Jordi Vila-Pérez

Dr. Jordi Vila-Pérez is a project scientist in the High Altitude Observatory at NCAR, specializing in the development of advanced numerical methods to study the ionosphere and thermosphere. His research spans a wide range of computational techniques, from traditional discretization methods –such as finite volume and finite difference schemes, as well as high-order continuous and discontinuous Galerkin methods– to modern machine learning approaches. He applies these methodologies to investigate the dynamics of the upper atmosphere and to analyze compressible aerodynamics.

Before joining NCAR, Dr. Vila-Pérez was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, where he worked on developing GPU-based high-fidelity methods and applying them to space weather modeling. Previously, he earned his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona, in 2021, focusing on low and high-order hybridized methods for compressible flows. He also holds a Bachelor’s double degree in Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering, as well as a Master's in Applied Mathematics from the same university, completed in 2016 and 2017, respectively.