James Brennan

Research Scientist

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Ealing, England, United Kingdom

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About me
Director of Climate Risk Modelling and R&D at Climate X
Education
- Cardinal Wiseman High School
  2005 - 2011
  - A Level: A* Geography. A* English Literature. A Maths (4 As at AS Level) - GCSE: 10A* to A
- UCL
  2015 - 2020
  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Remote Sensing
  Development of multi-decadal datasets of fire severity from satellite data.
- UCL
  2011 - 2014
  Bachelor of Science (BSc) Geography
  Activities and Societies: Vice President of UCL World Music Society, Academic Events Organiser of the UCL Geography Society, Second Year Representative for Staff-Student Consultative Committee, UCL Model United Nations Main areas of interest have been in remote sensing, data acquisition and analysis, programming for scientific applications, GIS, hydrology, climatology and environmental modelling. My dissertation focused on the application of a new algorithm for the retrieval of tree canopy properties from satellite data.
- University of Toronto
  2013 - 2013
  Bachelor of Science (BSc) Geography
  International Exchange Programme
Experience
- UCL
  Aug 2014 - Jun 2020
  Research Scientist
  ● Cleaning, organising and producing terabyte-petabyte data sets.● Development, testing and evaluation of scientific models and algorithms processed onlarge datasets and published in scientific journals.● Batch processing and automation of >80k jobs on a Linux computer cluster.● 10-min—1hr presentations given to international conferences and general scienceaudiences.● Teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses.● Model evaluation and uncertainty quantification for the European Space Agency ClimateChange Initiative. Show less
- Arca Blanca
  Jun 2020 - Sept 2021
  Data Scientist
- Climate X
  Sept 2021 - now
  - Director of Climate Risk Modelling and R&D
    Jul 2023 - now
  - Remote Sensing & Data Science Lead
    Nov 2022 - Nov 2023
  - Remote Sensing and Big Data Scientist
    Sept 2021 - Nov 2022
Licenses & Certifications
- DevOps for Data Scientists
  LinkedIn
  Apr 2020
  View certificate
- Julia for Data Scientists First Look
  LinkedIn
  Apr 2020
  View certificate
- Linux: Bash Shell and Scripts
  LinkedIn
  Apr 2020
  View certificate
- Introduction to Auditing and Evaluating Behaviour Change
  IEMA - Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment
  Mar 2013