LNCMI Toulouse, France.

Published on Mar 2, 2018.

I studied physics at Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse and got my Master degree in 2005. At the end of my university education I did a four months training period in the strongly correlated fermions group with Alain Audouard and David Vignolles. I stayed there for a one year as a research assistant. After that, I got the opportunity to join Paul Frings group (coils) on a permanent engineer position.

We design, realize and test coils and supplies as turnkey solutions, meeting the requirements of our experimentalists. I am specialized in coils design and production. It involves different skills ranging from multiphysics simulation to machining in the workshop. In our work, we are in strong collaboration with researchers as each experiment has its own constrains, which sometimes require specific conception.

Together with Paul Frings and Julien Billette, I realized a double coil producing the longest pulses above 80 tesla (see EMFL News n°4/2013 p.3). Another big achievement in my career is the monolithic 80 tesla coil  operated with our new 6 MJ generator (see EMFL News n°1/2014 p.3). We are also involved in the coupling of magnetic fields with advanced radiation sources, such as synchrotron at ESRF or neutrons at ILL, which requires unique transportable coil and supply systems.

Apart from condensed matter physics, our techniques can also be applied to other research fields. I started a collaboration with a team at LULI (intense laser laboratory – Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France) to generate plasmas with their 50 J, 700 ps laser pulses in a strong magnetic field. We can now reproduce some of the most violent astrophysics conditions in the lab