Balthasar Reuter is a Senior Computational Scientist in the Research Department of ECMWF. He investigates modern software engineering techniques such as source-to-source translation and code generation to bring performance portability and accelerator readiness into numerical weather prediction models. He leads the HPC adaptation workstream at ECMWF in the European Commission's Destination Earth initiative. His scientific background is in numerical methods, in particular discontinuous Galerkin methods, and parallel computing.