EPS-PPD PhD Research Award
The EPS Plasma Physics Division Board has pleasure in announcing four winners of its 2018 PhD Research Award. These were selected on the basis of their outstanding PhD theses, which were among many submitted for evaluation by Professor Stefano Atzeni (University of Rome 1) and Professor Hartmut Zohm (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching), in a process co-ordinated by Professor Carlos Silva (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon) for the EPS-PPD Board. Each winner receives a prize of one thousand euros, together with the opportunity to give an oral presentation at the 45th Annual EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, to be held in Prague in early July.
The winners (in alphabetical order of surname) are:
- Matteo Falessi of Roma Tre University, for his thesis on “Gyrokinetic theory for particle transport in fusion plasmas”, supervised by Fulvio Zonca;
- Jack Hare of Imperial College London, for his thesis on “High energy density magnetic reconnection experiments in colliding carbon plasma flows”, supervised by Sergey Lebedev;
- Adrien Leblanc of the University of Paris-Saclay, for his thesis on “Plasma mirrors and plasma gratings under ultra-intense laser illumination: high-order harmonic generation, and relativistic electron beams”, supervised by François Amiranoff;
- Wei Zhang of Ghent University, for his thesis on “Plasma edge modeling with ICRF coupling”, supervised by Jean-Marie Noterdaeme.
