Hartmut Zohm
Born (1962-11-02) November 2, 1962 (age 61)
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
NationalityGerman
EducationHeidelberg University, Max Planck Institute (Ph.D.)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPlasma physics
Thesis (1990)
Websitewww.ipp.mpg.de/ippcms/de/for/bereiche/e1

Hartmut Zohm (born 2 November 1962) is a German plasma physicist who is known for his work on the ASDEX Upgrade machine.[1][2] He received the 2014 John Dawson Award[3] and the 2016 Hannes Alfvén Prize[4] for successfully demonstrating that neoclassical tearing modes in tokamaks can be stabilized by electron cyclotron resonance heating,[5][6] which is an important design consideration for pushing the performance limit of the ITER.[1][2]

Zohm is currently at the Max Planck Institute for Physics, and an Honorary Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[7]

Early life and career

Zohm received his doctorate in 1990 from Heidelberg University and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany. His doctoral thesis "Investigation of Magnetic Modes in the ASDEX Tokamak" received the Otto Hahn Medal in 1991.[citation needed] He was a post-graduate student at General Atomics in San Diego, California. In 1996, he habilitated in experimental physics at the University of Augsburg and was professor for electrical engineering and plasma research at the University of Stuttgart from 1996 to 1999. He has been a scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics since 1999 and heads the Tokamak scenario research area. In 2003, he became an honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

With his department at the ASDEX Upgrade (and JET),[8] he researches plasma states (tokamak scenarios), energy dissipation, particle control including the removal of helium ash and the control of edge instabilities (edge localized modes) for optimal operation of ITER and DEMO.[9][10][11][12]

Honors and awards

Zohm is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society.[13]

In 1991 his doctoral thesis Investigation of Magnetic Modes in the ASDEX Tokamak received the Otto-Hahn-Medal.

In 2014, he received the American Physical Society's John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research for "the theoretical prediction and experimental demonstration of neoclassical tearing mode stabilization by localized electron cyclotron current drive".[3]

In 2016, he and Sergei Bulanov received the Hannes Alfvén Prize from the European Physical Society for "their experimental and theoretical contributions to the development of large-scale next-step devices in high-temperature plasma physics research".[4]

Books

References

  1. ^ a b H. Zohmthe ASDEX Upgrade Team; the EUROfusion MST1 Team (2015). "Recent ASDEX Upgrade research in support of ITER and DEMO". Nuclear Fusion. 55 (10): 104010. Bibcode:2015NucFu..55j4010H. doi:10.1088/0029-5515/55/10/104010. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0027-AA06-1. ISSN 0029-5515. S2CID 124339322.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b Zohm, H; Gantenbein, G; Leuterer, F; Manini, A; Maraschek, M; Yu, Q; Team, the ASDEX Upgrade (2007). "Control of MHD instabilities by ECCD: ASDEX Upgrade results and implications for ITER". Nuclear Fusion. 47 (3): 228–232. Bibcode:2007NucFu..47..228Z. doi:10.1088/0029-5515/47/3/010. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0027-052E-5. ISSN 0029-5515. S2CID 21666846.
  3. ^ a b "2014 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Alfvén Prize | European Physical Society – Plasma Physics Division". Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  5. ^ Zohm, H; Gantenbein, G; Giruzzi, G; Günter, S; Leuterer, F; Maraschek, M; Meskat, J; Peeters, A.G; Suttrop, W; Wagner, D; Zabiégo, M (1999). "Experiments on neoclassical tearing mode stabilization by ECCD in ASDEX Upgrade". Nuclear Fusion. 39 (5): 577–580. doi:10.1088/0029-5515/39/5/101. ISSN 0029-5515. S2CID 250791805.
  6. ^ Paola Mantica; Richard Dendy; Sylvie Jacquemot (25 November 2016). "43rd European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 59 (1): 010101. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/59/1/010101. ISSN 0741-3335.
  7. ^ "Hartmut Zohm". mpg.de. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  8. ^ "Tokamak-Szenario-Entwicklung". www.ipp.mpg.de (in German). Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  9. ^ Zohm, H (1996). "Edge localized modes (ELMs)". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 38 (2): 105–128. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/38/2/001. ISSN 0741-3335. S2CID 250774421.
  10. ^ Zohm, H. (1994). "Dynamic behavior of the L-H transition". Physical Review Letters. 72 (2): 222–225. Bibcode:1994PhRvL..72..222Z. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.72.222. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10056090.
  11. ^ Zohm, Hartmut (2010). "On the Minimum Size of DEMO". Fusion Science and Technology. 58 (2): 613–624. Bibcode:2010FuST...58..613Z. doi:10.13182/fst10-06. ISSN 1536-1055. S2CID 118759732.
  12. ^ Zohm, H; Kallenbach, A; Bruhns, H; Fussmann, G; Klüber, O (1990). "Plasma Angular-Momentum Loss by MHD Mode Locking". Europhysics Letters (EPL). 11 (8): 745–750. Bibcode:1990EL.....11..745Z. doi:10.1209/0295-5075/11/8/009. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0027-6544-0. ISSN 0295-5075. S2CID 250852354.
  13. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 23 March 2020.

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