Tristan Salles
Academic at University of Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Salles is an academic and computational geoscientist with 12 years of experience building quantitative models that link geodynamics, climate, and life to explain landscape and planetary surface evolution. Based in Sydney, he combines high-performance computing, cellular automata methods, and landscape-evolution modelling developed across roles at CSIRO and the University of Sydney to tackle problems from sedimentary basin filling to channel iron deposit formation. His work bridges theory and applied industry needs—leading multidisciplinary projects, architecting HPC science software, and delivering novel modules for stratigraphic forward models. Trained in computational geology, marine engineering and physical oceanography, he brings a rare blend of mathematical modeling, field-relevant insight and software engineering to planetary surface process questions.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Physical Oceanography, M.Sc., Physical Oceanography at Université Aix-Marseille IIPhD, Computational Geology, PhD, Computational Geology at Université Bordeaux IM.Sc., Marine Engineering, M.Sc., Marine Engineering at Ecole centrale de MarseillePetroleum Sciences & Technics Diploma, Petroleum, Petroleum Sciences & Technics Diploma, Petroleum at ENSPM IFP School
French, English, German
Github Skills (47)
geoscience10
modeling-tool10
python-interface10
wave10
agent-based-modeling10
dynamics10
marine10
renewable-energy10
landscape10
evolution10
geomorphology10
satellite10
mamba10
mls9
altimeter9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
badlands-model/badlands
Feb 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:385 commits, 8 pushes in 6 years 10 months
Geodels/eSCAPE-demo
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:67 commits, 54 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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