He currently holds a Jean d’Alembert Chair (Paris-Saclay) at the Laboratory for Plasma Physics of Ecole Polytechnique. After his doctoral thesis completed in 2004 at the Free University of Brussels, he worked at Ecole Centrale Paris on the prediction of nonequilibrium radiation phenomena for the ESA Huygens probe, and then at Stanford University and NASA Ames Research Center on the development of high-fidelity engineering tools for the manned space exploration program. In 2010, he founded a research team at VKI supported by the European Research Council, focusing on the development of complex multiscale and multiphysics models and numerical methods for reacting and plasma flows. Prof. Magin and his team aim at studying both fundamental principles and technological aerospace applications, in collaboration with space agencies and industries.