Fiona Rust
Scientist at Met Office
Greater Exeter Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFiona Rust is a scientist with a decade of experience applying physics and numerical modelling to operational meteorology at the Met Office. With an MPhys (1st Class) from the University of Bath, she helped develop the new gridded post-processing framework and now focuses on standardising Unified Model outputs to enable advanced post-processing techniques. Her background includes physics-focused internships—modeling bimorph mirrors at Diamond Light Source and relativistic time corrections at the National Physical Laboratory—giving her strong mathematical modelling and MATLAB skills that inform her current work. She also contributes to outreach as a STEM ambassador and has supervised work experience students, showing a commitment to mentoring and knowledge transfer. Based in the Greater Exeter area, she blends research rigor with practical, production-facing development in numerical weather prediction. An often-overlooked strength is her ability to translate complex model outputs into standardized inputs that unlock downstream analytics and forecasting improvements.
10 years of coding experience
Master's Degree, Physics, 1st Class, Master's Degree, Physics, 1st Class at University of BathBicester Community College
Github Skills (39)
meteorology10
visualization10
atmosphere10
python10
grib10
weather10
post-processing10
earth10
noaa10
earth-science10
oceanography10
netcdf10
data-analysis10
atmospheric-modelling9
science9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
fionaRust/improver
May 2017 - Dec 2022
IMPROVER
Contributions:4 PRs, 282 pushes, 81 branches in 5 years 7 months
fionaRust/iris
May 2020 - Dec 2022
A powerful, easy to use, and community-driven Python library for analysing and visualising meteorological and oceanographic data sets.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
community-drivenpython-librarypythondata-sets
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