Luan Da Fonseca Santos
Postdoctoral Research Associate
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolLuan Da Fonseca Santos is a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University working with NOAA-GFDL’s FV3 team to improve numerical algorithms for weather and climate models. With a 2024 PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of São Paulo and eight years of experience, he specializes in finite-volume/difference methods, grid generation, and transport schemes for geophysical fluid dynamics. His work has produced peer-reviewed publications and practical model enhancements—such as low-overhead transport schemes and topography-based refined grids for NCAR MPAS—demonstrating a strong balance of theory and implementable code. He has taught numerical analysis and computational methods at USP and frequently presents at international conferences, reflecting both pedagogy and outreach skills. Based in New Jersey, he combines rigorous applied-math foundations with hands-on software development for operational modeling, and he’s known for delivering algorithmic improvements that minimize computational cost while boosting fidelity.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Mathematics at Instituto de Matemática e Estatística - Universidade de São Paulo (IME-USP)
Github Skills (14)
modeling-tool9
mechanics8
agent-based-modeling8
hydrodynamics8
fluid8
dynamics8
modeling8
grid7
fluid-dynamics6
hierarchical4
wolfram-language3
sphere3
aerodynamics2
computational-fluid-dynamics2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
luanfs/py-cubed-sphere
Feb 2022 - Jul 2023
Cubed-sphere grid tools for numerical geophysical fluid dynamics.
Contributions:2 PRs, 87 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
fluidaerodynamicshierarchicallinearfluid-dynamics
luanfs/iModel
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:377 pushes in 5 months
fluidfluid-dynamicsdynamicsmodellinggeophysical-fluid-dynamics
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