| Current position | Head of Data Science & Visualisation Group |
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| Employer | CCFE - UKAEA |
| Address | D3-2-78, Culham Science Centre Abingdon OX14 3DB, UK |
| Tel | +44 1235 466 435 |
| stanislas.pamela@ukaea.uk | |
| Date of Birth | 05 Jan. 1986 |
| Nationality | France |
| Head of Data Science & Visualisation Group (2022-now) |
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| Area | AI & Machine-Learning for Fusion Research Advanced Visualisation |
| Employer | CCFE - UKAEA |
| Location | Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, UK |
| HPC Specialist Research Software Engineer (2019-2022) |
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| Area | HPC software development Cloud-Computing software infrastructure VVUQ (Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification) |
| Employer | CCFE - UKAEA |
| Location | Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, UK |
| Research Physicist (2013-2019) | |
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| Area | Numerical Simulation & Theoretical Analysis of Edge Stability in Tokamak Fusion Plasmas |
| Employer | CCFE - UKAEA |
| Location | Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, UK |
| Post-Doc Position (2010-2013) | |
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| Position Title | JET Operating Contract (JOC) Chain1, Chain2 and Flush Responsible Officer |
| Employer | EFDA-JET -- CEA -- Aix-Marseille Univ. |
| Location | JET, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, UK |
| PhD Thesis (2007-2010) | |
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| Thesis Title | Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation of Edge-Localised-Modes in a Tokamak |
| Employer | IRFM, CEA Cadarache |
| Funding | Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) Project ASTER |
| Supervisor | G.Huysmans (IRFM, CEA) |
| Co-supervisor | S.Benkadda (PIIM, Aix-Marseille Univ.) |
| MSc Mathematics (2003-2007) | |
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| University | Imperial College London (UK) |
| Course Title | Mathematics with a year in Europe |
| Final Grade | First Class |
| Specialisation | Mathematical Physics (Phys.Fluids, Waves, Relativity, PDEs) Algebra (Geometry, Groups and Rings, Algebraic Geometry) |
| Master Thesis | Thin-film Flows of a Non-Viscous Fluid Driven by Gravity Over Curved Substrates |
| Erasmus Germany (2005-2006) | |
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| University | Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin (Germany) |
| Courses | Mathematics (Algebra, Algebraic Geometry) |
| Final Grade | First Class |
| European Baccalaureate (2003) | |
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| Institute | European School Culham (UK) |
| Courses | Advanced Maths, Physics, Chemistry, German, Music |
| Final Grade | 85% |
| Music (2002) | |
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| Violin | Grade-8 (UK top qualification before professional studies) |
| ENR Project (2017-2018) | |
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| Role | PI |
| Funding | EUROfusion (Enabling Research - ENR) |
| Title of Project | Understanding the role of reconnection in filament separation and its impact on plasma exhaust in tokamaks. |
| Project Code | AWP17-ENR-MFE_CCFE-01 |
| Total budget | 534,000€, 12.5 person/year |
| Team Size | 20 members |
| Institutes | CCFE (UK), Manchester Univ. (UK), Warwick Univ. (UK), Aristotle Univ. (Greece), CNR (Italy), CEA (France), Eidhoven Univ. (Netherlands) |
| PRACE grant (2017-2018) | |
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| Role | PI |
| Funding | PRACE Tier-0 Supercomputing Resources |
| Title of Project | JOREK_MHD: Validation of simulations of MHD instabilities in tokamak plasmas for extrapolation to ITER. |
| Total budget | 30 Million core.hours over 12 months |
| Team Size | 10 members |
| Institutes | CCFE (UK), CEA (France), Nice University (France), ITER (IO), IPP Garching (Germany) |
| JET Task (2015-2016) | |
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| Role | Scientific Coordinator of EUROfusion WPJET1 Task T15-02 during experimental campaigns of JET tokamak |
| Title of Task | Pedestal Analysis and Modelling |
| Team Size | 49 members |
| Recent Conferences | |
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| Oral at 42nd European Physics Society EPS-2015 (Lisbon, Portugal) | |
| Oral at 27th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (Kyoto, Japan) | |
| Overview at 28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (Ahmedabad, India) |
| Programing Languages | |
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| Scientific | Fortran, C, Python, Matlab, IDL |
| HPC | MPI, openMP |
| Script | bash, Perl |
| Web development | HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, SQL |
| Data | XML, HDF5 |
| Version Control | git, svn, cvs |
| Plasma Physics for Magnetic Fusion |
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| 3D non-linear MHD simulation of fusion plasmas |
| Pedestal and ELM physics in tokamaks |
| Tokamak plasma filamentation |
| Tokamak Scrape-Off Layer transport |
| Code Validation |
| Data-Analysis on the JET Tokamak |
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| Chain1/Chain2 : Data-analysis on JET (~110 diagnostic codes) |
| Flush : Public library to exploit tokamak magnetic equilibria |
| Surf : Visualisation software for JET magnetic equilibria |
| HPC and Numerical Development |
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| Yearly HPC consumption : >20 Million core.hours |
| Non-linear 3D simulation |
| Open-MPI parallel computing |
| Finite-element grid-generators |
| Data visualization (vtk, Paraview) |
| Advanced synthetic diagnostics (eg. visible/InfraRed camera) |
| Interfacing between programming languages (wrappers) |
| Web development: built my own 'dropbox' (stanstash.com) |
| Students Recruitment at CCFE |
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| Department: Tokamak Science |
| Programs: Summer placements (3mm), Year-in-Industry (<12mm) |
| Typical load : ~12 Summer students, ~7 Year-in-Industry |
| CCFE PhD Showcase Coordinator |
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| Event: 2 days with all CCFE-related PhD students |
| Institutions: all UK universities |
| Typical attendance: ~40 PhD students plus supervisors |
| PhD Student Supervision |
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| Emily Lewis (CCFE and University College London.UK) |
| 'Machine-Learning Reconstruction of Plasma Equilibrium' |
| Ekin Ozturk (CCFE and Imperial College London.UK) |
| 'Inverse Rendering of MAST-U Fast-Camera Imaging' |
| Enrico Crovini (CCFE and Imperial College London.UK) |
| 'Bayesian Optimisation Methods for HPC Modelling Codes' |
| Matthew Marshall (CCFE and University College London.UK) |
| 'Uncertainty Quantification of MHD Instability Modelling' |
| Siobhan Smith (CCFE and York Univ.UK) |
| 'Simulation of ELMs in MAST-U Super-X Configurations' |
| Sang-Kyeun Kim (Seoul Univ.Korea) |
| 'Simulation of ELM-Control with RMPs in KSTAR' |