Research Software Engineer
Forecast, Development, Data Processing Services
Summary:
Oisín Morrison is a Research Software Engineer for Flood Forecasting in the Data Processing Services Team at ECMWF. He works on the development of software for hydrological applications, such as earthkit-hydro.
Professional interests:
- High-performance computing
- Mathematical modelling
- Simulation science
- Machine learning
Career background:
Education
EPFL - M.Sc. in Computational Science and Engineering. Thesis: "Learning operators through graph neural networks". Awarded IBM Prize in Simulation Science and Master Fellowship of the School of Basic Sciences.
University of Galway - B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics with Theoretical Physics. Thesis: "Construction of an Unstructured Mesh of the Human Head from MRI Data using Gmsh". Awarded Hamilton Prize in Mathematics and Sir Joseph Larmor Prize in Physics.
Professional Experience
- 2026
- Oisín M. Morrison, Corentin Carton de Wiart (March 2026) Introducing earthkit-hydro: an efficient graph-based library for scalable hydrological modelling and analysis. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-11233
- Jasper Denissen, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Gabriele Arduini, Ervin Zsoter, Michel Wortmann, Maliko Tanguy, Estibaliz Gascon, Cinzia Mazzetti, Christel Prudhomme, Oisin Morrison, Peter Dueben, Irina Sandu, Benoit Vanniere, Christoph Rüdiger (March 2026) Rivers in Earth System Modelling: CaMa-Flood supporting land surface model development at the km-scale. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-11312
- Maria Luisa Taccari, Kenza Tazi, Oisín M. Morrison, Andreas Grafberger, Juan Colonese, Corentin Carton de Wiart, Christel Prudhomme, Cinzia Mazzetti, Matthew Chantry, Florian Pappenberger (March 2026) AIFL: A New Global Flood Forecasting Model Trained on CARAVAN. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-13650
- 2024
- Oisín M. Morrison, Federico Pichi, Jan S. Hesthaven (December 2024) GFN: A graph feedforward network for resolution-invariant reduced operator learning in multifidelity applications, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2024.117458
- 2023
- Oisín Morrison, Michel Destrade, Bharat B. Tripathi (July 2023) An atlas of the heterogeneous viscoelastic brain with local power-law attenuation synthesised using Prony-series, Acta Biomaterialia. DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2023.07.040
