Julien Tranchida
Research Staff Member at CEA
Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolJulien Tranchida is a research staff member with nine years’ experience in atomistic simulation and materials theory, currently focused on the atomistic simulation and theory of nuclear fuels at CEA in France. He brings a strong academic foundation—PhD work on multiscale models for temperature effects in high-frequency magnetic materials—and postdoctoral and research scientist experience at Sandia National Laboratories. Julien couples theoretical development with performance-minded software contributions, notably enhancing spin physics and algorithms in the widely used LAMMPS molecular dynamics code. His background spans aerospace and plasma modeling to electro-hydrodynamic applications, reflecting a propensity to bridge applied physics and high-performance computational implementations. Colleagues would describe him as a scientist-developer who moves seamlessly between theory, numerical methods, and production-grade code optimizations.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Aeronautics et Terrestrial Transportation (TAT), Master's degree, Aeronautics et Terrestrial Transportation (TAT) at Université de PoitiersMaster of Science (M.S.), Aerospace Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Aerospace Engineering at Ecole nationale supérieure de Mécanique et d'AérotechniqueMathematics, Physics and Engineering sciences, Mathematics, Physics and Engineering sciences at Prytanée National Militaire
French, English, German
Github Skills (10)
simulations10
simulation10
fortran10
computational-physics10
c-language10
molecular-dynamics-simulation10
cprogramming-language10
molecular-simulation10
simulator10
nonlinear-dynamics10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lammps/lammps
May 2017 - Sep 2022
Public development project of the LAMMPS MD software package
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 285 commits, 20 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Julien made extensive changes to the LAMMPS MD software package, focusing on implementing and optimizing new spin-related features. They were involved in adding DMI and ME interactions, computation optimizations, and removing print statements. Furthermore, the user's work included implementing a new algorithm and modifying the energy calculation for spin systems.
lammpsmolecular-dynamicssimulationkokkos
julient31/lammps
May 2017 - Sep 2022
First version of the SPIN package
Contributions:297 pushes, 46 branches in 5 years 5 months
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