Rebecq, Walloon Region, Belgium
In June 2008, I completed a master degree in Physical Engineering. During my master classes, I mainly studied Nuclear Engineering, Optics and also Fluid Dynamics. In particular, I learned different numerical approaches used in fluid dynamics such as finite difference and finite element methods. Then I started a PhD degree in Atomic Physics under the supervision of Professor M. Godefroid from the “Chimie Quantique et Photophysique” research group of the Université libre de Bruxelles. During my PhD degree, I tackled several problems related to nuclear physics. More precisely, I developed numerical tools in the aim of describing as well as possible the bound electronic states of many-electron atoms. All along this thesis, I had the opportunity to get a glimpse of the difficulties linked to the numerical simulation of complex physical systems. Numerical modeling and simulation of complex physicochemical phenomena is a really motivating research field; the abilities of this approach to produce valuable data and to test the selected physical or chemical approximations on concrete cases are remarkable. After obtaining my PhD degree, I joined the CFD & Thermal-hydraulics team of Tractebel Engineering that is providing very similar research and development outputs. Since then, I have been working in a stimulating environment moving from projects requiring the application of established techniques to R&D projects requiring computer code and/or methodology development involving either Thermal-hydraulic system computer codes and/or Computational Fluid Dynamics computer codes.
PhD student