Tomás Chor
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Maryland
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTomás Chor is a postdoctoral researcher with a decade of experience applying numerical modeling and fluid dynamics to atmospheric and oceanic problems, currently based at the University of Maryland after completing a PhD at UCLA. He combines rigorous academic authorship—lead author on multiple papers—with hands-on software development, contributing back-end features and documentation to Oceananigans.jl, a high-performance Julia library for ocean simulations. His work bridges theory and practice: from processing tower and micrometeorological data in the Amazon to modeling surface current transport processes that shape material dispersion. An effective communicator and former instructor, he explains complex physical concepts to audiences ranging from large undergraduate classes to the broader public via science communication. Tomás’s background in environmental engineering and early industry experience in atmospheric dispersion and wind-energy analytics give him a pragmatic edge when turning models into actionable insight.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Environmental Engineering, Master's degree, Environmental Engineering at Universidade Federal do ParanáDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at University of California, Los Angeles
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (8)
oceanography10
scientific-computing10
julia10
modeling9
numerical9
numerical-methods9
numeric9
netcdf9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
CliMA/Oceananigans.jl
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
🌊 Julia software for fast, friendly, flexible, ocean-flavored fluid dynamics on CPUs and GPUs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:702 reviews, 758 commits, 265 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tomás primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `Oceananigans.jl` project, a Julia-based software for ocean-flavored fluid dynamics simulations. Their work involved the addition of new features and improvements to the code, including adding kernel computed fields, incorporating time attributes to the NetCDF writer, fixing documentation and examples and ensuring compatibility with other libraries within the Oceananigans ecosystem. Further, the user has modified documentation to fit the more recent developments.
flavoredclimategpuoceanfluid
tomchor/ezkpp
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:38 commits, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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