Alumni

Past Staff

Edward Hinson

Position title: Assoc. Scientist

Email: ehinsone@wisc.edu

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@pppl.gov

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@ipp.mpg.de

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@pppl.gov

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@llnl.gov

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@outlook.com

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@wisc.edu

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@ipp.mpg.de

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@wisc.edu

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@wisc.edu

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