Fabien Bruneval
Directeur De Recherche at CEA
Saclay, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolFabien Bruneval is a research director at CEA with 11+ years of experience at the intersection of condensed matter physics and materials science, grounded in a doctorate from École Polytechnique and an HDR from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. He has led long-term research programs since 2007, including a postdoc at ETH Zürich, and now directs scientific strategy and advanced computational studies in Saclay. Equally comfortable in theory and code, he contributes to scientific software ecosystems—maintaining and tuning packages in the widely used Spack package manager for tools like CP2K, MOLGW and ABINIT. His work blends deep domain expertise in electronic-structure methods with practical engineering to make high-performance research codes more reproducible and portable. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic scientist who translates complex physical models into robust, shareable computational workflows.
11 years of coding experience
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Physics, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Physics at CentraleSupélecDoctorat, Physique des solides, Doctorat, Physique des solides at École PolytechniqueHabilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR), Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1Master 2 (M2), Materials Science, Master 2 (M2), Materials Science at Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Github Skills (13)
build-tools10
package-manager10
spack10
package-management10
scientific-computing10
python9
hpc9
fortran8
cprogramming-language7
c-language7
cmake6
autotools6
mpi5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Package Maintainer
Back-end Developer / Package MaintainerContributions:14 reviews, 3 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Fabien primarily contributed to the Spack package manager, focusing on adding, fixing, and updating packages related to scientific computing software. Their work involved modifying package definitions, including dependencies, build configurations, and versioning. Key contributions include fixing a variant tuning issue in CP2K, adding tuning options for MOLGW, and updating and correcting SHA sums for ABINIT. They demonstrated experience in maintaining and extending Spack's package ecosystem.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
bruneval/molgw.org
Mar 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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