People

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…

Donald Spong
Theoretical/Computational Plasma Physicist
(Affiliate)

Donald Spong is a member of the Plasma Theory and Modeling Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and an unfunded collaborator in the “Simons Finding Optimum Magnetic Fields with Hidden Symmetries” project. His interests are in energetic particle confinement/instabilities in stellarators, and in 3D design optimization. Don was involved…

Georg Stadler
Professor of Mathematics
(Founding Principal Investigator)

Georg Stadler is a Professor of Mathematics at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Before joining New York University in 2014, he was a research scientist at the Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences at UT Austin. His research interests are in PDE-constrained Optimization, Computational Inverse…

Eve Stenson
Postdoctoral Fellow
(Affiliate)
Harold Weitzner
Professor of Mathematics Emeritus
(Co-Investigator)
Barbara Wohlmuth
Professor of Mathematics
(Advisory Board)
Adelle Wright
Staff Research Physicist
(Affiliate)

Adelle Wright is a Staff Research Physicist in PPPL’s Theory Department, working on theory development and numerical simulation of magnetically confined plasmas for fusion energy. Her current research focuses on nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and stellarator theory.

Caoxiang Zhu
Staff Research Physicist
(Affiliate)