Research

Stellarators

Confining plasma with carefully shaped magnetic fields

Quasisymmetry

A hidden symmetry of magnetic fields that enables confinement

Magnets

Designing the shapes of electromangetic coils and other magnets to realize stellarators

Collisional transport

Predicting flows of particles, heat, and electric current in magnetized plasmas

Plasma turbulence

Understanding nonlinear dynamics of plasma oscillations

Optimization & shape derivatives

Rethinking the way stellarator design is formulated

We are members of the Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy collaboration. Our group’s research is funded by grants from the United States Department of Energy, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and The Simons Foundation.