Jean-François Vinuesa
Professional experience
Agent
European Commission - Ispra - Italy
(Fixed-term contract -
November 2005 - October 2008)
- Based in Ispra, Italy. I was a researcher in the Transport and Air Quality Unit of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability. The overall purpose of my job was to assist carrying out atmospheric modelling activity within the Transport and Air Quality Unit with specific focus on modelling atmospheric dispersion of passive and reactive species and specific emphasis on the dispersion of radio-nuclides at short and mesoscale
- Management of tasks: workload, work organisation, schedules and priorities.
- Plan deliverables, review task deliverables, quality control, status reports, reporting, follow up and organization.
- Initiate and maintain partnerships and networks related to atmospheric transport and dispersion.
Research Associate
University of Minnesota - Minneapolis - United States
(Fixed-term contract -
October 2003 - October 2005)
- I was a researcher at the Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory in Minneapolis and worked on several projects:
- • Investigated the effect of sub-grid scale turbulence on atmospheric chemistry, developed sub-grid scale models for Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of atmospheric reacting flows, improved the description of sub-grid scale transport and mixing of reactants.
- • Studied the effect of surface heterogeneity on regional surface fluxes, modeled the properties of the atmospheric boundary layer by using LES and remote-sensing data.
- • Developed and maintained large-eddy simulation research code (implemented a chemical module and sub-grid scale parameterizations).
- • Managed research projects on land surface heterogeneity and non-uniform scalar emission.
Junior Researcher
Utrecht University - Utrecht - Netherlands
(Fixed-term contract -
September 2003 - October 2003)
- I was a researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences – Geochemistry of the Faculty of Geosciences.
- I collaborated in on-going projects dealing with reactive transport modelling, conducted model development, planned a general strategy to parallelize a 1-D sediment reactive transport codes, and analyzed the code structure and the relevant parallel-coding methods (MPI and Open-MP).
Scientific Researcher
TNO-MEP - Apeldoorn - Netherlands
(Fixed-term contract -
January 2001 - June 2003)
- I was a member of the Centre of Expertise Emissions and Assessment (collaboration between the TNO and Wageningen University); co-PI on the project "The development of Local Tropospheric Ozone Models (STOPP/LOTOS-Zoom)". My duties included:
- • Studying the effect of atmospheric turbulence on the transport and the reactivity of atmospheric pollutants (within the framework of the European research training network STOPP - Simulation TOols for Pollutant Prediction).
- • Implementing sub-grid scale chemistry in the large scale model LOTOS.
- • Transferring knowledge from the small scale to large-scale atmospheric chemistry modeling community.
