Jose Maria Cela
Cela is PhD. in Telecommunication Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Professor of Computer Architecture at same university since 1996. He is director of the Department of Computer Applications in Science and Engineering at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) since 2007. He has directed more than 25 R & D projects, has published over 40 articles and has participated in almost a 100 international conferences. His research is related to numerical simulation in engineering and high performance computing (HPC). In recent years, his research has focused on the energy sector. He directs the joint research center Repsol-BSC. In addition, he is responsible for the macro-research project with Iberdrola renewables and several other projects in the field of fusion energy.