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co-PI of FWO project Helioskill

KU Leuven

• Fully kinetic Particle in cell simulations
• Working with solar wind in-situ data
• Symbolic regression for equation of state for plasma

Project manager of ASAP

KU Leuven

• Development of algorithms for space-resilient hardware testbed
• Management of the consortium including KU Leuven, INAF Rome, KTH, IngeniArs, UNICAL

Teaching

USA, Belgium, Georgia

• co-supervised Philippine Rouby-Poizat’s MSc thesis at ENS-Lyon 2021
• supervised Remy Smets’ MSc thesis at KU Leuven 2024
• co-supervised Jan Van Rompaeay’s MSc thesis at KU Leuven 2024
• supervising Luka Vranckx’s MSc thesis at KU Leuven 2025
• More details in my section on teaching

Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow

KU Leuven

• Project STRIDE - Moment closure through equation discovery and deep learning
• Advising one master thesis and 2 master projects.

Postdoctoral fellow

KU Leuven

• Predicting space weather events, solar activity, ionosphere etc
• Co-advising three master thesis
• Using equation discovery for reduced order modelling
• Advisor: Giovanni Lapenta

Postdoctoral fellow

LSCE, CEA Saclay

• Predicting and estimating risk of extreme European heatwaves
• Coupling machine learning and rare event algorithms
• Convolutional Variational Autoencoders, Principal Components Analysis
• Working with GPUs on Jean-Zay supercomputer to train Stochastic Weather Generators
• GitHub repo of the project
• Related manuscripts, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
• Advisor: Pascal Yiou

Postdoctoral fellow

École normale supérieure de Lyon

• Predicting extreme heatwaves
• Deep learning, ECMWF reanalysis, and General Circulation Model output analysis
• Co-advised one master student and one PhD student
• GitHub repo of the project
• Related manuscripts, Physical Review Fluids and arXiv
• Advisor: Freddy Bouchet

Postdoctoral fellow

Observatoire de la Côte d'Azure

• Cascades in strong imbalanced kinetic Alfvén wave turbulence
• 3D numerical simulations in C and data analysis in Python
• Related manuscripts, Journal of Plasma Physics and Astrophysical Journal Letters
• Advisor: Thierry Passot

Postdoctoral fellow

Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute

• The states of plasmas that do not radiate self-consistently
• Asymptotic slow-fast manifold expansion of Maxwell-Vlasov
• Related manuscript, Journal of Plasma Physics

Research Project

École normale supérieure de Lyon

• Stochastic transitions in dipolar lattices between ferromagnetic states
• Relaxation to equilibrium and solitons in long-range extensions of FPUT
• Simulations were performed using C and MATLAB
• Related manuscripts, Europhysics Letters, Physical Review E and Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
• Advisor: Stefano Ruffo

PhD

The University of Texas at Austin, Institute of Fusion Studies

• Advisor: Philip J Morrison
• Hamiltonian description of Hall and sub-electron scales in collisionless plasmas
• Inverse cascade in strongly magnetized plasma simulations
• Hamiltonian action principles for the extended MHD

MS in Physics

Tbilisi State University

• 3D modeling of Solar Coronal Closed structure formation and heating due to magneto-fluid coupling
• GitHub repo of the project with the uploaded thesis

Associate Editor of JGR Machine Learning and Computation

KU Leuven

Jury member of the PhD committe of Dr. Jincai Ren

KU Leuven

Organizer of Scientific Outlooks for the Analysis of Space Weather Data in the Age of AI

TDM at European Space Weather Week, Umeå

Organizer of Smart Orbits, Advancing AI for Space Exploration and Space Plasmas

KU Leuven

Organizer of Giovanni Lapenta's Scientific Legacy Workshop

KU Leuven

Organizer of Centre of Plasma Astrophysics Weekly Seminar

KU Leuven

University of Texas Graduate Continuing Fellowship

Nomination for Graduate School UT Austin graduate fellowship

University of Texas Visualizing Science Award

University of Texas Graduate scholarship

Prof. Estate Khmaladze's award in Theoretical Physics

Recipient of World Federation of Scientists' Scholarship

Silver Medal in 7th Asian Physics Olympiad