Thibaud Fritz
Aerospace Engineer at Airbus Group Inc.
Versailles, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolThibaud Fritz is an aerospace engineer and PhD researcher with a decade of experience melding plume-scale physics and global climate modeling to quantify aviation’s environmental footprint. Now at Airbus after leading research at MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment, he developed LAE’s aircraft plume and contrail model (APCEMM) and helped couple GEOS-Chem with CESM2 for century-scale chemistry-climate simulations. His work spans detailed turbofan particle formation through contrail persistence to stratosphere-resolving chemistry impacts, and he was a main technical author on a NASA study of supersonic fleet impacts. A practical coder as well as scientist, he contributed Fortran-based integrations of GEOS-Chem into CESM and maintained aviation emission inventory tooling, linking research to operational modeling. Trained in mathematics and engineering in France and at MIT, he brings rare fluency across numerical methods, atmospheric chemistry, and aviation policy-relevant modeling.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
National Security Policy Studies, National Security Policy Studies at Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN)Mathematics - Physics (MP*), Mathematics - Physics (MP*) at Lycée Saint LouisMaster's degree, Master of Science in Engineering, Engineering, Master's degree, Master of Science in Engineering, Engineering at Ecole Centrale ParisDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree in Mathematics, MFA : Mathématiques Fondamentales et Appliquées / Fundamental and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics with honors, Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, MFA : Mathématiques Fondamentales et Appliquées / Fundamental and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics with honors at Université Paris-Sud
French, English, German
Github Skills (3)
fortran10
netcdf10
scientific-computing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
geoschem/geos-chem
Nov 2019 - Oct 2021
GEOS-Chem "Science Codebase" repository. Contains GEOS-Chem science routines, run directory generation scripts, and interface code. This repository is used as a submodule within the GCClassic and GCHP wrappers, as well as in other modeling contexts (external ESMs).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:93 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Thibaud primarily contributed to the integration of GEOS-Chem with the CESM2 climate model. Their work focused on modifying existing Fortran code, specifically related to I/O operations (reading/writing NetCDF files), to accommodate the integration with CESM. The commits show the user's efforts in adapting GEOS-Chem to work within the CESM framework, including modifications to handle external forcing data and adapt the error handling system. They also made changes to ensure the correct functionality of various GEOS-Chem modules within the new environment.
awscodebasecontextsscienceatmospheric-modelling
fritzt/APCEMM
Sep 2018 - Oct 2021
Aircraft Plume Chemistry, Emissions, and Microphysics Model
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 755 commits in 3 years 2 months
aircraftchemistrypythonemissionsplume
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