Joaquim Bento is a physical oceanographer with over 20 years’ professional and academic experience in ocean science. Until 2022, he worked as a lecturer and researcher at a leading university in Chile where he participated in academic and industry-driven projects, and co-authored several high-impact publications. In recent years, he contributed to an open-source computational system for operational meteorology and oceanography as a core developer and discovered and mapped deep-sea gas hydrate reservoirs along the Chilean margins. At The Metals Company, he works with a multidisciplinary team ensuring that all environmental data from TMC’s contract areas is openly accessible in line with the company’s transparency initiatives and ocean science best practice in data quality, processing, and formatting. He brings extensive experience in high-performance data processing, data management, visualisation, and hydrodynamic numerical models to the company.