACE3 coordinator
Peter Dueben
Head of Earth System Modelling at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
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Peter is coordinating the development of one of the world’s leading global weather forecast models — The Integrated Forecasting System (IFS). He is also a Honorary Professor at the University of Cologne. Before, he was AI and Machine Learning Coordinator at ECMWF and University Research Fellow of the Royal Society performing research towards the use of machine learning, high-performance computing, and reduced numerical precision in weather and climate simulations. Peter is coordinator of the WeatherGenerator Horizon Europe project that aims to build a machine-learned foundation model for weather and climate applications.
Peter Dueben
Head of Earth System Modelling at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Rosa Rodríguez Gasén
WP7 member
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Rosa has a degree in Physics, an MSc in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Barcelona (UB). After more than ten years dedicated to research in solar astrophysics, she enrolled in a master’s degree in Specialised Translation at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). This led her to work as a translator and scientific reviser, as well as to enter the world of science education, popularisation and communication. Rosa is currently responsible for the communication of the Earth Sciences Department’s research at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC).
Rosa Rodríguez Gasén
WP7 member