About Me

I am a Scientific Programmer in the Modelling of Atmospheric Processes department of the Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics (IAP). I previously completed my MSc in Computational Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) funded by the Amsterdam Merit Scholarship and specialized in high performance computing with a particular interest in distributed discretization methods (see GalerkinToolkit.jl) and numerical methods for partial differential equations. Before UvA, I completed my B.S. in Computer Science at Middle Tennessee State University and was the recipient of the Goldwater Scholarship.

My work now is centered around DevOps, automation, visualization, and code sustainability for the upper atmosphere codes of the Icosahedral Nonhydrostatic (ICON) Model, one of the world’s leading global climate and numerical weather prediction models. I also develop in-house software to support the scientists at the IAP and collaborate with the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) and the German Weather Service (DWD) on refactoring the ICON upper atmosphere codes.

Outside of work, I enjoy language learning (Dutch, German, and Italian), playing guitar, calisthenics, cooking, and hiking. I also enjoy contributing to open-source projects! For example, I am currently working on documentation/tutorials for Ferrite.jl (a finite element toolbox) and SpeedyWeather.jl (an atmospheric modelling framework).