John Ortiz
Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Ortiz is a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory with eight years of experience bridging academic research and national-lab applications in subsurface fluid dynamics and geohazards. He earned a PhD from Johns Hopkins after a trajectory through New Mexico Tech and Dartmouth, and has progressed at LANL from post-master’s researcher to Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow and now Scientist. His work blends numerical modeling (finite-difference and MATLAB), field geophysics, and data-driven analysis to probe fluid–fault interactions and induced seismic risk—skills honed through both field deployments and high-performance computational projects. Based in Los Alamos, he pairs deep domain expertise in hydrogeology with practical experience implementing transient 2D/3D models, and he’s known for developing new modeling approaches that exposed key controls on deep pressure propagation. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to translate complex simulation results into operational risk insights for subsurface engineering decisions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Hydrology and Petroleum Geofluids, Master of Science (M.S.) Hydrology and Petroleum Geofluids at New Mexico Institute of Mining and TechnologyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Earth Sciences with Honors, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Earth Sciences with Honors at Dartmouth CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
Spanish
Github Skills (13)
mass10
modeling-tool10
heat10
modelica9
electrical-engineering9
hydrodynamics9
snl-applications9
chemical-engineering9
simulation-modeling9
earth-science9
computational-fluid-dynamics9
scientific-computing8
python8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
johnportiz14/cv
Sep 2018 - Jun 2026
Contributions:141 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
johnportiz14/pyDiffusionFDM
Jul 2023 - Jun 2025
Contributions:5 releases, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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