Recently, we have been honoured to receive a visit by Dr. Sergei Sharapov from Culham Center for Fusion Energy, UK, to BSC under the Severo Ochoa mobility programme. Sergei visited us for two weeks from the 23rd of October to the 3rd of November, 2017 to collaborate on the modelling of Alfvenic instabilities in the TJ-II discharges.
During his stay he also delivered a Severo Ochoa Research Seminar entitled “Magnetic nuclear fusion and fast ion driven Alfvén instabilities” in the UPC-Nord Campus organized by BSC.
Dr Sergei Sharapov is Principal Research Scientist at Culham Science Center, UK. He has more than 35 years of expertise in theoretical and experimental plasma physics research in multidisciplinary environments, of which more than 23 years at Joint European Torus (JET, UK) and more than 20 years on START and MAST (CCFE, UK).
His areas of expertise are acceleration and diagnostics of energetic particles in magnetic plasma devices, energetic particle-driven instabilities, MHD spectroscopy, neoclassical instabilities, nonlinear kinetic theory of wave-particle interaction and nonlinear waves. He is the developer of numerical MHD spectral codes of the MISHKA series with capabilities for studies of Alfvén eigenmodes and MHD instabilities in realistic axisymmetric magnetic field configurations. Dr. Sharapov has authored more than 150 papers in refereed journals, including several invited review papers.
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