Curriculum vitae for Jan Egedal
Born
University education:
September
1990 - March 1995:
Student at The
Spring 1993: On leave at JET Joint
Undertaking,
October 1994
- March 1995: Master thesis, partly at JET Joint
Undertaking and at The Technical University of Denmark,
Project: Relativistic wave interaction in plasmas.
Supervisors: Dr. H. Bindslev (JET/Oxford) and Dr. M. Samuelsen (DTU).
June 1995 –
July 1998: D.Phil. (Ph.D.) student at
Qualifications:
April 1995: Master of Science from the
July 1998: D.Phil. degree in experimental plasma physics from
Awards:
June 1995 –
July 1998: Awarded a Category 20 Madam Currie
fellowship under the European human mobility act. The award funded living
expenses as well as direct expenses associated with my studies for a D. Phil. degree
at
Professional experience
1991 - 1994: Assistant tutor of classical mechanics at the Technical University of Denmark.
January 1994: At JET to implement a neural network for the analysis of data from the Collective Thomson Scattering diagnostic.
July - September 1994: Summer student at the CERN particle accelerator. Worked on systematic errors in measurements of the polarization of the target in the NA47 experiment.
July 1998 – October 2000: Post. Doc. at MIT PSFC working for A. Fasoli and M. Porkolab. Preparing and running the magnetic reconnection experiments in the VTF plasma device.
November 2000 – August 2005 Research scientist at MIT PSFC. Managing the magnetic reconnection experiments in the VTF plasma device.
September 2005 – : Assistant professor in the Physics Department at MIT.
Publication list
Journal
papers (published
papers can be downloaded at www.psfc.mit.edu/vtf/jegedal/jegedal.htm)
Egedal J and Bindslev H, “Topology of
relativistic refractive index surfaces for electron cyclotron waves”, (1994) Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 36, 543.
Hoekzema J, Bindslev H, Egedal J, Fessey J, Gatcombe C, Hammond N, Hughes T, Machuzak
J, Oosterbeek J, Roberts P, Stevens A and Stott P,
“First Results of Collective Scattering on JET”, (1997) Rev. Sci. Instrum.,
68, 275.
Machuzak J, Woskov P, Fessey J, Hoekzema J, Egedal J, Bindslev H, Roberts P,
Stevens A, Davies P, Gatcombe C and Hughes T, “Linewidth measurements of
the JET energetic ion and alpha particle CTS diagnostic gyrotron”, (1999)
Rev. Sci Instrum., 70, 1155.
Egedal J, Machuzak J, Fessey J, Bindslev H, Hoekzema J, Hughes T, Davies P, Gatcombe
C and Woskov P, “Calibration of the JET energetic ion
and alpha particle CTS diagnostic receiver”, (1999) Rev. Sci. Instrum.,
70, 1167.
Bindslev H, Hoekzema J, Egedal
J, Fessey J, Hughes T and Machuzak
J, “Fast-Ion Velocity Distribution in JET Measured by Collective Thomson
Scattering”, (1999) Phys. Rev. Lett., 83,
3206.
Egedal J, Fasoli A, Porkolab
M and D Tarkowski, “Plasma generation and confinement
in a toroidal magnetic cusp”, (2000) Rev. Sci. Instrum., 71,
3351.
Egedal J, “Drift Orbit Topology of Fast Ions in Tokamaks”,
(2000) Nuclear Fusion, 40, 1597.
Egedal J, Fasoli A, D Tarkowski
and A Scarabosio, “Collisionless
magnetic reconnection in a toroidal cusp”, (2001) Physics of Plasma, 8, 1935.
Egedal J and Fasoli A, “Single-particle
dynamics in collisionless magnetic reconnection”, (2001) Phys. Rev. Lett., 86, 5047.
Bindslev H, Porte L, Hoekzema
A, Machuzak J, Woskov P,
Van Eester D, Egedal J, Fessey J and Hughes T, “Fast ion collective Thomson
scattering, JET Results and TEXTOR plans”, (2001) Fusion Engineering and Design, 53,
105.
Egedal J and Fasoli A,
“The topology of guiding center orbits in a linear magnetic cusp”, (2001) Physics of Plasmas, 8, 4042.
Egedal J, “A drift kinetic approach to
reconnection in an open cusp plasma”, (2002) Physics of Plasmas, 9, 1095.
Egedal J, Fasoli A and
Nazemi J, “Dynamical Plasma Response during Driven
Magnetic Reconnection”, (2003) Phys. Rev.
Lett. 90, 135003.
Egedal J, Redi MH, Darrow DS and Kaye SM, “Efficient evaluation of beam ion
confinement in spherical tokamaks”, (2003) Physics of Plasmas 10, 2372.
Egedal J and Bindslev
H, “Reconstruction of Gyrotropic Phase-space
Distributions from 1D Projections”, (2004)
Physics of Plasmas, 11, 2191.
Shadman K, Egedal
J, and Childs R, “An
experimental study of the gridded electromagnet probe”, (2004) Physics of Plasmas, 11, 2236.
Egedal J, Fox W, Porkolab M, Fasoli A, “Experimental
evidence of fast reconnection via trapped electron motion”, (2004) Physics of Plasmas, 11, 2844.
Michelsen S, Korsholm SB,
Bindslev H, Meo F, Michelsen PK, Tsakadze EL, Egedal J, Woskov P, Hoekzema JA, Leuterer F, Westerhof E, “Fast ion millimeter wave collective Thomson
scattering diagnostics on TEXTOR and ASDEX upgrades”, (2004) Rev. Sci. Instrum., 75,
3634.
Egedal J, Fox W, Belonohy
E and Porkolab M, “Kinetic simulation of the VTF
magnetic reconnection experiment”, (2004) Computer Physics Communications, 164, 29.
Egedal J, Øieroset M,
Fox W, and Lin RP, “In situ discovery of an electrostatic potential, trapping
electrons and mediating fast reconnection in the Earth’s magnetotail”,
(2005) Phys. Rev. Lett.
94, 025006.
Egedal J, “The orbit averaged particle source from neutral beam
injection in tokamaks”, (2005) Nuclear Fusion, 45, 184.
Egedal J, Bindslev H, Budny RV, and Woskow P, “Impact of
beam ions on a-particle measurements
by Collective Thomson Scattering in ITER”, (2005) Nuclear Fusion,
45, 191..
Egedal J, Fox W, Porkolab M, Fasoli A,
“Global eigen-mode response to driven magnetic
reconnection”, (2005) Physics of
Plasmas, 12, 052107.
Invited
talks at international conferences
Egedal J, (Oct
2000) “Fast Magnetic Reconnection in a Toroidal
Magnetic Cusp”, 42nd Annual APS Division of Plasma Physics meeting,
Egedal J (Jun 2003) “Laboratory Observation of Fast Collisionless
Magnetic Reconnection”, 7th International Workshop on the Interrelationship between Plasma
Experiments in Laboratory and Space (IPELS),
Egedal
J, (Oct 2003) “Laboratory Observation of Fast Collisionless
Magnetic Reconnection”, 45th Annual APS Division of Plasma Physics meeting,
Egedal J, (Nov 2003) “Laboratory Observation of Fast Collisionless Reconnection”, 5th US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic reconnection, Plasma Merging, and Magnetic Jets, MR2003, Catalina Island, California.
Egedal J, (May 2004) “Laboratory Experiments with Connections to Space Plasmas”, APS
April Meeting, May 1-4, 2004 in
Egedal J (July 2005) “Reconnection experiments with guide field”, 8th International Workshop on the
Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space (IPELS),
General contributions
at international conferences
Hoekzema J, Bindslev H, Egedal
J, Fessey J and Hughes T, (Dec 1995) “Collective
Thomson Scattering Using a Gyrotron from JET
Plasmas”, LAPD-7,
Hoekzema J, Bindslev H, Egedal J, Fessey J, Gatcombe C, Hammond N, Hughes T, Machuzak
J, Osterbeek J, Roberts P, and
Stott P, (1995) “First Observations of Collective Thomson Scattering
from JET Plasmas”, EPS Bournemounth.
Bindslev H, Egedal J, Fessey
J, Hoekzema J and Hughes T (August 1996) “Collective
Thomson Scattering of Millimetre Waves in JET”, 3rd Internatonal Workshop on Strong Microwaves in Plasma,
Egedal J, (September 1997) “Large-Banana-Width
Effects in the Thermalization of Alpha- Particles in
JET”, Fifth IAEA Technical Committe Meeting on Alpha
Particles in Fusion Research, JET Joint Undertaking,
Fasoli A, Egedal
J and Tarkowski D, (August 1999) “Driven magnetic
reconnection in a toroidal magnetic cusp”, IPELS,
Egedal J, Fasoli A, Fuchs O, Ramanan P, and Tarkowski D, (November 1999) “Production of plasma in Toroidal Magnetic Cusp for collisionless reconnection experiments”, 41st Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, Seattle, WA.
Egedal J, Fasoli
A, Porkolab M, Tarkowski D and Scarabosio
A, (Feb 2000) “A Toroidal Magnetic Cusp Plasma for Collisionless Reconnection Experiments”, MR2000 (Magnetic
Reconnection in Space and Laboratory Plasmas)
Fasoli A, Egedal J and Tarkowski
D, (June 2000) “Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection
in a Toroidal Magnetic Cusp”, EPS 27th Conference on
Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics
Egedal J, Fasoli
A, and Nazemi J, (May 2001) “Single Particles
Dynamics in Collisionless Reconnection”, American
Geophysical Union, Spring meeting,
Fasoli A, Egedal J, and Nazemi
J, (June 2001) “Laboratory Observations of Collisionless
Magnetic Reconnection”, 28th EPS Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma
Physics,
Egedal J, Fasoli A, Nazemi
J, (July 2001) “An Experimental Study of Collisionless
Magnetic Reconnection”, IPELS,
Egedal J, Fasoli
A, and Nazemi J, (Oct 2001) “Collisionless
Reconnection in the Versatile Toroidal Facility”, 43rd
Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics,
Redi M, Darrow D, Kaye S, White R and Egedal J, (April 2002) “Calculations of Neutral Beam Ion Confinement for the National Spherical Torus Experiment”, The 2002 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, Rochester, NY.
Korsholm SB, Bindslev H, Egedal J, Hoekzema JA, Leuterer F, Michelsen PK, Tsakadze E and Woskov P, (Nov 2002) “Fast Ion Millimeter Wave CTS Diagnostics on TEXTOR and ASDEX”, 44th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Orlando, Florida.
Egedal J, Nazemi J, Dorris J, Ptacek E, Fasoli A,and Porkolab M, (Nov 2002) “Experimental study of collisionless
magnetic reconnection in VTF”, 44th Annual Meeting of
the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Orlando, Florida.
Dorris J, Egedal J, Nazemi J, Ptacek E, Fasoli A,and Porkolab M, (Nov 2002) “New hybrid probe for
characterization of the electron pressure tensor in the VTF reconnection
experiment”, 44th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of
Plasma Physics, Orlando,
Florida.
Egedal J, Porkolab M, Fox W, Dorris J, and Fasoli A, (April 2003) “Laboratory Observation of Fast Collision-less
Magnetic Reconnection”, APS spring meeting 2003, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Egedal J (Jun 2003), “A laboratory Study of Collisionless
Reconnection”. Presentation at the 2003
Summer Workshop on “Magnetic Reconnection” at the
Korsholm SB, Bindslev H, Egedal J, Hoekzema JA, Leuterer F, Meo F, Michelsen S, Michelsen PK, Tsakadze E and Woskov P, (Oct 2003) “Implementation of Fast Ion Millimeter Wave CTS Diagnostics on TEXTOR and ASDEX Upgrade”, 45th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Dorris J, Egedal J, Fox W, Shadman K, Porkolab M, Fasoli A, (Oct 2003) “Specialized probe measurements characterizing ion flows and electron distributions during magnetic reconnection in VTF”, 45th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Fox W, Egedal J, Dorris J, Porkolab M, Oieroset M, and A. Fasoli (Oct 2003) , “Laboratory study of Fast Collision-less Magnetic Reconnection, relevant to recent satellite observations in the Earth’s magnetotail”, 45th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Egedal J, Bindslev H, and Woskov
P, (Oct 2003) “Calculation of
beam ion distributions in ITER and their impact on alpha-particle measurements
by collective Thomson scattering”, 45th Annual
Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics,
Fox W, Egedal J, and Porkolab M, (Nov 2004) “Magnetic Reconnection: studies of collisionless
momentum balance near an X-line with a guide magnetic field”, 46th Annual
Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics,
Egedal J, Fox W, and Porkolab M, (Nov 2004) “Laboratory
Study of Fast Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection in
the New VTF Closed Magnetic Configuration”, 46th Annual Meeting of the APS
Division of Plasma Physics,
Korsholm SB, Bindslev H, Meo F, Michelsen PK, Michelsen S, Nielsen SK, Tsakadze E, Egedal J, Woskov PP, Hoekzema J, Leuterer F, Westerhof E, “Fast Ion Millimeter Wave CTS Diagnostic Installation Activities on TEXTOR and ASDEX Upgrade”, 46th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Savannah, Georgia.
Reports
& Proposals funded
Egedal J, (1995), “Wave interaction in a relativistic plasma”, Master
Thesis, Technical University of Denmark.
Egedal J, (1998), “Fast ions in Tokamaks and their Measurement by Collective
Thomson
Scattering”, Ph.D. Thesis,
Porkolab M and Egedal J (2003) "Experimental Study of Collisionless Reconnection Processes in Plasmas”.