Luke Western
Research Scientisst at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLuke Western is a research scientist with eight years' experience quantifying emissions of climate-warming and ozone-depleting gases, now based at MIT after roles at University of Bristol and NOAA. He combines statistical methods and physical atmospheric models to translate global-to-local emission signals into policy-relevant insights, engaging regularly with policymakers, industry, and academics. His background in volcanic ash remote sensing (PhD) gives him a strong foundation in uncertainty quantification and remote retrieval techniques that he applies to tracer gases and industrial emissions. Multilingual training from studies in Germany and an Erasmus year in Bayreuth support international collaboration across treaty and industry stakeholders.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus year, Physics, Erasmus year, Physics at University of BayreuthMPhys , Physics with European studies with proficiency in German, MPhys , Physics with European studies with proficiency in German at University of ExeterDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Quantifying and interpreting uncertainty in volcanic ash remote sensing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Quantifying and interpreting uncertainty in volcanic ash remote sensing at University of Bristol
English, German
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Github Skills (24)
mercury10
routines9
aws8
fortran8
atmospheric-modelling8
cloud-computing7
geos-chem7
geos7
science7
modeling7
scientific-computing6
excel6
vba6
codebase5
inversion5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lukewestern/malta
Jun 2023 - Dec 2024
A 2D model of atmospheric transport
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 5 months
lukewestern/py12box_laube
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 8 pushes, 3 tags in 3 months
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