Current Project: Studying ion energization in FLARE using ion doppler tomography.
Sofia is from Metro Detroit and earned her undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics with a minor in Space Science from the University of Michigan in 2024. While there, she discovered an interest in space physics and computational modeling…
Kendra grew up in Roseville, Minnesota and got their undergraduate degrees in Physics and Math at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. While there, they became interested in computational physics and space plasma physics. Their time as a student of space physicists Prof. Cindy Cattell and Prof. Lindsay Glesener taught them how impactful…
Current Project: Applications of Symplectic Neural Networks in Plasma Theory
Nicholas graduated from the Australian National University where he was both a student and mathematics tutor before moving to Princeton. His interest is in topological and geometric methods in theoretical plasma physics.
Nirbhav Singh Chopra entered the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics in 2018 after receiving undergraduate degrees in Engineering Physics and Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Nirbhav works with Dr. Yevgeny Raitses in the Laboratory for Plasma Nanosynthesis and on the …
Current Project: Nonlinear Saturation of Ballooning Modes in Stellarators.
Current Project: Stabilizing rotational modes in a field-reversed configuration
Current Project: Accessing stable high performance regimes on the DIII-D tokamak using machine learning prediction and control.
Current Project: Temperature separation in high energy density plasma.
Harry graduated from Harvey Mudd College (HMC) in 2020 with a degree in physics. On the side, he dabbled in "pretengineering" and various campus activities. He tutored for physics courses in the HMC core sequence, organized outreach events for…
Current Project: Energetic particles and rational surfaces in stellarators.
Current Project: Fast stellarator coil design methods and coil complexity proxy.
Current Project: Magnetic Reconnection in Laser-produced Plasmas.
Current Project: Kinetic sheath models for chemically complex processing plasmas.
Suying Jin (김소영) joined the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics in 2018, after graduating from UCLA.
Current Project: investigation of parallel plasma flow in the W7-X stellarator using XICS diagnostic measurements
Current Project: Particle-Push Feedback and Integration in a Discontinuous Galerkin Vlasov-Maxwell Code
Current Project: Utilizing ML-based control on DIII-D to prepare for diagnostically-challenged environments in future fusion reactors
Josh is a plasma physicist-in-training originally from Branford, CT (right outside New Haven, the indisputable pizza capital of the world). Prior to coming to Princeton, he earned a…
Sierra Jubin grew up in Fort Collins, Colorado, and received her undergraduate degree in physics from Williams College in 2017. She joined the Princeton Plasma Physics Program in the fall of that year, and her main research interests lie in the field of low temperature plasma physics.
Sierra spent her first year in the program…
Current Project: Neoclassical transport in open field lines in tokamaks.
Euichan (의찬) was born and grew up in South Korea. He graduated from Seoul National University with both his undergraduate and master’s degrees, majoring in nuclear engineering. He studied MHD instabilities in a university-scale tokamak called…
Current Project: transport modeling & optimization of stellarators and tokamaks
Current Project: Heating and transport in the MUSE stellarator
Jacob Kiviat graduated from Cornell University in 2024 with a degree in Engineering Physics and a minor in Mathematics. He spent three years as a research assistant at the Cornell Laboratory of Plasma Studies (LPS) working under Professor David Hammer…
Current Project: Particle-in-Cell (PIC) Simulations of High-Energy-Density Plasmas.
Current Project: Turbulence in negative triangularity stellarator plasmas.
Jessica Li grew up in Frederick, MD and completed her undergraduate degree in Applied Physics with a minor in Computer Science at Columbia University in 2018. While there, she worked on numerical modeling of torsatron devices as part of the…
Dingyun Liu grew up in Wuhan, China, and she had her undergraduate education at University of Science and Technology of China. In the same year she received a bachelor's degree in applied and engineering physics, she joined the 2019 cohort of the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics. A summer program at UCLA in 2018 stimulated her…
Current Project: Using Casimir invariants to investigate generalized entropy production in collisionless plasmas.
Rishin arrived at Princeton in 2023 after graduating from the University of Oxford, having studied Physics and Philosophy for three years and Theoretical Physics for a fourth year. At Oxford, he…
Current Project: Proof-of-principle experiments and simulations exploring electrodeless Magnetic Reconnection Thrusters.
Kush joined the plasma physics program in 2022 after graduating with an undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics and Astrophysics from UC Berkeley. For his first and second year project,…
Current Project: propagation of slow modes in collisionless high beta plasmas
Current Project: Studying Quantum-Classical Correspondence in Plasmas via Structure-Preserving Geometric Algorithms
Jacob was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada and graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2022 with a degree in physics and minors in mathematics and philosophy. His research interests include…
Current: Project: Quantum Computing for Plasma Physics.
Michael Quackenbush May graduated from Williams College with degrees in physics and religion in 2017. Between college and graduate school, he received an M.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh and taught high school physics in the Bronx for a year. He…
Current Project: Magnetic reconnection in laser-produced plasmas
Brendan McCluskey grew up outside of Chicago, IL and completed his undergraduate degree in physics at Georgia Tech. After interning at the National Ignition Facility for the summers of 2022 and 2023, he became interested in the fields of high-energy…
Current Project: Energy Spectrum of Lost Alpha Particles in a Magnetic Mirror.
Current Project: modeling project related to LTX
Current Project: Effects of geometry on turbulence in tokamaks and stellarators.
Current Project: Topological properties of electromagnetic waves in vacuum and plasma.
Eric Palmerduca graduated Valedictorian of Colgate University in 2017 with a major in physics and a minor in math. During his time in undergrad he was active in computational research in both nuclear physics and neuroscience.
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Current Project: electron energy analyzer for experiments in astrophysical magnetic reconnection
Current Project: Electron holes in laboratory and space plasmas evolve as quasi-stationary functions of the parallel adiabatic invariant.
Nicholas Pham graduated from UC Riverside with degrees in chemical engineering and applied physics.
Current Project: particle acceleration and microturbulence due to magnetically driven reconnection using laser-powered capacitor coils
Current Project: investigating Lithium transport using GX turbulence simulations
Current Project: particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection
Current Project: Gyrokinetics of high-field magnetic mirrors
Current Project: Investigation on the anomalous ion transport and plume divergence of plasma thrusters.
Current Project: Neoclassical transport in strong gradient regions in tokamaks.
Silvia entered the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics in 2022. She previously graduated from Ulm University (BSc Physics, 2019) and Oxford University (MSc Theoretical Physics, 2020). She started her PhD in Theoretical Plasma Physics in…
Current Project: MHS, geometric optics, topological waves
I'm from Houston Texas. I did my undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin in physics and mathematics. I'm primarily interested in the mathematical questions of plasma physics.
Current Project: Alpha Channeling in Cylindrical Plasmas
Benjamin graduated from UCLA in 2024 with degrees in physics and mathematics where he was the E. Lee Kinsey graduating senior.
Current Project: Extended theory of field penetration at the resonant layers with higher order viscous effects.