Curriculum Vitae

Visiting researcher in a team working on future gas-cooled high-temperature nuclear reactors (HTR), in the framework of the Generation IV international forum. Main tasks: Improvements of existing in-house thermohydraulic simulation codes (in particular "Cathare"). Development of new features for the modeling of HTR core neutronics and heat transfer.

Visiting researcher in a collaboration on the numerical modeling of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows.

Post-doc financed by an Individual Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Commission.

• Development of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence models and methods for numerical simulation of MHD flows. Implementation and validation of models in FLUENT (commercial CFD code).
• Development of a pseudo-spectral code for direct numerical simulation (DNS) of MHD turbulence. Optimization for the vector/parallel supercomputer NEC/SX5 at IDRIS (France).
• Teaching of industrial fluid mechanics at INP Grenoble (applied exercises, introductory level).
  

• Specialist in fluid mechanics (02/94-02/96). Responsible for CFD activities. Applications in air pollution control, paper making and industrial paint finishing. Turbulence modeling, combustion, heat transfer and multiphase flows (with commercial code CFX).
• R&D project manager and technical specialist (01/92-02/94). Air pollution control, in particular processes for Mercury and dioxin removal.
• R&D engineer (09/90-01/92). Air pollution control. Numerical modeling, statistical analysis,aerosol physics, gas adsorption/absorption phenomena.
  

Ph.D. thesis in fluid mechanics under the direction of Prof. Fritz Bark (KTH) and Prof. Said Zahrai (ABB Corporate Research) at the Faxén Laboratory.

• Development of a new family of turbulence models which account for structural (length-scale) anisotropy appearing in a magnetic field. Thesis "Modeling of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence", defended on December 15, 2000.
• Teaching in classical mechanics at KTH (excersises, introductory level).
• Teaching in numerical simulation techniques using the commercial CFD code CFX (post-graduate level). Responsible for technical support on CFX at the laboratory.
• Teaching and development of practical examples (numerical simulation) for a course in multiphase fluid dynamics (post-graduate level).
  

M.Sc. in Engineering Physics.

• Atomic and Molecular spectroscopy, semiconductor physics. Environmental engineering.
• Teaching in classical physics (laboratory courses, introductory level).
  

Military service (15 months).