Senior Analyst
Forecast, Production, Data Archives and Dissemination Services
Summary:
Sébastien joined ECMWF in October 2015 to work in the Data Archives and Dissemination Services Team (previously known as the Products Team) within the Forecast Department.
Main duties:
- Leading the Migration to GRIB2 project
- Chair of the WMO Task Team on NWP metadata (TT-NWPMD)
- member of the WMO Expert Team on Data formats (ET-Data)
- ECMWF representative at WMO Task Team on Table Driven Code Formats (TT-TDCF) and Task Team on CF/netCDF format (TT-CFnetCDF)
- member of the ECMWF Data Governance Board
- maintenance/administration/data design for the meteorological archive MARS
Professional interests:
- Data design and curation
- Meteorological format (GRIB, netCDF, etc.)
- Dataset metadata consolidation
- Archive and storage management and administration
Career background:
Sébastien Villaume completed his PhD in October 2005 on “Electronic Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of Small Transition Metal Complexes Studied via Coupled Cluster calculations and Wave packet Propagation” at the University Of Strasbourg, France. He then became a Lecturer at the University of Strasbourg teaching Quantum Chemistry, Spectroscopies and programming. In 2006, he moved to Sweden to complete two postdoctoral research projects focusing on excited state aromaticity, molecular electronics and Theoretical spectroscopy. In 2011, he joined the Swedish Met service (SMHI) to work as a scientific programmer and administrator of the local MARS archive. Since October 2015, Sebastien is working at ECMWF.
Sébastien Villaume is the author of 20 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. His main contributions are concerned with spectroscopies and photo-induced processes in transition metal complexes, assessment of a new index to measure aromaticity, notably used for excited state aromaticity, and the development of a novel formulation of molecular response theory with applications in molecular electronics.
- 2024
- Francesca Di Giuseppe, Claudia Vitolo, Christopher Barnard, Giorgio Libertá, Pedro Maciel, Jesus San-Miguel-Ayanz, Sebastien Villaume, Fredrik Wetterhall (January 2024) Global seasonal prediction of fire danger, Scientific Data. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-02948-3
- Cornel Soci, Hans Hersbach, Adrian Simmons, Paul Poli, William Bell, Paul Berrisford, András Horányi, Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater, Julien Nicolas, Raluca Radu, Dinand Schepers, Sebastien Villaume, Leopold Haimberger, Jack Woollen, Carlo Buontempo, Jean‐Noël Thépaut (October 2024) The ERA5 global reanalysis from 1940 to 2022, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.4803
- 2023
- (May 2023) Migration from GRIB1 to GRIB2: preparing ECMWF model output for the future, ECMWF Newsletter n. 175, pp. 32-37. DOI: 10.21957/p35h8sv66c
- 2021
- William Bell, Hans Hersbach, Adrian Simmons, Paul Berrisford, Per Dahlgren, András Horányi, Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater, Julien Nicolas, Raluca Radu, Dinand Schepers, Cornel Soci, Sebastien Villaume, Jean‐Raymond Bidlot, Leo Haimberger, Jack Woollen, Carlo Buontempo, Jean‐Noël Thépaut (October 2021) The ERA5 global reanalysis: Preliminary extension to 1950, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.4174
- 2020
- Hans Hersbach, Bill Bell, Paul Berrisford, Shoji Hirahara, András Horányi, Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater, Julien Nicolas, Carole Peubey, Raluca Radu, Dinand Schepers, Adrian Simmons, Cornel Soci, Saleh Abdalla, Xavier Abellan Ecija, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Peter Bechtold, Gionata Biavati, Jean Bidlot, Massimo Bonavita, Giovanna De Chiara, Per Dahlgren, Dick Dee, Michail Diamantakis, Rossana Dragani, Johannes Flemming, Richard Forbes, Manuel Fuentes, Alan Geer, Leopold Haimberger, Sean Healy, Robin Hogan, Elías Hólm, Marta Janiskova, Sarah Keeley, Patrick Laloyaux, Philippe Lopez, Cristina Lupu, Gabor Radnoti, Patricia de Rosnay, Iryna Rozum, Freja Vamborg, sebastien villaume, Jean-Noel THEPAUT (July 2020) The ERA5 global reanalysis, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3803
- 2019
- A. S. P. Gomes, T. Saue, L. Visscher, H. J. Aa. Jensen, R. Bast, I. A. Aucar, V. Bakken, K. G. Dyall, S. Dubillard, U. Ekström, E. Eliav, T. Enevoldsen, E. Faßhauer, T. Fleig, O. Fossgaard, L. Halbert, E. D. Hedegård, T. Helgaker, B. Helmich-Paris, J. Henriksson, M. Iliaš, Ch. R. Jacob, S. Knecht, S. Komorovský, O. Kullie, J. K. Lærdahl, C. V. Larsen, Y. S. Lee, H. S. Nataraj, M. K. Nayak, P. Norman, G. Olejniczak, J. Olsen, J. M. H. Olsen, Y. C. Park, J. K. Pedersen, M. Pernpointner, R. Di Remigio, K. Ruud, P. Sałek, B. Schimmelpfennig, B. Senjean, A. Shee, J. Sikkema, A. J. Thorvaldsen, J. Thyssen, J. van Stralen, M. L. Vidal, S. Villaume, O. Visser, T. Winther (December 2019) DIRAC19, Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.3572669
- 2018
- T. Saue, L. Visscher, H. J. Aa. Jensen, R. Bast, V. Bakken, K. G. Dyall, S. Dubillard, U. Ekström, E. Eliav, T. Enevoldsen, E. Faßhauer, T. Fleig, O. Fossgaard, A. S. P. Gomes, E. D. Hedegård, T. Helgaker, J. Henriksson, M. Iliaš, Ch. R. Jacob, S. Knecht, S. Komorovský, O. Kullie, J. K. Lærdahl, C. V. Larsen, Y. S. Lee, H. S. Nataraj, M. K. Nayak, P. Norman, G. Olejniczak, J. Olsen, J. M. H. Olsen, Y. C. Park, J. K. Pedersen, M. Pernpointner, R. Di Remigio, K. Ruud, P. Sałek, B. Schimmelpfennig, A. Shee, J. Sikkema, A. J. Thorvaldsen, J. Thyssen, J. van Stralen, S. Villaume, O. Visser, T. Winther, S. Yamamoto (December 2018) DIRAC18, Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.2253986
- 2015
- Christian Dahlstrand, Burkhard O. Jahn, Anton Grigoriev, Sébastien Villaume, Rajeev Ahuja, Henrik Ottosson (November 2015) Polyfulvenes: Polymers with “Handles” That Enable Extensive Electronic Structure Tuning, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b08042
- (May 2015) DIRAC15. DIRAC, a relativistic ab initio electronic structure program, Release DIRAC15 (2015). DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11254.40009
- 2014
- (May 2014) DIRAC14. DIRAC, a relativistic ab initio electronic structure program, Release DIRAC14 (2014). DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.17595.00801
- 2012
- (May 2012) DIRAC12. DIRAC, a relativistic ab initio electronic structure program, Release DIRAC12 (2012). DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.27661.33765
- 2011
- Vahlberg C, Linares M, Villaume S, Norman P, Uvdal K (May 2011) Noradrenaline and a Thiol Analogue on Gold Surfaces: An Infrared Reflection-Absorption Spectroscopy, X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, and Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy Study, Journal of Physical Chemistry C n. 1, pp. 165-175. DOI: 10.1021/jp105696j
- (May 2011) DIRAC11. DIRAC, a relativistic ab initio electronic structure program, Release DIRAC11 (2011).. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.19352.60163
- 2010
- Villaume S, Saue T, Norman P (May 2010) Linear complex polarization propagator in a four-component Kohn-Sham framework, Journal of Chemical Physics n. 6. DOI: 10.1063/1.3461163
- VILLAUME S, EKSTROM U, OTTOSSON H, NORMAN P (May 2010) Near sulfur L-edge X-ray absorption spectra of methanethiol in isolation and adsorbed on a Au(111) surface: a theoretical study using the four-component static exchange approximation, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics n. 21, pp. 5596-5604. DOI: 10.1039/b926109e
- VILLAUME S, NORMAN P (May 2010) On Circular Dichroism and the Separation Between Chromophore and Chiral Center: The Near Carbon K-Edge X-ray Absorption and Circular Dichroism Spectra of Noradrenaline and L-DOPA, Chirality n. 1E, pp. E13-E19. DOI: 10.1002/chir.20763
- 2009
- VILLAUME S, OTTOSSON H (May 2009) Aromaticity Changes along the Lowest-Triplet-State Path for C=C Bond Rotation of Annulenyl-Substituted Olefins Probed by the Electron Localization Function, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A n. 44, pp. 12304-12310. DOI: 10.1021/jp904335j
- Villaume Sebastien, Ottosson Henrik (May 2009) Aromaticity changes along the lowest-triplet-state path for C=C bond rotation of annulenyl-substituted olefins probed by the electron localization function., J Phys Chem A n. 44, pp. 12304-10.
- 2008
- COSTA PJ, CALHORDA MJ, VILLAUME S, et al. (May 2008) Photoinduced bond cleavage in CH3ReO3: excited state dynamics, NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY n. 11, pp. 1904-1909. DOI: 10.1039/b800585k
- VILLAUME S, FOGARTY HA, OTTOSSON H (May 2008) Triplet-state aromaticity of 4n pi-electron monocycles: Analysis of bifurcation in the pi contribution to the electron localization function, CHEMPHYSCHEM n. 2, pp. 257-264. DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200700540
- 2007
- AMBROSEK D, VILLAUME S, DANIEL C, et al. (May 2007) Photoactivity and UV absorption spectroscopy of RCo(CO)(4) (R = H, CH3) organometallic complexes, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A n. 22, pp. 4737-4742. DOI: 10.1021/jp0704259
- VILLAUME S, STRICH A, PERERA SA, et al. (May 2007) Structure, spectra, and rearrangement mechanism of PH2F3: Revisiting a classic problem in structural inorganic chemistry, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A n. 11, pp. 2220-2228. DOI: 10.1021/jp065362t
- VILLAUME S, STRICH A, DANIEL C, et al. (May 2007) A coupled cluster study of the electronic spectroscopy and photochemistry of Cr(CO)(6), PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS n. 46, pp. 6115-6122. DOI: 10.1039/b709050a
- Villaume Sebastien, Strich Alain, Ndoye Cherif A, Daniel Chantal, Perera S Ajith, Bartlett Rodney J (May 2007) Theoretical study of the electronic structure of MCH(2)(+)(M=Fe,Co,Ni)., J Chem Phys n. 15, pp. 154318.
- VILLAUME S, STRICH A, NDOYE CA, et al. (May 2007) Theoretical study of the electronic structure of MCH2+(M=Fe,Co,Ni), JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS n. 15. DOI: 10.1063/1.2710259
- 2006
- AMBROSEK D, VILLAUME S, GONZALEZ L, et al. (May 2006) A multi state-CASPT2 vs. TD-DFT study of the electronic excited states of RCo(CO)(4) (R = H, CH3) organometallic complexes, CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS n. 4-6, pp. 545-549. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2005.10.056
- Bossert J, Villaume S, Strich A, Daniel C, Simos T, Maroulis G (May 2006) From small organometallics to large metal-to-ligand-charge-transfer complexes: Excited states quantum chemistry, Recent Progress in Computational Sciences and Engineering, Vols 7a and 7b, pp. 1289.
- Daniel C., Amor N.B., Villaume S., Maynau D. (May 2006) The electronic spectroscopy of transition metal carbonyls: The tough case of Cr(CO)/sub 6/, Chemical Physics Letters, pp. 378-82. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2006.02.002
- 2005
- VILLAUME S, DANIEL C (May 2005) Emission spectroscopy of metal-to-ligand-charge-transfer states of HRe(CO)(3)(H-dab), model system for alpha-diimine rhenium tricarbonyl complexes, COMPTES RENDUS CHIMIE n. 9-10, pp. 1453-1460. DOI: 10.1016/j.crci.2004.10.037
- VILLAUME S, DANIEL C, STRICH A, et al. (May 2005) Quantum chemical study of the electronic structure of NiCH2+ in its ground state and low-lying electronic excited states, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS n. 4. DOI: 10.1063/1.1834897
