Joan Sala Calero

Joan Sala graduated in 2009 in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and his main expertise resides in GIS, data management, image processing, remote sensing and climate data. Mr Sala has worked in several FP7/H2020/ESA projects (FAST, Water Switch-ON, MyOcean, RASOR, ESA-SEOM, ...) across multiple scientific domains and two operational Copernicus Services (Copernicus Marine - CMEMS and the Copernicus Climate Change Service - C3S). In all the mentioned projects he has been applying scientific data and metadata standards such as (OGC, INSPIRE , CF-conventions, ...). He is currently working for the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in the C3S_512 contract assessing the quality of data and metadata within the CDS (Climate Data Store).