Today, Allah Rakha and Dani Gallart, two PhD students from our fusion group under the supervision of ICREA Prof. Mervi Mantsinen, exposed and defended their PhD research plans at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain.
The examination panel was composed of two fusion experts from Fusion for Energy (F4E) and one professor from UPC. After 30 minutes of exposition and a round of questions for each of the PhD students they both received green light to continue with their studies.
Allah Rakha works on fast ions physics and Alfven eigenmodes while Dani Gallart devotes his studies to plasma heating with ion cyclotron resonance frequency (ICRF) waves.