Dr. Aurelien Costes

Research Scientist | Member of the Fire Modeling Group

Dr. Aurélien Costes is a research scientist working at San José State University as part of the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center. He holds an M.S. in Computational Fluid Mechanics from the ENSEEIHT engineering school (France) and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics from Paul Sabatier University (France). His main research interests are in coupled atmosphere-fire modeling, scientific tool development, and high performance computing. He is the main developer of the Blaze fire model, which forms the coupled atmosphere-fire model MésoNH-Blaze. He is currently working to improve the physical processes represented in the coupled model WRF-SFIRE and to improve model performance.