Area of research
Nuclear and High Energy Physics · Materials Chemistry
Research interest
Research interests include Magnetic confinement fusion research, Fusion materials and technologies, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, and Superconducting Materials and Applications.
Progress in pedestal and edge physics: Chapter 3 of the special issue: on the path to tokamak burning plasma operation
First experimental tests of a new small angle slot divertor on DIII-D
Discovery of stationary operation of quiescent H-mode plasmas with net-zero neutral beam injection torque and high energy confinement on DIII-D
Multi-device studies of pedestal physics and confinement in the I-mode regime
Stationary QH-mode plasmas with high and wide pedestal at low rotation on DIII-D
Pedestal Bifurcation and Resonant Field Penetration at the Threshold of Edge-Localized Mode Suppression in the DIII-D Tokamak
Improved understanding of physics processes in pedestal structure, leading to improved predictive capability for ITER
Role of Zonal Flow Predator-Prey Oscillations in Triggering the Transition to H-Mode Confinement
The EPED pedestal model and edge localized mode-suppressed regimes: Studies of quiescent H-mode and development of a model for edge localized mode suppression via resonant magnetic perturbations
Active spectroscopic measurements of the bulk deuterium properties in the DIII-D tokamak (invited)
Initial results of the high resolution edge Thomson scattering upgrade at DIII-D