Thomas is a researcher working at the intersection of applied mathematics and glaciology.
He obtained his master’s degree in engineering physics from ULiège (Belgium) in 2020, and completed his PhD in 2025 through a joint project between the Computational & Stochastic Modeling research unit at ULiège and the Laboratoire de Glaciologie at ULB, still in Belgium. His doctoral research focused on the influence of subglacial conditions on the dynamics of marine ice sheets, combining analytical and numerical approaches. He was –and remains– particularly interested in the modeling of basal friction and subglacial hydrology in Antarctica.
Thomas has started a post-doctoral position with the ICE group at UNIL as part of the SNF-funded PINNACLE project, in collaboration with UZH. His primary goal in this project is to extend the Instructed Glacier Model to include ice shelves and marine ice sheets. This will provide the glaciology community with an easy-to-use, open-source, and computationally efficient ice-sheet model. Ultimately, the project aims to reduce uncertainties in projections of the contributions of Antarctica and Greenland to future sea-level rise. To achieve this, he leverages physics-informed neural networks and next-generation computing architectures, GPUs.
