October 2007 - present:
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
(formerly Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe), Karlsruhe, Germany.
Scientific Collaborator in the
Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Technology.
In charge of the legacy code KANEXT for nuclear reactor design analyses.
Research in parallel domain decomposition methods for the solution of the Boltzmann transport equation (lead to the "Parafish" code).
October 2006 - October 2007:
Jacques-Louis Lions Laboratory
of the
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
Post-doctoral researcher funded by the
French Petroleum Institute.
Parallelization of algebraic domain decomposition methods.
Design of an object-oriented MPI-C++ generic platform.
Advisors: F. Nataf, R. Masson and P. Havé.
September 2004 - August 2006:
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Saclay, France.
Post-doctoral researcher.
Design and object-oriented C++ implementation of a neutron transport core solver (MINOS/FIESTA)
using non-conforming finite elements for the spatial discretization
and spherical harmonic expansions for the angular discretization.
Advisor: J.-J. Lautard.
June 1999 - June 2004:
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. Funded by a Research/Teaching Assistantship.
Thesis:
'Mixed-Hybrid Discretization Methods for the Linear Transport Equation'.
Development of mixed-hybrid discretization methods based
on the decomposition of the angular flux into even- and odd- angular parity components:
Introduction of a proper mathematical setting,
proof of existence and uniqueness of the solution,
numerical results not only for odd-order but also for
even-order spherical harmonic approximations.
Advisors:
Elmer E. Lewis and Robert Beauwens.
Summer 2000 and summer 2001:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA.
Internship.
Convergence study for the Discrete Synthetic Acceleration (DSA) preconditioning
of the Boltzmann transport equation.
Proved 3-D extensions of existing 1-D convergence results in various asymptotic regimes.
Advisor: Peter N. Brown.
September 1998 - June 1999: Tractebel Energy Engineering, Brussels, Belgium.
Engineer. Thermal-hydraulic safety analyses.
September 1995 - June 1998:
Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels Free University), Belgium.
Master's degree in physical engineering (High Honors), June 1998.
Ms. Thesis: 'Study of Reduction Techniques'.
Study of techniques aiming at producing matrices suitable for easy preconditioning (M-Matrices).
Development of a technique based on a physically motivated lumping procedure.
Ms. Thesis Advisor: Robert Beauwens
September 1993 - June 1995:
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Bachelor in engineering (Honors).