Björn Lütjens
Research Scientist at IBM
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBjörn Lütjens is a research scientist with nine years of experience applying machine learning to accelerate and make climate and weather models more trustworthy, currently working on emulating atmospheric dynamics at IBM Research. He earned his PhD at MIT, where he developed physics-informed neural operators and the first physically-consistent GANs for satellite imagery, and led teams creating graph neural networks for subseasonal forecasting and physics-informed surrogates for coastal flooding. Björn co-founded the ForestBench Consortium to benchmark ML for forest carbon estimation and has advised NASA’s Frontier Development Lab on physics-informed neural networks. His work blends rigorous theory, patent-pending multi-scale PDE solvers, and practical climate risk communication—demonstrating a rare mix of deep technical innovation and applied impact. Based in New York, he maintains an active research portfolio and public project pages documenting tools and publications that bridge ML and Earth system science.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering Science - Robotics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering Science - Robotics at Technical University of MunichExchange, Japanese Language and Business, Exchange, Japanese Language and Business at Keio UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace Engineering with Major/Minor in Machine Learning and Earth System Modeling, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace Engineering with Major/Minor in Machine Learning and Earth System Modeling at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyScholarship and Entrepreneurial Qualification Program, Scholarship and Entrepreneurial Qualification Program at Manage and More by UnternehmerTUMExchange, Statistics and Systems Engineering, Exchange, Statistics and Systems Engineering at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa MariaBachelor of Engineering - BE (incomplete), Business Administration and Engineering - Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE (incomplete), Business Administration and Engineering - Electrical Engineering at Cooperative State University Ravensburg
German, English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (71)
datasets10
forestry10
biodiversity10
climate-change10
pde9
fourier-transform9
multiclass-classification9
camera9
truth9
python9
deep-learning9
operator9
camera-calibration9
machine-learning9
paddle9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
blutjens/awesome-earth-system-ml
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
blutjens/awesome-MIT-ai-for-climate-change
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
🌍 A curated list of MIT profs that tackle climate change with machine learning for applying students, undergraduates, or others
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 29 pushes in 9 months
climatetacklemachine-learningmitclimate-change
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