Files
website/content/en/skills.md
Pim Nelissen 02e3bf816e update skills
2026-02-08 19:20:56 +01:00

5.6 KiB

+++ title = "Skills" slug = "skills" +++

🌟 Core Competencies

From my background in physics and computational science, I have a strong foundation in using numerical methods and statistical methods for solving physical problems. Examples of such methods include numerical methods for differential equations, Monte Carlo simulations, statistical learning including Bayesian methods and machine learning, both supervised and unsupervised approaches.

I am particularly interested in using those skills for peaceful applications of nuclear science. My bachelor degree thesis was about applying machine learning on radioactive decay data. I am proficient in Python, experienced with R and MATLAB, and have some exposure to C++, C# and SQL. I am very comfortable with GNU/Linux and Git workflows.

My master degree thesis will be on furthering the development of a Bayesian algorithm for multisource detection in mobile gamma spectroscopy.

{{< notice tip >}}A selection of code can be found on my git instance.{{< /notice >}}


🧪 Workshops & Summer Schools

I like to attend summer schools and (online) workshops in order to broaden my knowledge or refresh some old skills. Below is a timeline of selected workshops which I have followed in the past.

Jan 2026

Modern Python in Depth

Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany 🇩🇪

Online workshop.

Scientific computing Modern Python standard

Dec 2025

Core Modeling For Core Design

GRE@T-PIONEeR @ Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 🇸🇪

One week course on-site at Chalmers. Learned the principles of probabilistic and deterministic methods for steady-state core modelling, applied to reference calculations, operations and safety analysis.

Reactor physics Nuclear engineering

Sep 2025

ENEN2+ Nuclear Summer School

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary 🇭🇺

Participated in a week summer school at the BME Training reactor in Budapest, on scholarship from the European Nuclear Education Network. Experiments were focused on the principles of reactor physics; determining neutron flux, criticality experiments, and operations.

Reactor physics Experimental physics

Jun 2025

High-performance Computing with Python

Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany 🇩🇪

Online workshop.

HPC Parallelization Scripting

Jun 2025

Intermediate Bash and Linux

HPC2N, Umeå University, Sweden 🇸🇪

Online workshop.

grep Sed and AWK Bash scripting

Mar 2025

Bayesian Statistical Learning

Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany 🇩🇪

Online workshop.

MCMC PyMC3 Supercomputer usage

Mar 2025

Programming with Fortran

Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany 🇩🇪

Online workshop.

Arrays Subroutines Derived Types I/O Performance considerations

Feb 2025

Code & Collaborate: The FAIRytale of Software Development

EPFL CECAM & BioNT, Switzerland 🇨🇭

Online workshop.

Git (CLI) Continuous Integration Code Documentation