Dr. De Andrés is a postdoctoral researcher who has been a fellow at the Barcelona Expert Center (BEC, Spain) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM, Spain) for three years. She specializes in glacier–fjord modeling, investigating fine-scale ice–ocean interactions, examining their influence on submarine melt rates, calving dynamics, glacier mass loss, fjord circulation, and freshwater export. Dr. De Andrés is also exploring new applications of the SMOS-SSS satellite sensor, with the aim to detect sea surface freshening from ice melting in the Arctic.

Dr. José Manuel Muñoz Hermosilla is a physicist with a PhD in Earth Sciences from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. His doctoral research focused on developing a 3D numerical model to estimate frontal ablation of tidewater glaciers. With a strong background in physics and geophysics (BSc in Physics and MSc in Geophysics at University of Granada), he obtained the highest grade with his doctoral thesis. He has published a paper in a high-impact journal, The Cryosphere. Currently, as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), he is investigating the influence of debris cover on glacier mass balance and retreat.

Dr. Kaian Shahateet is currently working at Université Grenoble Alpes in France, where he is analyzing the ice shelf dynamics in Antarctica through the combination of remote sensing, deep learning, and finite element methods. His research focus is on relating the ice damages (e.g., fractures) observed in satellite images to changes in the rheology of ice. Shahateet received an award from the SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) in 2024 and a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 2022.

Jaime Otero received an MSc in Mathematics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, in 1998, and a PhD from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, in 2008. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Modeling of Ice Sheet–Lake Interactions and formerly Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. His research focuses on dynamics of marine and lake terminating glaciers and glaciological applications of geostatistics.