Tristan Montoya completed his PhD at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies under the supervision of Prof. David W. Zingg. His doctoral work focused on the development and analysis of provably stable discontinuous spectral-element methods (DSEMs) with the summation-by-parts property for systems of conservation laws, particularly on triangular and tetrahedral meshes.

Tristan joined the Numerical Simulation research group at the University of Cologne in January 2024, and is part of the Trixi.jl development team. His current research involves the development of split-form and entropy-stable DSEMs for atmospheric models and their application to global weather and climate prediction. You can keep up-to-date with Tristan’s research and software contributions on his Google Scholar and GitHub pages, as well as on his personal website.