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Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Providing geo-data as a service to the Belgium insurance and financial sector.• First Employee; contributing to Rockestate's journey from a regional to an international player.

Working on Sanction Screening Solution. Specification, Prototyping, Business Assurance.• Python, FSTs, NLP, Machine Learning, Spark, Kafka, C.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Providing technical expertise to the financial crime and compliance marketing department. Researching insights from operational data using statistical analysis. Facilitating new product development, prototyping solutions.• Data analysis in financial crime prevention and compliance area, Natural Language Processing, Python, Finite State Automata.• OLAP, Business intelligence of payment flow data in correspondent banking, SQL, MicroStrategy.• Acceptance testing business aspects in automated environment using Python, git, JIRA, Jenkins.• Machine Learning on large datasets, regression analysis, Bayesian Inversion.• Web scraping XML, JSON, Python.• FATF16 compliance analysis of payment messages.

Culham, Oxford

Secondment while employed at Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching.• Researching the vision of harnessing the power generation process of the sun on earth as part of the international JET collaboration, presentation of results on conferences, publication in scientific journals, supervision of students and technical staff, chairing of meeting for assurance of reproducibility and quality of scientific results.• Bayesian analysis of physics data, modelling of physical systems, solution of inverse problems, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), efficient re-parametrisation of sampled distribution, convergence monitoring. Writing Numerical software in C++ and in Python with numerical kernels written in C: numerical integration, solution of system of differential equations (ODE), Runge-Kutta-, Rosenbrock-solver, data parallel solution of ODE using OpenCL, technologies: C++, Python, C, OpenCL, object oriented design, algorithms, legacy database, SGE Cluster, Unix• Responsible officer for the JET analysis software suite, coordinating efforts of 50+ people. Re-engineered framework and release process of experiment software, reducing administrative effort while achieving traceability of science data, providing support for suite of ca. 90 (legacy) codes written in Fortran, C++/C, IDL, Python. technologies used: Perl, XML, object oriented design, unit testing, git, Gnu-Make, Linux, MPI, legacy database.• Maintenance of JET heterodyne radiometer-subsystem, statistical analysis of scientific data, radiofrequency engineering.

Greifswald, Germany

• Development of novel statistical analysis for plasma spectroscopy, conducting experimental,theoretical and computational aspects of research project, compilation of input data sets, supervision of students and technicians, presentation of results at international conferences. Written thesis evaluated with 'summa cum laude'.• Modelling of emission spectrum of plasma discharge, model with large number of uncertain inputparameters, implementation using ROOT framework, technologies: Linux, C++, Qt, ROOT,Subversion, Doxygen, Gnu-Make, Zsh, parallel execution on cluster, linear algebra, numericalintegration.• Swift re-orientation in different field of physics, successful demonstration of method withinfunding period with publication in peer reviewed journal, start of international collaborations(University of Des Moines, Iowa, invited demonstration of method at NFRI institute in Dae-jeon, Korea).

Hamburg

Diploma Research Project, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg.• Scientific research in high energy particle physics as part of the international H1 collaboration, teaching seminars and supervising laboratory training at the University of Dortmund.• Writing data analysis software in C++ using ROOT framework, assisted commissioning of H1real time data processing subsystem (FTT), technologies: C++, ROOT, Gnu-Make, Subversion,Linux, statistical analysis, object oriented design, legacy database, Altera FPGAs, DSP, VxWorks.Key Achievements:• Presentation of results on national conference (oral), co-author of peer reviewed publications.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nuclear Physics, Evaluation Of Thesis 'Summa Cum Laude', Overall Grade 'Magna Cum Laude'

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Master'S Degree, Physics, Sehr Gut (Best Mark)

Elementary Particle Physics

(150 accepted out of 1000 applications per year)

Elementary Particle Physics

(80 accepted out of 500 applications per year)