CV

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General Information

Full Name Salomon Jacques Jean Guinchard
Date of Birth December 12, 1999
Languages French (native), English (Fluent), Spanish (Conversational), German (Basics)

Education

  • 2021 - 2023
    Master of Science in Theoretical Physics
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
    • Trained in Plasma Physics, Astrophysics, Quantum Physics
    • Thesis done at PPPL
  • 2018 - 2021
    Bachelor of Science in Physics
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
    • Strong mathematical and physical training.

Experience

  • 2019 - 2023
    Teaching assistant
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
    • Teaching assistant for several Bsc. in Physics courses.
    • Advanced Physics I, Advanced Physics II, Advanced Analysis I.
  • 2020 - 2021
    Notebook programmer
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
    • Development of Jupyter Notebooks to solve PDEs for physics courses.
    • Thermodynamics (Heat equation), Turing patterns (Diffusion and coupled PDEs).

Academic Interests

  • Stellarator design and optimization
    • Variational principles for vacuum field design
    • Magnetic coils design
  • Gyrotrons
    • Formation and dynamics of trapped electron clouds in gyrotrons