Professional Experience

Cover photo credit: The NSTX-U “umbrella.” Photo: Elle Starkman/ PPPL Office of Communications

As a Research Physicist, I am now working on the LTX-β tokamak and is responsible for the magnetic diagnostics and turbulence and transport research. I joined the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in 2021. Prior to joining PPPL I worked as a research scientist in William & Mary and worked on pedestal and ELM physics in the DIII-D tokamak (A national fusion facility in San Diego, CA) and led several experiments there. Prior to that I worked for 15 years on the Indian tokamaks Aditya and SST-1 on a variety of topics like turbulence and transport, runaway suppression, disruption etc. During this time, I also collaborated with colleagues like Stewart Zweben and Ahmed Diallo at PPPL and worked on NSTX gas puff imaging (GPI) data. I received my PhD on experimental plasma physics in 2013 from Kyushu University, Japan while working on the spherical tokamak QUEST. I also worked in TEXTOR on charge exchange recombination and beam emission spectroscopy. I received the International Joint Research grant from the Research Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Japan for five consecutive years (2014-2018) for investigating turbulence and transport in the edge and scrape off layer of QUEST. Since 2015, I have been serving first as a constituent member and then as an expert for the Pedestal and Edge Physics (PEP) topical group of the International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) for facilitating research in ITER.