Hartmut Zohm

Hartmut Zohm (born November 2, 1962 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German plasma physicist.

Zohm received his doctorate in 1990 from the University of Heidelberg and from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching. The dissertation Investigation of Magnetic Modes in the ASDEX Tokamak received the Otto Hahn Medal in 1991 . As a post-doctoral student , he was with General Atomics in San Diego . In 1996 he completed his habilitation 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 department. In 2003 he became an honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

With his department at the ASDEX Upgrade (and at the Jet ), he researches plasma states ( tokamak scenarios ), removal of energy, particle control including the removal of helium ash and control of edge instabilities (Edge localized modes) for an optimal operation of ITER and the planned ones Successor DEMO .

In 2014 he was awarded the American Physical Society's John M. Dawson Prize for Plasma Physics . In 2016 he and Sergei Bulanow received the Hannes Alfvén Prize “for their experimental and theoretical contributions to the development of the next stage of large-scale devices for researching high-temperature plasmas” (laudation).

Fonts

Magnetohydrodynamic Stability of Tokamaks, Wiley-VCH 2014, ISBN 978-3527412327
ASDEX Upgrade Team, EUROfusion MST1 Team: Recent ASDEX Upgrade Research in Support of ITER and DEMO, Nuclear Fusion 55, 104010 (2015)
On the minimum size of DEMO, Fusion Science and Technology 58, 613 (2010)
with others: Control of MHD instabilities by ECCD: ASDEX Upgrade results and implications for ITER, Nuclear Fusion 47, 228-232 (2007)
with others: Experiments on Neoclassical Tearing Mode stabilization by ECCD in ASDEX Upgrade, Nuclear Fusion 39, 577-580 (1999)
Edge localized modes (ELMs), Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 38, 105-128 (1996)
Dynamic Behavior of the LH Transition, Physical Review Letters 72, 222-225 (1994)
with others: Plasma Angular Momentum Loss by MHD Mode Locking, Europhysics Letters 11, 745 (1990)

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Website of the tokamak scenario group

personal data
SURNAME	Zohm, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German plasma physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 2nd, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freiburg in Breisgau

[1] Website of the tokamak scenario group