22.06.2020

What became of ...

Florian Laggner, former PhD student at TU Wien (Institute for Applied Physics).

After finishing his PhD in May 2017 he startet with his new position at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. The PPPL press release of 16 June gives a good insight into his current work: A proven method for stabilizing efforts to bring fusion power to Earth.

The goal is to mitigate edge localized modes (ELMs), which can halt fusion reactions and damage tokamaks.