About

I’m Michał Brennek (also spelled Michal Brennek without the Polish diacritic) – researcher at the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, where I work on atmospheric physics, tropical meteorology, and the kind of problems that require both a good dataset and a strong coffee.

Before I ended up staring at vorticity equations for a living, I spent years in IT and project management - quality assurance, test automation, business analysis, agile everything. I still carry the scars. Somewhere along the way I picked up Prince2, AgilePM, and a Red Hat certification, which means I can manage a Gantt chart and debug a kernel panic, though I prefer the latter.

I’m a member of the American Geophysical Union, European Geosciences Union, American Meteorological Society, and the Royal Meteorological Society. I’ve done field work on research vessels in the Atlantic, contributed to the EUREC4A campaign, and I study extreme weather in the Malay Archipelago - tropical waves, cyclogenesis, and the kind of convective systems that make you glad you’re looking at them from a screen and not a deck.

Speaking of decks - I’m also a Royal Yachting Association Yachtmaster Instructor. The ocean teaches you things about uncertainty that no textbook can.

This blog is where all of that collides - weather, computing, history of science, and the occasional rant about filament adhesion. If you’re here, you probably found one of my posts about Richardson, ENIAC, or why your 3D printer hates you. Welcome.

You can also find me on LinkedIn or at brennek.com.