Experience

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  Stonemanor, the british store

  Oct 2010 - Sept 2011

  Shop floor

  Student job working part time on the shop floor. This consisted mainly of maintaining stock and till work.

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  Ku leuven

  Jul 2014 - Sept 2014

  Student job developing mooc

  Worked with the didactical team of an overhauled course on Systems- and Control Theory to develop interactive Javascript applets and course materials, expanding the course to a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) format.

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  Nokia

  Aug 2016 - Sept 2016

  Intern - bell labs

  Worked on various cases, applying Machine Learning methods in a Broadband Wireline setting. The goal was to assess the applicability of the theoretical methods within the state of the art research in G.Fast technology. Results were presented to Bell Labs and the Fixed Networks Business Unit.Selected topics:* Traffic Prediction with Time-series methods* Transmission Scheduling with Reinforcement Learning* Non-linear optimization with Support Vector Machines

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  Ku leuven

  Sept 2017 - Dec 2018

  Phd researcher

  PhD position in the Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (NUMA) division of the Department of Computer Science. Researching multilevel Monte Carlo methods for asymptotic-preserving particle schemes for kinetic equations.Other responsibilities:* Teaching assistant for a course on scientific software* Supervising master's thesis students* Educational committee member for the Master of Mathematical Engineering* Divisional systems group representative

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  Research foundation flanders - fwo

  Jan 2019 - Dec 2022

  Phd fellow - strategic basic research

  Research into multilevel Monte Carlo methods for simulating kinetic equations in nuclear fusion reactors and their application in data assimilation problems. Continued teaching and supervisory duties in the NUMA division at KU Leuven.

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  Ku leuven

  Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

  Researcher - eurofusion

  Research on efficient Monte Carlo particle simulation in the context of codes for fusion reactor scrape-off layer simulations. Implementation of such methods in the Eiron code as a member of the advanced computing hub at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching.

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  Karlsruhe institute of technology (kit)

  Jan 2024 - now

  Postdoctoral researcher

  Joint position at the Scientific Computing Center, in the groups of Martin Frank (Computational Science and Mathematical Models) and Sebastian Krumscheid (Uncertainty Quantification). I am currently looking into methods for solving inverse problems based on stochastic solvers.