The main governance boards of BSC are the Board of Trustees and the Executive Commission. Both as well as of members of the BSC, are made up of members of the three shareholding institutions of the BSC
The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
(Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación)
The Catalan Ministry of Business and Knowledge
(Departament d'Empresa i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya)
The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Board of Trustees and Executive Commission
The Board of Trustees is responsible, amongst other things, for appointing the Director; setting the general criteria for the operation of BSC; and approving the annual action plan, the multi-annual budgetary framework and the annual budget.
President:
- Rafael Rodrigo, Secretary General of Scientific Policy Coordination. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities
Vice President:
- Francesc Xavier Grau, Secretary General for Universities and Research, DEMC
MCIU Representatives:
- José Ignacio Doncel, Deputy Director General of Large Scientific and Technical Facilities
- José Juan Sánchez Serrano, Deputy Director General of Science and Innovation Internationalization
DEMC Representatives:
- Joan Gómez Pallarès, Director General of Research
- Iolanda Font de Rubinat, Deputy Director General of Research
UPC Representatives:
- Francesc Torres, Rector
- Luca Pelà, Vice Rector for Scientific Politics
- Jordi Berenguer, Vice Rector of Knowledge and Innovation Transfer
Commission Secretaries:
- Marta Ayllón, State lawyer
- Fernando Vizcaíno, State lawyer
BSC Guests:
- Mateo Valero, Director
- Josep Maria Martorell, Associate Director
- Alexandre Puerto, Director of Management Department
The BSC Management Board
The BSC Management Board is chaired by the centre’s Director and is made up of the Associate Director and the department directors. The Board meets regularly to discuss the technical, scientific and administrative management of the centre.
BSC Management Board members:
- Mateo Valero, Director
- Josep Maria Martorell, Associate Director
- Jesús Labarta, Computer Science Director
- Eduard Ayguadé, Computer Science Associate Director
- Alfonso Valencia, Life Sciences Director
- Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes, Earth Sciences Director
- José María Cela, Computer Applications in Science and Engineering Director
- Sergi Girona, Operations Director
- Alexandre Puerto, Director of Management Department
The Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Board is made up of distinguished senior scientists and science managers from around the world. It reports to the BSC-CNS Board of Trustees, and meets periodically to analyse BSC-CNS’s research programmes, results and plans. The Board issues a written report which evaluates the period in question and includes suggestions and advice for the future. The current members of the board are:
Dr. Bonnie Berger, Simons professor of mathematics and professor of electrical engineering and computer science, MIT, USA - Dr. Carlos Brito, FAPESP, Sao Paolo, Brasil
- Dr. Pascale Braconnot, Researcher Laboratory for Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE)
- Dr. Soren Brunak, Professor at the Technical University Copenhagen, Denmark
- Dr. Qian Depei, Beinhang University, China
- Dr. Christian Hasse, Professor at TU Darmstadt
- Dr. Bryan Lawrence, Univ. of Reading, UK
- Dr. Bob Lucas, Research Associate Professor, Computer Science University of Southern California and Distinguished Engineer, Livermore Software Technology, Livermore, CA
- Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka, Director of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan
- Dr. Paul Messina, Director, Computational Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Dr. Ron Perrott, University of Oxford, CHAIR
- Dr. Francesca Rossi, IBM and President elect of the American Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Italy and USA
- Dr. Reinhard Schneider, Head of bioinformatics core facility, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Dr. Janet Thornton, Director at the European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
- Dr. Kathy Yelick, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the UC Berkeley, USA
The Access Committee
Access to the MareNostrum supercomputer and the other nodes in the Spanish National Supercomputing Network (RES) is free. Public calls are published regularly, and scientists wishing to use the resources submit a written proposal online. These proposals are evaluated by the Access Committee, which is made up of prestigious Spanish scientists.
The Access Committee core team is formed by four members:
- a BSC-CNS external manager with wide experience in Innovation Management: Francisco Herrada, MEIC
- an ANEP representative: Julio Bravo
- a supercomputing expert, external to BSC-CNS, but part of the RES: Javier Garcia Tobio, CESGA
- a supercomputing expert, member of BSC-CNS: Jordi Torres
The Access Committee is advised by a panel of external experts which is divided into four groups, following the classification of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT):
- Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences:
- Claudio Dalla Vecchia, Instituto Astrofísica de Canarias
- Ivone Jiménez-Munt, Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera.
- Biomedicine and Health Sciences:
- Modesto Orozco, IRB
- Ana Rojas, IBIS – HUVR Sevilla
- Physics:
- Edilberto Sánchez, CIEMAT
- Rosalía Serna, CSIC
- Engineering and Mathematics
- José Mª Desantes, Universitat Politècnica de València
- Peregrina Quintela, USC
- Chemistry of Biological systems:
- Vicente Moliner, Universitat Jaume I
- Eduado Matito, DIPC
- Chemistry of Solids
- Fernando Cossio, EHU
- María Verónica Ganduglia-Pirovano, CSIC