• Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
• Institution: University of California, Irvine, Department of Physics & Astronomy
• Term: January 2009 - November 2010

During my postdoctoral assignment at UC Irvine I worked for Prof. W. W. Heidbrink on energetic ion research in tokamaks. This work centers on activities at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego, California.

Publications

• M.A. Van Zeeland, J.H. Yu, W.W. Heidbrink, N.H. Brooks, K.H. Burrell, M.S. Chu, A.W. Hyatt, C. Muscatello, R. Nazikian, N.A. Pablant, D.C. Pace, W.M. Solomon, and M.R. Wade. “Imaging key aspects of fast ion physics in the DIII-D tokamak,” Nucl. Fusion 50, 084002 (2010).

Conferences

• Invited Talk at 11th IAEA Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Devices, Kyiv, Ukraine, September 21 - 23, 2009:
  “Observation of Energetic Ion Transport due to Microturbulence and Comparison with Gyrokinetic Simulations”
  [Web Summary], [Presentation (PDF, 11MB)]