Institute of Geography

Group Portrait

Charles Pierce

PhD Student

Climatology

Phone: +41 31 684 85 79
E-Mail: charles.pierce@unibe.ch
Office: 508
Postal Address: University of Bern
Institute of Geography
Climatology
Hallerstrasse 12
CH-3012 Bern

Projects

Health and Heat Extremes

Research Activity

Heatwaves
Urban climate

Curriculum Vitae

Professional experience

2022-2014 Project Manager/ Assistance MRO
2020-2021 Verification Engineer Intern

Academic experience

2021-2023 Master Thesis: "Hybrid LES/RANS Simulations of the Exhaust Plume in the Vehicle Wake"
2020 Semester Project: "lnvestigation of numerical methods for solving inverse heat transfer problems"

Education

(current) Master of Science in Climate Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland
2022 Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2019 Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
2015 French Scientific Baccalaureate (summa cum laude), Lycee Fran~ais, Budapest, Hungary

Publications

Plogmann, J., Dimopoulos Eggenschwiler, P., Pierce, C., and Jenny, P., "A Consistent Dual-Mesh Framework for Hybrid LES/RANS Simulations of Vehicle Exhaust Plumes: Implications for Remote Emission Sensing," SAE Technical Paper 2023-24-0105, 2023, doi: 10.4271/2023-24-0105.