Steven C. Cowley

Position
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Role
Director, PPPL
Office Phone
Education

B.A., Physics, ​Oxford University, ​1981

M.A., Astrophysical Sciences, ​Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University, ​1983

Ph.D., Astrophysical Sciences, ​Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University, ​1985

 

Bio/Description

Research Interests:

  • Fusion Theory, Space and Astrophysical Plasmas, Energy Policy

 

Awards & Honors (selected)

  • Knight Batchelor, Queen’s Birthday Honours​, 2018
  • Honorary Fellowship, Institute of Engineering and Technology​, 2015​
  • Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering​, 2014​
  • Fellow the Royal Society​, 2014​
  • Glazebrook Medal of the Institute of Physics​, 2012​
  • Honorary Professor University of York​, 2009​
  • Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK​, 2004
  • Fellow American Physical Society​, 1998
  • Physics Department Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA​, ​1993, 96, 97, 2006
  • Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor Fellowship from Princeton University​, 1984-85
  • Harkness Fellowship​, 1981-83​
  • Scholarship from Corpus Christi College, Oxford University​, 1978-81​

Teaching

  • APC 503/AST 557 Analytical Techniques in Differential Equations
Selected Publications

Over 158 publications including 23 Physical Review Letters. Google scholar page:
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zJrztlwAAAAJ&hl=en