Christian Jacobs

Christian Jacobs is an accomplished Lead Software Engineer in Data Science & Machine Learning at Altair, specializing in advanced statistical algorithms for pharmaceutical applications. With a robust background in data science, Christian previously held roles as Principal Data Scientist at Dstl, focusing on maritime data analysis and software development, and Senior Data Scientist at The Open University, teaching algorithms and data structures. Earlier experience includes a Research Fellow position at the University of Southampton, where Christian worked on computational aerodynamics and open-source software development, as well as a Research Associate and Computational Scientist role at Imperial College London, concentrating on data management and numerical modeling. Christian holds a PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics from Imperial College London, an MSc in Interdisciplinary Mathematics from the University of Warwick, and a BSc (Hons) in Computational Mathematics from the University of Reading.