Summary
Valère Lambert is a scientist-software engineer with 11 years bridging computational physics, high-performance computing, and applied seismology, now working on Core Motion Sensing and Connectivity at Apple in San Francisco. He leads research at UC Santa Cruz as a principal investigator on reproducible, community-driven simulations of earthquake sequences (SEAS), combining multi-scale, multi-physics modeling with software verification. His background includes doctoral work at Caltech developing HPC methods for seismic hazard modeling, hands-on detector and particle-ID software at CERN and CMS, and applied seismology consulting at AECOM—evidence of his ability to move ideas from research code to production-grade systems. Valère is notable for blending deep physics intuition with engineering rigor to build robust, reproducible numerical tools for complex, real-world hazards.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. with Honors, Physics, B.Sc. with Honors, Physics at California Institute of Technology
English, French