Per Helander
Per Helander (* 1967 in Umeå ) is a Swedish physicist. He is the grandson of the theologian Dick Helander and the cousin of the anthropologist Bernhard Helander. He is also related to the economist Sven Helander and the painter Viktor Helander .
Life
Helander studied physics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg . After receiving his doctorate in 1994 on the dynamics of fast ions in tokamak-type fusion experiments and a research stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , USA, he joined the theory department of the Culham Science Center near Culham , Great Britain, as a research assistant in 1996 ( EUROfusion ). At the same time he was an adjunct professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg from 2002 to 2005.
In 2006 he was appointed as a Scientific Member at the IPP branch in Greifswald, where he heads the " Stellarator Theory " department. At the same time he was appointed to a chair for theoretical plasma physics at the University of Greifswald . His research interests are in the physics of stellarators and tokamaks , especially kinetic theory, as well as general questions of plasma physics . He heads the team that provides the mathematical basis for the experiments with the Wendelstein 7-X experiment system .
Web links
- Official website of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (with selected publications)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life path according to the official website of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
- ↑ With Physik durch die Welt , Ostsee-Zeitung, July 24, 2015, accessed on August 13, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Helander, Per |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish physicist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Umeå |