“From Ignition on the National Ignition Facility to Fusion Energy on the Grid”
Dr. Debra (Debbie) Callahan is the co-lead for IFE Science at Focused Energy Inc. She joined Focused Energy after 35 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a physicist and associate division leader. She was part of the scientific leadership of the team that achieved ignition on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Laser.
“Progress in High Temperature Plasma Research on the Optimized Stellarator Device Wendelstein 7-X”
Prof. Dr. Thomas Klinger, studied physics at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel. After a research period in France he obtained his PhD in 1994 with a thesis on non-linear plasma dynamics. As a research assistant at the University of Kiel, Klinger was concerned with drift wave turbulence and nonlinear plasma structures. As visiting scientist, he conducted research at the Alfvén Laboratory in Stockholm, the Centre de Physique Théorique and the Université Aix-Provence in Marseille and Max-Planck-Institute of Plasma Physics in Garching.
“Magnetically-driven High Energy Density Physics: Fundamentals, successes and building on collaborations”
Dr Simon Bott-Suzuki earned an M.Sc. in Chemical Physics and then a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from the University of Sheffield in 1999 and 2004 respectively. His Ph.D. thesis concerned the experimental analysis and improvement of electrode emitter materials in deuterium lamps. He moved to Imperial College as a post-doctoral researcher in 2004 to work on experimental high energy density physics driven by pulsed power systems.