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…
Current Project: Effects of resonant drag instability in planetary formation
Tingjing comes from Singapore and she joined the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics in 2024 after graduating from the University of Cambridge (BA & MSc Physics, 2023). Her interests lie broadly in astrophysical and fusion plasmas.
Current Project: Nonlinear plasma-wave interactions
Current Project: Investigating Lithium transport using GX turbulence simulations
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: Investigation of parallel plasma flow in the W7-X stellarator using XICS diagnostic measurements
Current Project: Implicit BGK collision operator for gyrokinetic simulation with moments conserving maxwellian.
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…
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…
Suying Jin (김소영) joined the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics in 2018, after graduating from UCLA.
Thesis: Modeling and Measurement of Fast Ion Losses in Wendelstein 7-X
Alex LeViness (pronounced luh-VINE-ess) matriculated into the program with the class of 2018. She grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Dallas, Texas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Columbus, Ohio. She attended The University of Alabama, where she majored in physics and…
Current Project: Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence in negative triangularity tokamaks
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…
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 designing…
Laura （张歆） came all the way from the other side of the "big pond" otherwise known as the Pacific ocean. Born and raised in the beautiful seaside city of Dalian, China, her life-long dream is to live in a city with water. There are no beaches in Princeton, so the Delaware canal will just have to do for now.
In 2012, Laura came to the…