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…
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: electron beam mapping of magnetic fields on MUSE
Current Project: Stabilizing rotational modes in a field-reversed configuration
Current Project: Fundamental physics of strongly emitting sheaths in low temperature plasmas
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
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: 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: Discovering hidden soliton symmetries in QS using a machine learning approach.
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: 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: Error field correction in the permanent magnet stellarator prototype
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: Extended theory of field penetration at the resonant layers with higher order viscous effects.
Current Project: Tearing and Mirror instabilities related effect in current sheet formation
Himawan Wicaksono Winarto, also commonly known as Hima, joined the program in 2018 after graduating from the Physics program of the very same university. Before coming to Princeton, Hima grew up and live in Malang, Indonesia. He is…
Current Project: minor ion heating in the solar wind in the presence of a helicity barrier