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Fusion research is an ongoing, worldwide effort to meet the demand for clean energy resources with a ubiquitous fuel source. There are several paths being explored to achieve fusion, one of which has been successfully demonstrated by the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in December 2022 using laser driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF). However there are further challenges to be addressed to optimise yields and this talk will present some exciting questions being researched by both the ICF and MagLIF communities.
Bio:
Dr. Ellie Tubman graduated with a master’s degree in physics from the University of Sussex, UK. She went on to the University of York, UK, completing her PhD in 2016. She then took subsequent post-doctoral positions within the Magpie pulsed power group at Imperial College London from 2017-2019 and at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on the National Ignition Facility 2020-2023. In April 2023 Ellie took up a position at Imperial College London as a lecturer in experimental high-energy-density plasma physics before joining UC Berkeley as an assistant professor in August 2023.
