Katherine Osterried
Scientific Programmer at Center for Climate Systems Modeling
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolKatherine Osterried is a Scientific Programmer with a PhD in Physical Oceanography and a decade of experience turning complex geophysical problems into reliable numerical tools and clear visualizations. Based in Zurich, she has bridged pure and applied research—developing a large-scale wave energy farm assessment tool, validating models against experiments, and deploying software through full release cycles while collaborating with academic and industry partners. Her background includes hands-on oceanographic fieldwork and 3-D numerical modeling of wind-forced internal waves, giving her a rare combination of observational, theoretical, and software development skills. Colleagues know her for communicating technical results to diverse audiences and for inventing novel visualization and statistical validation methods that make model output actionable.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics with Physics minor, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics with Physics minor at Southwestern UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical Oceanography, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical Oceanography at Massachusetts Institute of Technology/ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Github Skills (12)
jupyter-notebook10
version-control9
runtime-environment7
git7
rewriting4
simulations3
data-model3
checker3
pool3
sanity2
climate-model2
spack1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
C2SM/git-course
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:6 reviews, 58 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 6 months
jupyter-notebookversion-controlgit-gui
kosterried/git-course
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:38 pushes in 5 months
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