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Hi, I am Romain THOMAS

Romain THOMAS

I am a research assistant at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, working on the Regime Shift DataBase and OpenAlex Analysis. I am looking for a new opportunity mixing sustainability and IT starting from October 2024.

IT skills

Experiences

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Stockholm Resilience Centre

Feb 2023 - Present

Stockholm, Sweden

Research assistant

Aug 2023 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Adding case studies from the scientific literature to the Regime Shift DataBase
  • Creation of a form with React and an API with FastAPI (Python)
  • Definition of the data structure with JSON Schema and migration of the existing data
  • Programming utility tools to explore the database in Python and R, and validate the data against the JSON schema
  • Exploring machine learning models and topic modelling techniques to classify articles about regime shifts
  • Co-organization of the Stockholm Resilience Center coding club and workshops facilitation
  • Contributions to the Python library for OpenAlex PyAlex
Internship

Feb 2023 - Jul 2023

Responsibilities:
  • Creation of a Python library and a web app to download, analyse and plot metadata of scientific articles from OpenAlex
  • Analysing the sustainability sciences landscape with bibliometric data

Phaselab Instruments

Feb 2021 - Jul 2022

Troyes, France

Junior engineer

Aug 2021 - Jul 2022

Responsibilities:
  • Working with researchers and PhD students to create small SPR systems (Surface Plasmon Resonance)
  • Electronic circuit design: creation and assembly of PCBs
  • Firmware programming in C on STM32
Internship

Feb 2021 - Jul 2021

Responsibilities:
  • Image and signal processing in Python with an embedded camera
  • Prototyping with 3D printers and a CNC router
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Troyes, France

Civic service

Sep 2019 - Feb 2020

Responsibilities:
  • Ambassador of the “cordées de la réussite” for 6 months. This is a program that aims to encourage and help underprivileged pupils to continue their studies.

Education

Master in Sustainability
Engineering and management of the environment and the sustainable development:
Life cycle assessment and eco conception of a solar panel installation, Corporate Social Responsibility pre-diagnosis in a local company, material flow analysis, general knowledge in green IT and low tech.
Networks and telecommunications
Engineering degree specialized in embedded systems and internet of things:
Skills development in computer science and embedded electronics (programming, circuit board design, sensor networks…), Linux systems, networks and signal processing.

Projects

OpenAlex Analysis
2023 - Present

A python library to download, analyse or plot articles, institutions, and other entities data from the OpenAlex API.

PyAlex
2023 - Present

Contributions to the Python library for OpenAlex PyAlex.

Bibliotech
2024 - Present

A framework to explore and analyse scientific articles: from PDF files, extract the full-text, enrich the metadata with OpenAlex, and add each paragraph to an Elasticsearch database. Kibana is used to provide the web interface. Fully based on open-source software and available on GitHub.

Realization of educational projects
2018 - 2022

Creation and organization of various workshops for middle and high school students through several events (science festival, middle or high school workshops…): low tech initiation, wireless programmable robot with scratch…

Indoor localization
2022

AI-based project where we created and trained our own model to localize a computer in a room with the WiFi signal. It was programmed in Python using TensorFlow.

Volunteering

Elected student

At the governing boards, discussing and voting the strategy and the budget of the institution. In relation with each stakeholder, we helped to develop the European project EUt+ and argued for more gender equality and sustainability in both research and teaching.

Technical expert for student organizations
UTT 2017 - 2021

Helping students to realize their projects in the maker space of the university. I made the electronics and programming of the robots for the French robotic cup. As well as for IT, I became a referent for questions and repairs relating to 3D printing. During this time, I participated to develop the maker space by finding funds and managing the organization as president.

Board member
UTT alumni 2023 - present

Involved in the project pass mobilité plus, aiming to facilitate low carbon mobility for students. We are providing Interrail passes to students and helping them with the trip planning.