Brussels Metropolitan Area
Engineer with an interdisciplinary education and a sleeves-up, hands-on attitude. Cryogenics and thermal engineering are my specialties, historically for accelerators and space applications, but more recently with further applications in the food and pharmaceutical sectors, as well as in industry. Do you have a project in any of these fields and require a collaborator or equipment? Don't hesitate to reach out via private message on LinkedIn!
Multi-faceted internal and external support towards cryogenics for application in the food, pharmaceutical, and industrial sectors, based in Northern Europe (UK, Benelux & Nordics). This involves evaluation and specification of equipment and solutions in areas such as but not limited to: - Freezing, chilling & cooling - Freeze-drying - Cryogenic grinding - VOC removal by cryogenic condensation and/or cryoadsorption - Temperature control of process flows - Other exceptional requests... Work from offer preparation, process auditing, safety auditing, site visits, until installation and commissioning. Also co-responsible for several training initiatives towards commercial and technical colleagues internally as well as externally towards customers.
In the context of the MYRRHA project, cryogenics system engineering for its first phase, MINERVA, a single-injector linac up to 100 MeV. My main focus was on the prototype cryomodule assembly for the MINERVA accelerator, whose manufacturing and consequent I oversaw on behalf of the MYRRHA team, in collaboration with IJCLab (Orsay, FR) and Accelerator Cryogenics and Systems (Orsay, FR). Furthermore and during manufacturing of the prototype, my responsibilities included general technical support, aid with procurement of other cryogenics components, establishment of collaboration agreements and interfacing with existing collaboration partners, all on topics pertaining to cryogenics.
Responsible for two of the test stands at the Central Cryogenics Laboratory (TE-CRG-CI): A test stand for measurement and analysis of the heat transport mechanisms in superfluid helium-4 from superconducting cables used in the Large Hadron Collider and its High Luminosity upgrade (HL-LHC). Its most notable application was to the validation and simulations of the thermal limits of the Nb3Sn dipole (11 T dipole) and quadrupole (MQXF) magnets to be installed for the HL-LHC upgrade. This work involved interfacing with the TE-MSC group, responsible for magnet technology, and reporting relevant data and findings in order to aid the development and thermal design of the new generation of superconducting magnets. A second test stand for traction measurements of material samples down to superfluid helium-4 temperatures, which I recovered back into operation and most recently measured samples of aerogel for radiation-transparent cryostats for FCC detector magnets. Additional outreach work and general cryogenics assistance to colleagues of other groups were also part of my daily activities.
We developed a system for high pressure, low-temperature adsorption measurements, used for characterization of materials to be used in a thermochemical compressor of a vibration-free cryocooler for a European Space Agency project. This work involved all steps of development, from early conceptual design, to dimensioning, interfacing with technicians for mechanical conception, consequent construction, commissioning, and finally validation of the system by comparison to an existing commercial solution.
General help around the lab. Mounting of a photoelectron spectroscopy system. Electron transfer processes in biologically relevant molecules. High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (HREELS).