Events

Following the first edition’s success, we are pleased to announce the second HANAMI High-Level Symposium on EU-Japan Collaboration in High-Performance Computing (HPC).

 

This event will bring together leading experts, policymakers, and researchers from Europe and Japan to discuss the latest advancements, challenges, and opportunities in HPC collaboration, with a special focus on scientific areas around climate, modelling, biomedical and materials science.

 

Date: December 8-11, 2025

Location: Chamonix, France

 

The symposium will feature keynote speakers, panel discussions, and networking opportunities, fostering cooperation in cutting-edge HPC technologies and their applications across various industries.

 

Stay tuned for more details!

Note: Registration will be available by invitation.

 

Invited Speakers

 

Climate and Weather Modelling

 

Masaki Satoh

The University of Tokyo/Yokohama National University

 

Masaki Satoh is a Professor at the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Japan, and also serves as Vice Director and Professor at the Typhoon Science and Technology Research Centre, Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Yokohama National University, through a cross-appointment. He specialises in atmospheric dynamics, tropical meteorology, climate change, and numerical modelling. A pioneer in global storm-resolving models, he has advanced weather and climate studies through the Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM). His work emphasises tropical cyclones, mesoscale systems, and satellite data analysis. Prof. Satoh has contributed as a Lead Author for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and holds key leadership roles in Japanese and international meteorological organisations, including the Meteorological Society of Japan and the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society.

 

 

 

Daniel Klocke

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

 

Daniel Klocke leads the group Computational Infrastructure and Model Development at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. He coordinates the development of the Earth System Model ICON, focusing on high-resolution climate simulations and high-performance computing. Until 2021, he was a research area director in the Hans Ertle Centre for Weather Research at the German Weather Service, developing high-resolution atmospheric models to study atmospheric convection. Since 2018, Daniel Klocke has co-chaired the Global Atmospheric System Studies panel of the World Climate Research Program’s core project GEWEX.

 

 

 

Biomedical Science

 

 

Emmanuel Barillot

Institut Curie

 

Emmanuel Barillot is the Head of the Department of Computational Oncology at Institut Curie (U900 INSERM, in partnership with Mines ParisTech). He is also the Scientific Director of the institute Curie Bioinformatics Core Facility, which is an expert in biological data integration, omics data analysis, and support for precision medicine. He also holds a Chair in Cancer Genomics at the Paris Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (PRAIRIE). Emmanuel Barillot has published ~250 articles in bioinformatics, genomics, systems biology, cancer biology, translational and clinical cancer research, biophysics and computer science.

 

 

Materials Science

 

Núria López

Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia

 

Núria López obtained her BSC Chemistry (1995) and her PhD degree in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Barcelona, Spain (1999). Then she joined the Centre for Atomic-scale Materials Physics, led by Prof. Jens K. Nørskov (Denmark), as a post-doctoral researcher. In 2005, she started her independent career at ICIQ. Her research group focuses on the study of heterogeneous photo-electro-catalysis from a theoretical standpoint. In 2010, she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant (2010) and then an ERC Proof-of-concept (2015) by the European Research Council. She was awarded a “Prize for Excellence” by the Real Sociedad Española de Química in 2015 and participated in the consortium that won the RSC’s 2022 John Jeyes Award for sustainability. She has collaborated with several industries in Europe to leverage atomistic modelling, participated in more than 10 EU projects, and served in several committees in the European Union, including the most important supercomputing initiatives in Europe (being Chair of PRACE‘s Steering Committee and INFRAG (EuroHPC-JU)). Prof. López has an h-index of 85 and has published over 300 articles. She is a pioneer in the introduction of open data practices via ioChem-BD, the computational catalysis database developed at ICIQ.