Curriculum Vitae


Rémi J. Dumont (29 years old, French citizen)

Plasma physicist

RF waves in hot plasmas - Kinetic and Wave codes
Data analysis of tokamak experiments

Degrees and Positions

Currently	Permanent Researcher (Plasma physics & thermonuclear fusion)
	Main research topic: Plasma-Wave interactions in fusion plasmas
	CEA Cadarache (France)
2001-2003	Post-doctoral contract (Plasma physics & thermonuclear fusion)
	Main Research subject: Full-Wave Modeling of RF waves in fusion plasmas
	Princeton University (USA)
1997-2001	PhD Thesis (Plasma physics & thermonuclear fusion)
	Title: Current profile control by electron cyclotron waves in tokamaks
	CEA Cadarache (France)
	Defended on July 3rd, 2001
1996-1997	Post-graduate degree - Plasma Physics
	Project: EC Heating and Current Drive scenarios studies
	Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy I (France)
1995-1996	Master's degree - Physics
	Project: Pulse reflectometry in a tokamak plasma
	L.P.M.I., Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy I (France)
1994-1995	Bachelor's degree - Physics
	Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy I (France)

Research experience

• Post-doctoral contract at Princeton University (USA)

  Research subject:	Full-Wave modeling of radiofrequency waves in fusion plasmas

  
  

  • Analytical developement of the tools for the full-wave description of the effects of RF waves in hot plasmas, in the framework of the SciDAC national project.
  • Developement of the numerical parallel codes describing these effects.
  • Comparison with approximate methods and experimental observations.
  • Exploitation of these tools to optimize the physical techniques associated with RF waves on fusion machines.

• 3 years at CEA Cadarache (France)

  PhD Thesis: Current profile control by electron cyclotron waves in tokamaks.

  • Theoretical study of the electron cyclotron (EC) waves polarization in hot plasmas.
  • Extensive use and development of Ray Tracing, Fokker-Planck and Transport codes.
  • Development of a self consistent Kinetic + Transport numerical model for the description of scenarios using combined lower hybrid (LH) and EC waves.
  • Preparation, realization and analysis of EC heating and current drive experiments in Tore Supra.
  • Analysis and modeling of LH-EC discharges realized on the FTU tokamak (Italy) in the framework of an international collaboration.

  
  
  Research experience (continued)

• 2 months at ENEA Frascati (Italy)

  Mission: Combined lower hybrid and electron cyclotron experiments on the FTU tokamak

  • Kinetic + Transport modeling of LH current drive experiments in FTU.
  • Experimental study of LH-EC discharges realized on FTU.

• 10 months at CEA/DAM Bruyères-le-Châtel (France)

  Training period: Whistler-plasma interaction and radial diffusion in Van Allen belts

  • Analytical development of a model for the dynamic description of plasma-wave interaction in Van Allen belts.
  • Implementation of the related modules in a pre-existing kinetic code, with special effort devoted to computational performance.

Additional skills

• Summer lecturer at Princeton University (Electromagnetism, Plasma Physics)
• Referee for ``Physics of Plasmas''
• High performance computing methods (vectorial & parallel architectures)
• Unix systems (Linux, BSD, Solaris) and networks

  Several languages (Fortran, C, Matlab, Perl, Python, L^ATEX)

References

Dr G. Giruzzi	Dr C.K. Phillips	Dr M. Brambilla
CEA Cadarache	P.P.P.L.	Max Planck Inst. für Plasmaphysik
DRFC/SCCP	P.O. Box 451	Boltzmann Strasse 2
13108 St-Paul-lez-Durance Cedex	Princeton, NJ 08543	D-85748 Garching
France	USA	Germany
+33 (0)4 42 25 73 44	+1 (609) 924-2836	+49 89 32 99 14 07
gerardo.giruzzi@cea.fr	ckphilli@pppl.gov	mab@ipp.mpg.de

Languages

• French: mother tongue
• English: fluent
• German, Italian: basic

Work Address		Home Address
CEA Cadarache		2, impasse du Bassin
DRFC/SCCP		13510 Eguilles (France)
13108 St-Paul-lez-Durance (France)		Tel: +33 (0)4 42 92 50 71
Tel: +33 (0)4 42 25 48 76		e-mail: rjdumont@wanadoo.fr
e-mail: remi.dumont@cea.fr