Egemen Kolemen is a Professor at Princeton University’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department, with a joint appointment at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). He currently serves as the director of the Sustainable Energy Program. Kolemen is a recipient of the David J. Rose Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award and the American Nuclear Society’s Technical Accomplishment Award, and he is an ITER Scientist Fellow. His research integrates engineering and physics to analyze and enhance the feasibility of economically viable fusion reactors. He leads machine learning and real-time diagnostics control for several fusion devices including KSTAR, NSTX-U, and DIII-D. Additionally, he directs the liquid metal divertor and low-temperature diagnostics laboratories. On the theoretical side, his group works on the development of software for stellarator optimization and economical analyses of fusion reactors.
Princeton University • Princeton, NJ
Professor at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department, with a focus on engineering physics analysis for fusion energy.