Dr Eirik Valseth
co-PI
Associate Professor of Scientific Computing, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Life Science, Norway
Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at Simula Research Laboratory Department of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Norway
Dr. Valseth is an Associate Professor of Scientific Computing at the Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU) Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology Management as well as an Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at Simula Research Laboratory Department of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing. Prior to joining NMBU and Simula, Dr Valseth was also a postdoc funded by an individual Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project working with Kent-Andre Mardal and a Research Associate in the Computational Hydraulics Group at The Oden Institute. He attended the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology where he earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering supervised by Albert Romkes. His work is in the development of finite element methods for PDEs where classical finite element methods typically fail to produce acceptable approximations. Currently, his focus is within the context of flood modeling (e.g., hurricane storm surge, riverine flooding, rainfall runoff, and compound floods) as well as modeling for hydropower applications.