Scientist, Model Validation and Experimental Data Analysis

Your impact

You will make Proxima's plasma simulation stack trustworthy by confronting it with reality. Every prediction we make for Alpha – Proxima's Q>1 experimental stellarator – and for Stellaris, our commercial power plant, rests on models whose credibility has to be earned against real measurements from an operating device.

W7-X is where we earn it. You will take our integrated modeling framework, FUS3, and our Bayesian plasma state estimation workflow to W7-X data: reconstruct the plasma state from diagnostic measurements, compare our predictive models against what the machine actually did, and turn the discrepancies into a prioritized map of where our physics is right, where it is not, and what we must fix before Alpha's first plasma. Modeling sits on Alpha's operational critical path and cannot be backfilled after first plasma – this role is how we get ahead of it.