Current position | HPC Specialist Research Software Engineer |
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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' |