Vincent Puech

Vincent is a Senior Groundwater Modeller with over ten years of experience in hydro­ge­ol­ogy and modelling. During this time, he has developed various groundwater numerical models and MS Excel-based tools to provide qualitative and quan­ti­ta­tive tools to assist with groundwater resource management.

Vincent is skilled in both the finite difference and finite element industry standards (resp. MODFLOW and FEFLOW) and is a proficient user of the parameters estimation software (PEST), which assists in model para­metri­sa­tion (Pilot Points), regu­lar­i­sa­tion and calibration (Tikhonov and truncated Singular Value Decom­po­si­tion), parameter sensitivity analysis and model uncertainty analysis (Null Space Monte Carlo method). He is also highly capable in coding language VBA and Python and has used them to develop ad hoc tools to assist specific modeli­sa­tion require­ments.

What excites you about your role? Contributing to understand the behaviour of complex groundwater systems through the models I develop.

Why did you get into your field? It is the practice of speleology in southern France that triggered my curiosity for groundwater.

You can talk to me for hours about... Speleology!