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Amitava Bhattacharjee is a Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Princeton Center for Heliophysics, collaborating with NASA and the National Science Foundation on Space Weather research. As the founding Director of the Simons Foundation collaboration on Hidden Symmetries in Stellarators, he directs research efforts on DOE's Hi Fidelity Stellarator (HiFiStell) collaboration focusing on stellarator simulations. Bhattacharjee's academic journey includes a Ph.D. from Princeton in theoretical plasma physics and previous appointments at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, and the University of New Hampshire. He is recognized as a Senior Editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics and has held significant positions within the American Physical Society. His research interests include magnetic reconnection, singularity formation, and the dynamics of laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasmas, reflected in over 250 authored papers.
Princeton University • Princeton, NJ
Teaching and conducting research in the field of Astrophysical Sciences.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.