Emmanuel Lanti

Emmanuel Lanti is a Lecturer and HPC Applications Specialist at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), affiliated with the School of Engineering and the Center for Research and Fundamental Studies (SCITAS). His work focuses on plasma physics, computational methods for gyrokinetic simulations, and high-performance computing (HPC) optimization in tokamak research environments.

• Research Areas: Plasma physics, fusion energy, electromagnetic turbulence, nonlinear dynamics of Alfven modes, and HPC applications in particle-in-cell (PIC) code development.
• Technical Expertise: Global gyrokinetic simulations, parallel computing architectures, numerical methods for plasma confinement, and wave-particle interaction analysis.

Lanti's recent publications emphasize advancements in:

• Modeling tokamak plasmas with nonadiabatic chirping-frequency Alfven modes (2023)
• Optimizing computational strategies for electromagnetic turbulence simulations (2022)
• Developing numerical tools for burning plasmas and open-field-line configurations (2021-2019)
• Validating gyrokinetic code performance on many-core and GPU-accelerated systems (2016-2018)

His work bridges plasma theory with practical code implementation, targeting improved understanding of magnetic confinement and turbulence in fusion devices. Key methodologies include:

• Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations
• Hybrid kinetic electron models
• Pade approximation techniques
• Parallel computing optimizations