Dr. Roger Jaspers

Biography

Roger Jaspers is an Associate Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and a part-time Professor at Ghent University in Belgium. His main areas of expertise include energetic particles in fusion plasmas, alternative fusion concepts, plasma physics, and the spectroscopic diagnosis of ion processes in fusion plasmas, particularly focusing on temperature, transport, flow, and fast particles. His current research emphasizes the development of spectroscopic methods to diagnose ion populations in fusion plasmas, with special attention to fusion-born energetic alpha particles. Roger's group collaborates with international fusion experiments such as W7-X in Germany, JET in the UK, and KSTAR in Korea. He leads the scientific R&D instrumentation development for the Charge-Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy (CXRS) system for ITER. A fusion aficionado since starting his PhD in 1991, Roger has been involved in organizing an interdisciplinary Fusion master program at TU/e since 2012 and is the chairman of the European network on fusion education: FUSENET. He also serves on the steering committee of the Erasmus Mundus Programme FUSION-DC and initiated the FusionAcademy. Roger spent 15 years seconded to FOM Rijnhuizen (currently DIFFER) and has undertaken short visits to JET, primarily studying relativistic electrons, spectroscopy, MHD, and transport. He is a key member of the executive board of ITER-NL, collaborating with NRG, TU/e, TNO, and FOM. Roger has authored over 90 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals covering topics such as relativistic electrons, energy transport, magneto-hydro-dynamics, and instrumentation development, and regularly contributes to leading journals, conferences, and workshops.

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