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Associate Professor, Astrophysics & Concurrent Associate Professor, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame, USA

Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Physics

Associate Editor, Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology

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Dr., Ingénieur de Recherche, CEA Saclay, Institut de Recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l'Univers, Laboratoire Cosmologie et Evolution des Galaxies.

Galactic dynamics, galaxy formation, large-scale star formation physics, numerical simulations, hydrodynamics, optical and infrared spectroscopy. Development and optimization of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) simulation techniques for the modelling of small-scale ISM structure in large-scale galaxy simulations (dense gas clouds, clustered star formation, realistic feedback processes).

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Chargé de Recherche,  National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), CRAL, ENS-Lyon, France

Star-formation, disks and outflows, adaptive mesh radiation-MHD.

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Scientific Visualization Task Leader, Swiss National Supercomputer Centre (CSCS)

Introduction to vtk, ParaView, and VisIt.

Introduction to hdf5 and FASTBIT (very large particle data).

Examples of data-visualization of astrophysical flows and particles.

python-based scripting for data-analyses in ParaView/VisIt.

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Dr, Senior Research Associate, CRAL, ENS-Lyon, France.

Dynamics Interstellar Medium. Turbulence. Adaptive Mesh Radiative Transfer. Adaptive Mesh hydrodynamics.

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Professor, Astronomy Department and Physics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, August 2015—July 2016.

Fellow of the American Physical Society
American Astronomical Society, American Geophysical Union
American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Astronomical Union

General relativistic accretion and associated outflows.

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Professor, Centrum voor Plasma Astrofysica, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Consultant, University of Colorado, Boulder, since 2007

Editor, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Co-Investigator of the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission, coordinator of EC- FP7 Project: eHeroes and co-investigator EC Projects: DEEP and DEEP-ER.

Kinetics of astrophysical plasmas, magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration.

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Dr, Ingénieur de Recherches CNRS, Centre Blaise Pascal, ENS-Lyon, France.

MPI/OpenMP/GPU, machine architetures.

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