Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) PhD in Applied Mathematics & Computational Mechanics                  CIM Research Group Department of Computational Mechanics CEMEF - MINES ParisTech 06904 Sophia-Antipolis -  France tel. +33 (0)4 93 95 74 58 fax. +33 (0)4 92 38 97 52 office: E 227 email:

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Professional Experience

08/2011 Visiting Fellow, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Computer Science Research Institute (Host Researche: Prof. Scott Collis, CSRI Deputy Director)

02/2011 Visiting Fellow, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Department of Mathematics "F. Brioschi"
MOX: Modeling and Scientific Computing   (Host Researcher: Prof. S. Perotto)

Since 09/2009  Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track ) MINES ParisTech, France
CEMEF: Center for Material Forming    (Host Researcher: Prof. T. Coupez)
Key words: Applied Mathematics - Multiscale and Stabilized Finite Element Methods for Fluid-structure Interaction - Computational Fluid Dynamics - Conjugate Heat Transfer and Turbulence modeling

2006 - 2009  Research Associate, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France
Member of the Advanced Computing in Mechanics Research group

2004 - 2005  Research Associate, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
Centre of Applied Mathematics (CMAP), (Host researcher: Dr. F. Jouve)

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Education

2009 Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics & Computational Mechanics, MINES ParisTech
Area of Specialization: Computational Mechanics
Title: “Stabilized finite element method for heat transfer and turbulent flows inside industrial furnaces”
Advisor: Prof. Thierry Coupez & Dr. Elisabeth Massoni

2005 Graduate Research Project : "Form optimization in the photonic crystals"
Centre of Applied Mathematics (CMAP), Ecole Polytechnique - Paris

2004 M.S. in Applied Mathematics, "Numerical Analysis, Partial differential equations"
In collaboration of Paris VI, France and University of Saint-Joseph, Lebanon

2002 M.S. in Applied Mathematics, "Mathematics & Computer Science for Finance"
University of Saint-Joseph, Lebanon

2001 M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics, Lebanese University, Faculty of Science, Lebanon

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Awards

- GENCI: Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif
Winner Grant: access to HPC resources of CINES
Allocation of 150,000 compute hours for 2011 - Thematic: Fluid dynamics and complex fluids

- Best PhD Thesis: ECCOMAS Ph.D. Award 2009, European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences  >> click for details

- Best PhD Thesis: SMAI-GAMNI Ph.D. Award 2009, Society of Applied & Industrial Mathematics  and Group of Advanced Numerical Methods and Engineering in France >> click for details

-Conference Fellowship for the 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics,
WCCM08, Venise, Italy (July 2008)

- Ph.D fellowship of the research foundation - ADEME (2006)

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Teaching (recent)

- "S6133/5: Finite Elements & Application" Engineering Students, MINES ParisTech, Paris
-"Computational Fluid Dynamics" Master students MINES ParisTech - CEMEF
- "Applications with FLUENT" Master students MINES ParisTech - CEMEF
- "Advanced Numerical Methods" 1st year of doctoral formation MINES ParisTech - CEMEF
- "Stabilized FEM for Convection-Diffusion-Reaction equations" 1st year of doctoral formation MINES ParisTech - CEMEF

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Co-advising & Students

2011 Jéremy Vesset (Ph.D Student, 2011 – 2013)
Title of the thesis: Solving large scale computation of heat transfer and turbulent flows
2011 Ghina el Jannoun (Ph.D Student, 2011 – 2013)
Title of the thesis: Solving long time computation of heat transfer and turbulent flows
2009 Stephanie El-Feghali (Ph.D Student, 2009 – 2012)
Title of the thesis: Stabilized FEM for Fluid-Structure Interaction
2008 Guillaume François (Ph.D Student, 2008 – 2011)
Title of the thesis: Turbulent multiphase flows: theory & application
2008 Nadine El-Kossefi (Ph.D Student, 2008 – 2011)
Title of the thesis: Numerical investigations for quenching process
2010 Guillaume Lebret (Master Student)
Title of the thesis: Numerical simulation of super alloy tubes hot extrusion process
2009 Théophile Hordé (Master Student)
Title of the thesis: Numerical simulation for CVD reactors