Dr. Josefine Proll

Biography

Josefine Proll is a part-time Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Science Education at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). She is passionate about solving the world's energy problem and focuses on the potential of nuclear fusion as a sustainable energy source. Her work primarily addresses the challenges of maintaining heat within fusion plasmas, which is crucial for successful fusion reactions. Among the primary issues in fusion research is the loss of heat due to transport phenomena and turbulence, which is currently regarded as a significant challenge for tokamak-type fusion devices like ITER, a large experimental reactor being built in southern France. In June 2024, Josefine will assume the role of group leader for stellarator transport modeling at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany. Her research investigates the instabilities that drive turbulence and their interactions, aiming to understand how to manipulate shapes of stellarators to reduce turbulence levels. Josefine holds a BSc in Physics from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and an MSc in Physics from Imperial College London, where she worked at the British fusion lab CCFE near Oxford. She completed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald and has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck/Princeton Center for Plasma Physics.

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