Assistant Professor, TU Eindhoven

Jemima Tabeart is an Assistant Professor in the Computational Science group at TU Eindhoven. Jemima completed her PhD at the University of Reading in 2019 with Professor Sarah Dance, working on correlated observation errors for data assimilation problems. After her PhD she undertook postdoctoral positions at ICERM (Brown University) and the University of Edinburgh and then spent a year as a Hooke Fellow at the University of Oxford, before relocating to The Netherlands in 2023.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of numerical linear algebra and data assimilation for high-dimensional applications. She has collaborated with the Met Office and Cerfacs to develop new mathematical approaches for practical applications in numerical weather prediction and oceanography.

A recent project, together with Prof David Ham and Dr Josh Hope-Collins (Imperial College London) has focused on integrating a variational data assimilation framework within Firedrake (CCP-DCM on Numerical solution of partial differential equations). This integration will allow data assimilation practitioners to test new methodologies on a wide variety of problems with no need for bespoke PDE solvers, and will allow researchers from other fields to test data assimilation approaches on their applications with minimal coding efforts. Jemima will use the funds from the CoSeC fellowship to organise a hackathon in Spring 2026 with the goal of training new users, and augmenting the currently-available suite of test problems.

Interesting fact: Jemima has committed to reducing her air travel (for both personal and professional trips), and blogs about her adventures on public transport.