I am originally from Ticino, but I studied at ETH Zürich. I have a Bachelor and Master degree in Computational Science and Engineering with a specialization in atmospheric and climate science and fluid dynamics. I think it is fascinating that we are able to (quite accurately) simulate the Earth's atmosphere starting, in principle, from a set of equations. Also, I am passionate about HPC and love solving bugs as a challenge.During my studies I already worked quite a bit with ICON and mostly in the context of GT4Py. Now, I am working with ETHZ and MeteoSwiss on optimizing the HAM aerosol model on GPUs.