Landreman, Matt
Associate Research Scientist
Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics
3369 A.V. Williams Building
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
BACKGROUND
Dr. Landreman studied at Swartmore College and Oxford University, and received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011. He has been a member of IREAP since 2013.
Dr. Landreman studies the role of symmetry in magnetically confined plasmas, using both theory and high-performance computing. Much of his group's work concerns the stellarator, a plasma trap that uses magnetic fields with carefully designed shaping. The stellarator is a candidate configuration for fusion energy, as well as a general charged particle trap. Other research interests include plasma turbulence, optimization, and adjoint methods.