Sébastien Blaise

Short biography

I obtained an MSc degree in Civil Engineering in 2005 from the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium (UCL). I then started a PhD on discontinuous Galerkin ocean modeling at the same university, under the supervision of Professor Eric Deleersnijder and Professor Jean-François Remacle. I was a Research Fellow with the Belgian Fund for Research in Industry and Agriculture (FNRS-FRIA) and a researcher for the SLIM project (Second-generation Louvain-la-Neuve Ice-ocean Model). I earned my Doctorate in November 2009.

Then, I obtained an Advanced Study Program (ASP) Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), where I contributed to the numerical development of a high-order hp-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin geophysical flows model under the supervision of Dr. Amik St-Cyr until August 2011.

After a brief experience as associate professor at the Université Bordeaux 1, France (UB1) where I taught mathematics, I came back to the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in January 2012 to work on atmospheric modeling in close collaboration with the SLIM team members. I am now a senior project engineer at Fugro GeoConsulting Belgium where I work on geotechnical consultancy projects and numerical code development.