Ileyk El Mellah

Bio

After a seminal research experience at MIT in 2012, Ileyk graduated in Paris in 2016. During his PhD, he developed grid-based codes to model neutron stars and black holes in interaction with their environment. In Leuven, he was granted a Pegasus Marie Curie fellowship to model mass binary systems where plasma flows from a star to a black hole. Ileyk moved to Grenoble in 2020 where he worked on particle-in-cell simulations of magnetic reconnection in the magnetosphere of black holes. He makes an extensive use of high-performance computing techniques such as GPU-parallelization.