After graduating, I spent 14 months at CERN as a Technical Student (research intern). CERN was hugely influential in shaping my software engineering journey.
I worked with the STEAM Team on FiQuS, a Python and C++ simulation software package for superconducting magnets. My project was the development of FiQuS Pancake3D, which performs finite element quench simulation of high-temperature superconducting pancake coils.
My contributions are open source on CERN’s GitLab. See the CERNGetDP and FiQuS repositories, or my GitLab profile.
I co-authored three publications based on this research, including one as first author:
Magneto-Thermal Thin Shell Approximation for 3D Finite Element Analysis of No-Insulation Coils
10.1109/TASC.2023.3340648
December 2023
An Open-Source 3D FE Quench Simulation Tool for No-Insulation HTS Pancake Coils
10.1088/1361-6668/ad3f83
May 2024
Influence of Critical Current Defect on Operation, Quench Detection and Protection of a Conduction-Cooled Pancake REBCO Coil
10.1109/TASC.2025.3532246
January 2025