Nils Wedi

Dr Nils P. Wedi joined ECMWF in 1995. He received his PhD degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München. His career at ECMWF encapsulates a diverse range of work both technical and scientific. He is the Digital Technology Lead for Destination Earth at ECMWF, a recent initiative which is part of the European Commission’s Green Deal and the Digital Strategy. Destination Earth will create a high precision digital model of the Earth to model, monitor and simulate natural phenomena and related human activities. Prior to this appointment, Nils led ECMWF’s Earth System Modelling section that addresses all aspects of scientific and computational performance relating to ECMWF's forecast model and the ensemble forecasting system. He develops strategies to secure the scalability of the model on future high-performance computing systems and he has been involved in a number of H2020 projects to address the challenge of rising energy costs for computing towards affordable, exascale high performance data assimilation and simulations of weather and climate at km-scale resolutions. He actively collaborates with researchers worldwide, in particular through his role as a co-chair of the WMO working group on numerical experimentation (WGNE), a key link between weather and climate research.