Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering co-advised by Prof. Greg Rieker, B.E. Mechanical Engineering Cooper Union. Alex models the impact of energy infrastructure on the atmospheric boundary layer. He has evaluated the ability of WRF-LES to accurately simulation emissions from natural gas infrastructure (Rybchuk et al. 2021a), and he has used these simulations to characterize monitoring systems. He has also used WRF to build wind resource assessment databases for offshore wind (Rybchuk et al. 2021b) and to improve wind farm parameterizations’ interaction with planetary boundary layer schemes (Rybchuk et al. 2022). Outside of work, you can find Alex slacklining or rojacck climbing in Boulder Canyon. Dr. Rybchuk is now a postdoctoral researcher at NREL‘s Flatirons Campus.