Jacob Kiviat

Pronouns
he/him
Position
2024
Role
Advisor: M. Zarnstorff/K. Hammond
Bio/Description

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 and Dr. Eric Sander Lavine on diagnostics (developing a magnetic probe array) and simulations (XMHD simulation for an astrophysical jet experiment) for experiments on the COBRA pulsed power generator.  During his time as an undergraduate, Jacob also worked for two summers as a SULI student at the PPPL under Dr. Yevgeny Raitses and Dr. Ivan Romadonov.  During the summer of 2022, he helped with the development of a confocal Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) diagnostic for measuring the ion velocity distribution function at multiple points in an ExB plasma source.  During the summer of 2023, he helped develop a long-distance microscope erosion imaging diagnostic for in-situ measurements of the erosion of Hall Thruster walls over time.  Jacob's current research interest is in magnetic confinement fusion and his current project is on the MUSE permanent magnet stellarator at the PPPL.