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Job Offers
We’re always looking for new talent to join our group and project, including PostDocs, PhD and master students, senior scientists, and/or engineers. Don’t hesitate to contact Kevin or Sophie if you are interested in joining us. Please also have a look at the CNRS job portal
Scientists and engineers
Elsa Baynard – laser engineer
Christelle Bruni – accelerator researcher
Kevin Cassou – senior engineer, project coordinator
Denis Douillet – senior mechanical engineer
Alexandre Gonnin – mechanical engineer
Gregory Iaquaniello – mechanical engineer
Sophie Kazamias – professor
Viacheslav Kubytskyi – senior accelerator engineer ➡️ now at Synchroton Soleil
Bruno Lucas – associate professor
Moana Pittman – senior laser engineer
Olivier Neveu – control command engineer
Yann Peinaud – mechanical engineer
Kalyani Swain – associate researcher
Jean Noel Cayla – accelerator assistant and operator
Konrad Malkinski – electrical assistant
PhD students
| Pierre Drobniak | 2023 | PhD thesis: Development of a 150 MeV laser-plasma injector prototype |
| Coline Guyot | 2024 | PhD thesis: Optimisation of electron beam performance for high peak current laser-plasma and multi-pass energy recovery accelerators with 6D tracking start-to-end simulations |
| Gueladio Kane | 2025 | PhD thesis: Advanced laser control for laser-plasma injector prototype |
| Jana Serhal | 2027 | PhD thesis: development of laser-plasma injector plasma target towards high repetition rate |
| Mykyta Lenivenko | 2027 | PhD thesis: Optimizing laser-plasma accelerator through machine learning |
| Marceau Pintonato | 2028 | PhD CIFRE : High-intensity laser driver operation optimisation for laser wakefield acceleration |
Master and undergraduate students
| Mohamed Samir Amin | Master 2 | 2023 |
| Jesus Avila Pulido | Master 2 | 2024 |
| Mykyta Levinenko | Master 2 | 2024 |
| Jana Serhal | Master 2 | 2024 |
| Jean Barbuat | Undergraduate | 2024 |
| Omer Pasternack | Visiting undergraduate | 2024 |
| Tobias Freund | Master 1 | 2025 |
| Lin | Undergraduate | 2025 |
Scientists and engineers
Arnaud Beck – senior engineer, SMILEI developer
Arnd Specka – senior researcher
Scientists and engineers
Charles Edouard Demonchy – engineer
Arnaud Huber – Geant4 simulation engineer
Antoine Maitrallain – associate researcher
Mehdi Tarisien – professor
Alexei Sytov – Geant4 – associate researcher