Summary
Iñigo Mensa is a physicist-turned-computational scientist with 11+ years designing, building and administering large-scale HPC infrastructures at CSIC, currently managing seven clusters with over 7,500 cores and a 271 TFLOPS theoretical peak. He specializes in bridging theoretical models and numerical implementations—parallelizing and optimizing scientific codes, teaching best practices, and enabling researchers to adopt computational thinking as a core research method. A lifelong educator and Carpentries instructor-trainer, he organizes workshops and international conferences to raise scientific computing literacy across disciplines. Comfortable from bare-metal system setup to data visualization and code profiling, he also oversees data center operations and procurement, bringing both hands-on systems skills and long-term strategic planning to research computing.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Fundamental - Theoretical Physics, Physics, Fundamental - Theoretical Physics at Universidad de Zaragoza
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Condensed Matter and Materials Physics at EHU
English, French, Spanish, Basque