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Professor Shumlak completed undergraduate work at Texas A&M University and obtained a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. After finishing his graduate degree, he became a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Air Force Phillips Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he wrote MACH3, a 3-D time-dependent magnetofluid code for non-ideal plasmas in complex geometries. He joined the University of Washington after leaving the Phillips Lab and maintains close ties to the Air Force Research Lab. Shumlak is actively involved in research and has been invited to speak at numerous international conferences. He has won numerous awards for teaching, research, and mentoring. Professor Shumlak is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He co-founded Zap Energy, a spin-out company from UW that develops commercial fusion applications. His research areas include plasma physics, theoretical and computational plasma modeling, innovative magnetic plasma confinement for fusion energy, and electric propulsion.
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