Jenny Fisher
Associate Dean Learning & Teaching
Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolJenny Fisher is a scientist-educator and academic leader with 12 years of experience bridging atmospheric chemistry research, inclusive curriculum design, and higher education leadership. Her research combines global computational models with diverse observational datasets to trace sources, chemistry and transport of anthropogenic air pollution, and she has contributed code improvements to the widely used GEOS-Chem modelling codebase. As a 2023–24 Australian Science Policy Fellow she translated science into policy on critical technologies and industrial decarbonisation, complementing a track record of roles from postdoc at Harvard to Associate Dean (EDI) and now Associate Dean Learning & Teaching. Known for integrating computing skills into undergraduate science education, she brings a rare mix of technical modelling expertise, policy experience, and practical DEI stewardship to institutional change.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard UniversityCalifornia Institute of TechnologyLycée Les Eaux ClairesUniversity College London
Github Skills (3)
atmospheric-modelling10
scientific-computing10
fortran10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
geoschem/geos-chem
Jun 2014 - Jan 2023
GEOS-Chem "Science Codebase" repository. Contains GEOS-Chem science routines, run directory generation scripts, and interface code. This repository is used as a submodule within the GCClassic and GCHP wrappers, as well as in other modeling contexts (external ESMs).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 100 comments in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jenny primarily contributed to the modification and improvement of the GEOS-Chem science codebase, focusing on the tagged CO module. Their contributions involved bug fixes, such as restoring a missing variable, and feature additions, including updating the treatment of monoterpene emissions and adding diurnal cycle for OH. The user also refactored code, such as moving tagged CO initialization logic, to improve the codebase flexibility and performance.
awscodebasecontextsscienceatmospheric-modelling
jennyfisher/jennyfisher.github.io
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:210 commits, 9 PRs, 250 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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