Summary
My research is focused on computational astrophysics and its application to cosmology, galaxy formation and star formation. I am running large simulations featuring gravity, fluid dynamics, MHD and radiative transfer, taking advantage of High Performance Computing facilities around the world. I am the main author of RAMSES code, a massively parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement code. Fields of expertise: 1- Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws 2- Implicit solvers and radiation hydrodynamics 3- Self-gravitating magnetized flows in astrophysics 4- High Performance Computing (MPI, OpenMP, GPGPU)
Professional experiences
Professor in astrophysical sciences
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Since 2. september 2021
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Professor of astrophysical sciences
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY , Princeton - CDI
From September 2021 to Today
Enseignement et recherche en physique fondamentale.
Professor in computational astrophysics
University of Zurich
From July 2020 to October 2021
As a Full Professor at the Institute for Computational Sciences, I am teaching astrophysics, continuum mechanics and computational science. I am supervising PhD students in astrophysics and computational science. I am also the director of the Institute for Computational Science and the Swiss delegate to the Euclid Consortium board.
Astrophysicien
Université de Zürich , Zürich
From July 2013 to August 2021
Associate professor in computational astrophysics
University of Zurich
From June 2013 to June 2020
As a visiting professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, I am teaching astronomy and continuum mechanics. I am also supervising PhD students in astrophysics. I am part of the HP2C project coordinated by the Swiss Supercomputing Center.
Ingénieur
CEA , Gif-sur-yvette - CDI
From September 1998 to June 2013
Research scientist
CEA
From January 1998 to December 2013
I am the head of the Computational Astrophysics group in Saclay (the COAST project). Our goal is to develop HPC tools to study astrophysical magnetized flows.
Postdoctoral researcher
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
From January 1997 to December 1998
I was running simulations for laser experiments dedicated to astrophysical stuff.
Additionals trainings
Corps
Armement
0000 à
Ingénieur
École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées
0000 à
Degree
Languages
Anglais - Langue maternelle
Allemand - Courant
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