People

Antoine Baillod
Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Antoine Baillod is a postdoctoral fellow with the Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics group of Columbia Engineering at Columbia University.

Nathan Duignan
Postdoctoral Associate
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Daniel Ginsberg
Postdoctoral Research Associate
(Postdoctoral Scholar)

Daniel Ginsberg is postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University, studying problems in fluid dynamics.

Andrew Giuliani
Research Scientist
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Sophia Henneberg
Staff Scientist
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Rogerio Jorge
Research Scientist
(Affiliate)

Dr. Rogerio Jorge is Research Scientist at IST, Lisbon, Portugal. He is currently the Principal Investigator of a EUROfusion’s Enabling Research Grant [link1, link2] and an FCT CEEC Grant at the Junior Researcher level, 2021 edition [link].  Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics,…

Nikos Kallinikos
Academic Fellow
(Affiliate)

Research Interests: Symmetry Theory of Differential Equations, Hamiltonian Mechanics, Plasma Physics, Integrable Systems, Soliton Equations

Nikos is now a Academic Fellow affiliated with:

Math Department, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Physics Department, International Hellenic University,…
Bahram Khalichi
Post Doctoral Fellow
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Jim-Felix Lobsien
Postdoctoral Associate
David Martinez-del-Rio
Research Fellow
(Research Fellow)

Dr David Martinez-del-Rio holds a PhD in Mathematics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is a Research Fellow at the University of Warwick under the supervision of Robert MacKay, working on the numerical implementation of converse KAM results for the characterization of magnetic flux surfaces in toroidal symmetry. His…

Shibabrat Naik
Research Fellow
(Postdoctoral Scholar)

Dynamical systems theory: Geometric and statistical methods of chaotic dynamics, Discovery of structures in phase space transport, Partial control of escape and transition dynamics, Phase space structures based control.

Data-driven methods: Transport barriers in atmosphere and ocean, Machine learning phase space structures, Reduced…

Elizabeth Paul
Assistant Professor
(Affiliate)

Dr. Elizabeth Paul uses theoretical and computational methods to study the magnetic confinement of plasmas for fusion energy sciences. Controlled fusion holds promise of providing a carbon-neutral, safe, and sustainable energy source. Her work focuses on the advancement of the stellarator magnetic confinement concept, a complex toroidal…

Zhisong Qu
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Gareth Roberg-Clark
Post Doctoral Fellow
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Eduardo Rodriguez
Postdoctoral Scholar
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Wrick Sengupta
Associate Research Scholar

My research explores the magnetic confinement of plasmas in various geometries. I use asymptotic methods to understand the interaction of nonlinearities and geometric factors in confined plasmas. Of particular interest to me is the study of magnetic fields with a hidden symmetry that hold promise for next generation stellarators. I am also…

Christopher Smiet
Scientist

Chris Smiet is a scientist at the Swiss Plasma Center in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is working with Joaquim Loizu on integrating measures of order and chaos in stellarator optimization. 

Chris received his PhD in 2017 from Leiden university. His Thesis, 'Knots in Plasma' received the Christiaan Huygens science award for most…