Pablo Higuera
Associate Director - CAT Model Dev
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPablo Higuera is an Associate Director in catastrophe model development at RMS with 11 years of experience applying coastal engineering and CFD to storm surge, tsunami and coastal inundation modelling. He holds a PhD in Coastal Engineering and has bridged academia and industry as a lecturer and senior research fellow, contributing to national-scale flood modelling and supervising students while winning a Students’ Choice teaching award. Pablo is the lead developer of the open-source CFD model olaFlow—cited in over 120 publications—which underscores his commitment to reproducible research and tools that scale from lab to operational catastrophe models. He combines numerical model development, geospatial analysis and machine learning to reduce computational cost and increase fidelity in coupled coastal risk models, currently focused on the North Atlantic hurricane and Australia cyclone surge modules. Based in London, he brings a rare mix of deep research credentials and production-facing modelling experience that accelerates translation of novel methods into enterprise risk products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Coastal Engineering, Doctorado en Ciencias y Tecnologías para la Gestión de la Costa, PhD Coastal Engineering, Doctorado en Ciencias y Tecnologías para la Gestión de la Costa at Universidad de CantabriaCivil Engineering, Exchange, Civil Engineering, Exchange at Cornell University
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
solver9
openfoam9
toolbox8
hydrodynamics7
google-inbox6
discourse6
gmail6
gmail-api6
thunderbird6
google-keep5
chrome-extension5
firefox-addon5
wave5
inbox5
simulation4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
phicau/olaFlow
Feb 2016 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 release, 82 commits, 41 pushes in 6 years 6 months
phicau/IHFOAM
Jul 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 12 pushes, 10 comments in 1 year 7 months
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