Leif Denby
Senior Research Scientist at University of Leeds
Bradford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLeif Denby is a Senior Research Scientist and computational physicist with 13 years’ experience bridging high-performance computing and atmospheric science to improve weather and climate modeling. He combines a PhD in Atmospheric Physics with hands-on expertise in scalable CFD, parallel HPC, and numerical methods, currently splitting his time between the Danish Meteorological Institute and the University of Leeds. As a founder and lead programmer of Agora he has built full-stack, production web platforms (Django, React, AWS, Celery) used by 10,000+ students, and he regularly contributes tooling and research code on GitHub. Leif’s background in experimental software (RFID systems, booking platforms) and early network/IT administration underpins a practical, systems-level approach to research software engineering. He is drawn to projects that tightly couple computational innovation with scientific insight, most recently focusing on better representing convective clouds in models.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics at University of Cambridge
English, Danish, German, Chinese
Stackoverflow
1,438reputation
192kreached
14answers
2questions
numpy
top-5%
python
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
triplet10
self-organizing-map10
tagging10
orm10
selectize10
keyboard-navigation10
approximate10
python10
office36510
locality-sensitive-hashing10
django10
datetimepicker10
powerbi10
microsoft10
datetime10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
leifdenby/uclales-utils
Jul 2016 - Aug 2022
Python utilities for UCLALES
Contributions:6 releases, 19 PRs, 49 pushes in 6 years 2 months
python-utilitiespythonnumba
leifdenby/uclales
Oct 2015 - Mar 2023
Large eddy simulation code for atmospheric flow
Contributions:10 PRs, 53 pushes, 20 branches in 7 years 5 months
atmosphericpythoneddysimulationlarge-eddy-simulation
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