Nicolau Manubens obtained a licentiate in informatics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2014, and has since worked as a software engineer at various weather and climate forecasting and research institutions. He is currently employed at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and is a Ph.D. candidate at EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, doing research work on HPC storage for km-scale Numerical Weather Prediction in the context of the Destination Earth initiative.