Current Post: SwissEx Science Officer

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Swiss Experiment at SLF

The Swiss Experiment (SwissEx) is an initiative of the Competence Centre Environment and sustainability (CCES), headed by WSL/SLF. It has been created to provide a platform for large scale sensor network deployment and information retrieval and exploitation.

My major role at SLF is to develop methods to combine external weather forecasts with internal data for a variety of customers.

• Using COSMO weather forecast data for 36 hr warning
• Comparing high resolution observations with model data

Research interests

• Mountain winds
• Snow drift
• Rugged instrumentation
• Ad-hoc sensor networks
• Research commercialisation
• Renewable energy economics
• Wind tunnel techniques and methods
  

Previous Posts:

• Technical Sales Manager, Natural Power Consultants, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Postdoctoral Fellow, UNBC, Prince George, BC, Canada
• Wind Tunnel Doctoral Student, SLF, Davos, Switzerland
• Gas Turbine Development Engineer, Alstom Power, Baden, Switzerland
  

Qualifications:

• Dr. Sciences, Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Swiss Federal School of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), 2007
• M. Engineering, University of Durham, England (2001)