Curriculum Vitæ

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Personal Details

• Birth date, place: 12 July 1992, Belgrade, Serbia
• Nationality: Serbian, Italian
• Address: Via al Boschetto 4, 6900 Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
• E-mail: sradman@protonmail.com

Education

• Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering
  Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swtizerland
  January 2017 - March 2021
  Development, verification and validation of a C++ computer code for the simulation of thermal-hydraulics of advanced nuclear reactor concepts, primarily Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors. The doctoral studies also involved the integration of the developed code within the open-source GeN-Foam multi-physics code. The doctoral dissertation is freely available here.

• M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering (with distinction)
  Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), Swtizerland
  September 2014 - September 2016
  The program was jointly held by the ETHZ and EPFL, and involved a semester at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI). It convered nuclear engineering domains ranging from neutron physics and fluid thermal-hydraulics to dosimetry and radiation safety, as well as eligible courses, which I oriented towards nuclear fusion and particle-accelerator design topics.

• B.Sc. in Engineering Physics
  Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi), Italy
  September 2011 - July 2014

Professional Experience

• Modeling and simulation engineer
  Casale, Lugano, Switzerland
  January 2022 - Present
  Variety of activities within the digital engineering department: 1) development and maintenance of model-based software descriptive of proprietary Casale technology for the design of chemical plant unit operations; 2) development and maintenance of proprietary web application back-ends; 3) management and analysis of large technical data-sets.

• IAEA Training Course Series assistant
  International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria
  September 2022 - December 2022
  The remote work (performed in Lausanne, Switzerland) consisted in the drafting and finalization of an IAEA Training Course Series book related to a jointly-held ICTP-IAEA course on the theoretical foundations and application of Computational Fluid Dynamics in nuclear engineering.

• Scientific collaborator
  Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swtizerland
  April 2021 - July 2021
  Extension of the code developed during the Ph.D. (within GeN-Foam) to enable the analysis of more traditional nuclear reactor designs.

• Intern
  Nationale Genossenschaft für die Lagerung radioaktiver Abfälle (Nagra), Switzerland
  July 2015 - September 2015
  Activation calculations for the PSI proton accelerator beamline shielding with the FLUKA Monte Carlo code.

Research Experience

• IAEA Coordinated Research Project participant
  International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria
  July 2018 - December 2022
  Participation to a Coordinated Research Project by the IAEA on computer code benchmarking for fast nuclear reactor concept analyses.

• Teaching assistant
  Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swtizerland
  January 2017 - March 2021
  Teaching assistant duties at the EPFL consisted in: 1) exercise sessions for a M.Sc.-level neutron physics course; 2) experimental sessions for a M.Sc.-level radiation protection course; 3) experimental sessions for a B.Sc.-level general physics course, from Newtonian mechanics to black-body radiation.

Publications

Please refer to the publications page.

Language Skills

• English (full working proficiency)
• Italian (native)
• Serbian (native)
• French (elementary working proficiency)

Soft skills

• Excellent problem-solving, analytical thinking and creative thinking skills
• Strong project management skills in planning, organizing, and executing individual projects
• Good time management skills
• Effective communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional, diverse teams

Hard skills

• Programming languages
  • General-purpose: C++, C#, C, Python, GLSL, Fortran ¹, MATLAB
  • Low-level: Z80 assembly¹, Intel 8080 assembly¹
  • Domain-specific: CMake
  • Markup & stylesheet: \(\LaTeX\), Markdown, HTML¹, CSS ¹
• Operating systems
  • Windows
  • Ubuntu
• Software
  • Simulation environments: GeN-Foam, OpenFOAM solvers, Honeywell UniSim Design, HTRI Xchanger Suite¹, RELAP5¹
  • Monte Carlo radiation transport: Serpent, MCNPX¹, FLUKA¹
  • Data visualization: ParaView
  • Office suites: Microsoft Office, Libre Office
  • Version control, CI/CD: Git, GitLab pipelines
  • IDEs: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code
  • Databases: MongoDB
• APIs and programming libraries
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics: OpenFOAM API (C++)
  • GPU programming: OpenGL API (C++), Nvidia CUDA¹ API (Python)
  • General-purpose Python packages: NumPy, SciPy, Numba, Matplotlib, Pandas, Flask, SocketIO
  • User Interface development: ImGui (C++), Tkinter (Python), WPF¹ (C#)
  • Machine learning: TensorFlow¹ (Python)

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