Nicolas Wijsen

Assistant Professor at KU Leuven

Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

I am a computational space physicist with a focus on modeling space weather phenomena, including solar eruptions and energetic particle radiation. I have extensive experience in both data-driven and physics-based simulations of the solar wind and solar energetic particles, with a strong emphasis on high-performance computing. I am the lead developer of PARADISE, a massively parallel C++ code designed to simulate particle transport through dynamic solar wind and coronal mass ejection (CME) environments.

Experience

  • Assistant Professor at KU Leuven
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at KU Leuven, Kulak campus. Teaching undergraduate mathematics and physics courses and conducting research in space physics, with a focus on space weather modelling.

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at Research Foundation Flanders - FWO
    Oct 2023 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Aug 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at Research Foundation Flanders - FWO
    Oct 2020 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Phd aspirant at Research Foundation Flanders - FWO
    Oct 2016 - Apr 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos