Past Staff
Edward Hinson
Position title: Assoc. Scientist
Email:
ehinsone
Project: Plasma material interaction with 3-D plasma boundaries – experimental assessment and development of novel 3-D modeling approaches. Work funded under DoE grant DE-SC0020284.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Florian Effenberg
Position title: Post Doctoral Researcher
Email:
feffenbe
Project: Investigation of impurity transport and line radiation in the 3D plasma edge of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator with EMC3-Eirene.
New occupation: Post doctoral researcher at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
Thierry Kremeyer
Position title: Post Doctoral Researcher
Email:
Thierry.kremeyer
Project: Impurity exhaust and particle balance with the island divertor at W7-X, funded by DoE grant DE-SC00014210.
New occupation: Experimental Researcher at Wendelstein 7-X
Tullio Barbui
Position title: Post Doctoral Researcher, Assistant Scientist
Project: Development of novel methods of quantitative spectroscopy in the plasma edge of Wendelstein 7-X.
New occupation: Post doctoral researcher at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
Graduate Students
David Cinquerani
Position title: Graduate Student
Project: Line ratio spectroscopy for determination of electron density and temperature in the edge of fusion plasma.
New occupation: U.S. Navy
Florian Effenberg
Position title: Graduate Student
Email:
feffenbe
Project: Investigation of impurity transport and line radiation in the 3D plasma edge of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator with EMC3-Eirene.
New occupation: Post doctoral researcher in 3D-PSI group
Ian Waters
Position title: Graduate Student
Email:
waters19
Project: Modeling of neutral exhaust and impurity transport with 3D magnetic control fields at NSTX-Upgrade (funded by DoE under grant DE-SC0012315)
New occupation: Post doctoral researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Jonathan Green
Position title: Graduate Student
Email:
jonathan.d.green
Project: Understanding plasma build up and density formation in helicon plasmas (funded by NSF under grant PHY-1455210)
New occupation: Researcher at BlueIm Camera Data Systems, Georgia
Ryan Norval
Position title: Graduate Student
Email:
norval
Project: Neutral Particles and as Energy Sink in the Madison Symmetric Torus (funded by DoE under DE-FC02-05ER54814, “Reversed Field Pinch Research in MST.”)
New occupation: Intel
Victoria Winters
Position title: Graduate Student
Email:
Victoria.winters
Project: Impurity Sourcing and Transport in the Island Director at Wendelstein 7-X (funded by DoE under grants DE-SC00014210 and DE-SC00013911 and 14210)
New occupation: Post doctoral researcher atMax Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany
Danah Velez
Position title: Research Assistant
Email:
davelez
Project: Development of an absorbing plasma material interface with low erosion characteristics for the Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror Experiment (WHAM), supported by DoE grant DE-AR0001258 and Research Forward.
Erik Flom
Position title: Research Assistant
Email:
erflom
Project: The Helium Beam Edge diagnostic at W7-X. Funded by DoE under grant De-SC00014210.
Undergraduate Students
Jacob Dwinell
Position title: Undergraduate Student
Project: Construction of a B-Dot probe to measure the magnetic field in a helicon plasma.
Ian Joda
Position title: Undergraduate Student
Project: Fast imaging of laser material ablation from an impurity test target for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator
Patrick Leonard
Position title: Undergraduate Student
Project: Quantitative spectroscopy on the high-density helicon plasma MARIA