Sergi Bartolomé is an informatics engineer, graduated in the Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 2016, who joined the UB Gaia team in april 2017. As the Data Processing Center of Barcelona (DPCB) operator, he is in charge of assuring the correct input and output data flow of the center, and also manages the IDU executions in MareNostrum (BSC-CNS).

On a personal level, he’s a music and videogames enthusiast, environmentalist and animal rights activist, and spends his free time learning more and more about this topics.

Physics bachelor, specialized in cosmology, astronomy and meteorology. In my free time I play some music and/or watch the skies.

Javier Castañeda finished his Telecommunication Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in 2004. After several years working in the private sector, in 2006 he joined the Gaia project as researcher at the Institute of Cosmos Science of the Barcelona University (ICCUB). Since then, he has led the design, development and execution of one of the main data processing systems of the Gaia mission which is operated in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). In the meantime, he achieved in 2008 the Master Degree in Computational Astronomy and completed his PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Barcelona in 2015. Apart from his work in the Gaia mission, he participated in 2013 in the foundation of DAPCOM Data Services S.L., a UB and UPC spin-off company specialised on data compression software and the provision of tailored and integrated data handling solutions, where he participates as a technical advisor.