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David J. McComas Princeton Vice President for PPPL
Steven C. Cowley Laboratory Director
Craig R. Ferguson Deputy Director for Operations
Jonathan E. Menard Deputy Director for Research
Michael C. Zarnstorff Laboratory Chief Scientist
Andrew P. Zwicker Head, Office of Communications and Public Outreach
Cover image: Depiction of fusion research on a tokamak enhanced by artificial intelligence. Depiction by Eliot Feibush and Julian Kates-Harbeck.
Larry Bernard Communications Director
John Greenwald Editor and Writer
Jeanne Jackson DeVoe Contributor
Raphael Rosen Contributor
Elle Starkman Photographer
Chris Cane Digital Strategy and Visual Communication
Additional photos and imagery courtesy General Atomics, General Electric, Korean National Fusion Research Institute, Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, National Energy Research Scientific Computing, David Pfefferlé, Shaun Haskey
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