Nicholas Treleaven is a combustion expert and software-capable engineer with 20 years’ experience across aerospace and automotive sectors, currently based in Paris and elected to Safran’s company-wide expert network. He holds a PhD completed with Rolls-Royce and combines deep experimental fluid mechanics and multiphase spray expertise with advanced CFD, reduced-order models, and thermo‑/aero‑acoustics for hydrogen and SAF engine development. Nicholas pairs high-performance computing and AI-driven combustion modeling— including tabulated and ML approaches for hydrogen—with hands-on knowledge of digital twins and advanced manufacturing techniques such as laser welding and 3D printing. He contributes actively to open-source tooling and language projects (notably improvements to the D and V language toolchains and the Geany plugin ecosystem), reflecting strong low-level programming skills in D, C and C++. A seasoned project lead, he has managed multinational consortia and multi‑million euro budgets while advising academia as a TU Delft lecturer and Loughborough advisory board member. Colleagues know him for bridging rigorous research, production software, and pragmatic engineering solutions to decarbonise propulsion.
20 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Turbulence, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Turbulence at ENSIP
Master's Degree Gas Turbine Aerodynamics, Master's Degree Gas Turbine Aerodynamics at University of Cambridge
melbourne high school
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Turbulence, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Turbulence at Centrale Lille
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Turbulence, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Turbulence at ISAE - ENSMA
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Acoustic Response of Swirl Sprays for the Prediction of Combustion Instabilities in Gas Turbines, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Acoustic Response of Swirl Sprays for the Prediction of Combustion Instabilities in Gas Turbines at Loughborough University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) and Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering Fluid Mechanics Applied Mathematics and Materials Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) and Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering Fluid Mechanics Applied Mathematics and Materials Science at Monash University
Pages for the dlang.org website, home of the D Programming Language
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:191 reviews, 420 commits, 375 PRs in 10 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the documentation and build process of the D programming language's website. Their work included refining the "Jump to" links for improved navigation within the documentation, fixing line number issues in the example run buttons, and extracting runnable examples for testing. The user also automated tests for examples, updated makefiles, and moved files to better organize the documentation.
Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Language Contributor
Contributions:97 reviews, 258 commits, 337 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the core functionality and optimization of the V programming language itself, focusing on improving the string and array handling capabilities, parsing, and code generation. The contributions included fixing bugs, improving the performance of key string methods such as replace and to optimize the code by employing memory manipulation functions like `memcpy`. Furthermore, the user implemented labelled break and continue statements and implemented the type of map features.
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Nicholas Treleaven - Combustion Expert at Loughborough University