Daniel Klocke holds a PhD in Meteorology with extensive experience with numerical models for weather forecasting and climate research. His work focused on high-resolution simulations and is currently coordinating the international DYAMOND project, which is pioneering global coupled storm and ocean-eddy resolving simulations. Recently he joined the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology as the lead of the computational infrastructure and model development group, is responsible for the coordination of the ICON development at MPI-M and is a member of the ICON coordination group, which manages the model development across the ICON partner institutions.