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Assistant Professor Jack Hare graduated with class honors in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2011, followed by a master’s degree in Plasma Physics from Princeton University in 2013. His Ph.D. research at Imperial College London, supervised by Professor Sergey Lebedev, focused on the MAGPIE generator and studied magnetic reconnection in high-energy-density laboratory plasmas. He received his doctorate in 2017 and completed postdoctoral appointments at Imperial College (2017-2019) and the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany (2019-2020). In 2021, he started a new research group based on the PUFFIN pulsed-power generator at MIT and moved to Cornell University in 2025. His research interests include understanding the processes that move energy within plasmas, the dynamics of astrophysical objects, and the stabilization and control of plasma in fusion power plants. He studies magnetized shocks, magnetic reconnection, and magnetized turbulence, creating plasmas in the laboratory using intense pulses of electrical current to heat thin wires into a plasma state. He also teaches courses in plasma physics, plasma diagnostics, controlled fusion, electromagnetism, and circuits.
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