Leo Saffin
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Leeds
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLeo Saffin is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in the dynamics and model representation of shallow convection, with 11 years of experience across the University of Leeds, Reading and Oxford. His work blends atmospheric modelling (MetUM, OpenIFS) and hands-on code development in Fortran and Python, alongside disciplined version control practices. He has a strong track record in diagnostics and theory—tracing potential vorticity to diagnose large-scale forecast errors—and has explored computational efficiency by applying reduced-precision computing to physics parametrisations. Active on GitHub, he complements academic publications with reproducible code and tooling for model analysis. Based in Leeds, he bridges theoretical insight and practical model implementation, often revealing subtle model-error pathways that impact large-scale dynamics.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Meteorology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Meteorology at University of Reading
Github Skills (26)
meteorology10
atmosphere10
grib10
earth-science10
oceanography10
python9
earth9
netcdf9
science9
data-analysis8
visualization8
atmospheric-modelling8
otter7
data-visualization7
prediction-model6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
leosaffin/huracanpy
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Package for working with various forms of feature tracking data
Contributions:114 pushes, 75 branches in 11 months
EUREC4A-UK/twin-otter
Jan 2020 - May 2021
Tools for working with Twin-Otter data
Contributions:1 release, 24 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 3 months
ottertwin
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