Chiel Van Heerwaarden
Associate Professor
Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolChiel Van Heerwaarden is an Associate Professor with 16 years of experience advancing understanding of land–atmosphere interactions, boundary-layer turbulence, clouds, and radiation to improve weather and climate models and inform the energy transition. He combines hands-on development of high-performance computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes—having led development of the open-source MicroHH code for massively parallel and GPU-accelerated simulations—with innovative applications of artificial intelligence to accelerate model computations. His work bridges rigorous theory, large-scale simulation, and data analysis of 3D turbulent flows, with a track record of influential publications and contributions to community modeling. Based in Wageningen, he brings both academic distinction (PhD cum laude) and practical impact on topics from renewable energy forecasting to wildfire dynamics, often tackling computational bottlenecks that are overlooked in traditional atmospheric research.
16 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Cum Laude at Wageningen University
English, Dutch, German, French
Stackoverflow
6,136reputation
437kreached
80answers
78questions
numpy
top-5%
python
top-5%
Github Skills (76)
prediction-model10
datasets10
nunjucks10
fluid-dynamics10
netcdf10
planetary10
fluid10
chemical-engineering10
ghost10
dynamics10
dask10
static-site10
simulation10
computational-fluid-dynamics10
hydrodynamics10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Chiil/smallprograms
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:353 pushes, 5 branches in 10 years 3 months
microhh/microhh
Feb 2012 - Oct 2022
Computational fluid dynamics code for simulation of turbulent flows in the atmospheric boundary layer
Contributions:2 releases, 12 reviews, 3524 commits in 10 years 10 months
chemical-engineeringatmosphericboundaryflowsfluid
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