Valcke Sophie
Research Engineer In Climate Modelling
France
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Top SchoolSophie Valcke is a research engineer in climate modelling with 14+ years of experience leading high-performance computing efforts for atmosphere–ocean–ice coupled systems at CERFACS. She heads a team developing the widely used OASIS3-MCT coupler—adopted by about 65 groups worldwide—and has served as CERFACS Principal Investigator on major EU infrastructure projects like IS-ENES and METAFOR. Sophie combines deep technical expertise in HPC and code coupling with program-level leadership, contributing to international advisory boards (EuroHPC RIAG, ESiWACE) and organizing key community workshops. Her background spans doctoral oceanography, Caltech and Sherbrooke engineering, and hands-on deployments with partners such as Environment Canada and NCAR, enabling both software integration and scientific model validation at relatively high resolution. Less obvious is her role as a connector across European and North American coupling-framework communities, translating research needs into robust production tooling used by the global climate modelling community.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.9/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.9/4.0 at Sherbrooke UniversityMaster's Degree in Sciences, Environmental Engineering Technology/Environmental Technology, 3.8/4.0, Master's Degree in Sciences, Environmental Engineering Technology/Environmental Technology, 3.8/4.0 at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CaliforniaDoctorat in Mechanics, Oceanography, Doctorat in Mechanics, Oceanography at U.F.R. de Mécanique, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble
French, English, Italian
Github Skills (12)
oasis9
portal9
derivative8
prepare8
controlled7
esgf7
cvs5
climate-change4
climate-science4
hpc-applications4
atmospheric-modelling3
climate-model3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
COSIMA/oasis3-mct
Jan 2012 - Nov 2020
Derivative version of OASIS3-MCT 2.0 from CERFACS (https://portal.enes.org/oasis).
Contributions:121 commits in 9 years
mctportalderivativeoasisenes
cmip6dr/CMIP6_DataRequest_VariableDefinitions
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 issues in 3 months
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