Xavier Yepes-Arbós is a research engineer of the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) where he leads the High-Performance Computing for Earth Sciences Team. 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 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He joined BSC in 2015 to work on different research lines, including scalability and performance analysis of Earth system models (ESMs), optimization of the computational and I/O processes, data compression and explore novel hardware architectures.