My primary goal as a researcher is to pursue novel and impactful studies that will advance the understanding of magnetic confinement fusion towards widespread commercial application. Along these lines, I collaborate with private companies and publicly-funded user facilities across the globe on a broad array of topics ranging from detailed physics experiments to whole-device modeling to the development and implementation of control and optimization schemes.
I hold several active research leadership roles beyond my own funded projects, including: project lead for fusion power plant design at Maritime Fusion; lead for ARC tokamak pulse design at Commonwealth Fusion Systems; working group leader for the EU/US negative triangularity collaboration; and former project lead for implementing negative triangularity plasmas on the MAST-U tokamak in the United Kingdom. My collaborators span private industry (General Atomics, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Tokamak Energy, Next Step Fusion, Kyoto Fusioneering, Maritime Fusion) and public research institutions (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, MIT, UKAEA, and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics).
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