Curriculum vitae for Jan Egedal
Born 17 December
1969 in
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.
Stark
A, Fox W, Egedal J, Grulke O, Klinger T, “Laser-Induced Fluorescence
Measurements of the Ion-Energy-Distribution Function in a Collisionless
Reconnection Experiment” (2005) Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235005.
Stark
A, Egedal J, Fox W, Grulke O, Klinger T, “Phase-resolved measurements of ion
dynamics with laser-induced fluorescence” (2006) Physica Scripta. T122, 8.
Egedal
J, Fox W, Katz N, Porkolab M, Reim K, Zhang, “Laboratory observations of
spontaneous magnetic reconnection”, (2007) Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 015003.
Kesich
A, Bonde J, Egedal J, Fox W, Goodwin R, Katz N, and Le A, "Magnetic flux
array for spontaneous magnetic reconnection experiments", (2008) Rev. Sci. Instrum. 79, 063505.
Katz
N, Egedal J, Fox W, Le A, Porkolab M, "Experiments on the Propagation of
Plasma Filaments", (2008) Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 015003.
Egedal
J, Fox W, Katz N, Porkolab M, Øieroset M, Lin R P,
Daughton W, and Drake JF, "Evidence and theory for trapped electrons in
guide field magnetotail reconnection", (2008) J.
Geophys. Res., 113, A12207.
Fox
W, Porkolab M, Egedal J, Katz N, Le A, "Laboratory Observation of Electron
Phase-Space Holes during Magnetic Reconnection", (2008) Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 255003.
Egedal
J, Daughton W, Drake J F, Katz N, Le A, "Formation of a localized
acceleration potential during magnetic reconnection with a guide field.",
(2008) Submitted to Geophy. Rev. Lett.
Le A,
Egedal J, Daughton W, Fox W, Katz N, "The Equations of State for Collisionless Guide-Field Reconnection", (2009) Phys.
Rev. Lett. 102, 085001.
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,
Egedal J (July 2005) “Reconnection experiments with guide field”, 8th International Workshop on the
Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space (IPELS),
Egedal J (March 2006) “Spontaneous reconnection in a laboratory experiment” Harry Petschek Symposium on Magnetic, University of Maryland University College Inn and Conference Center College Park, Maryland, USA
Egedal J (April 2006) “Spontaneous reconnection in a laboratory
experiment”, 2006 APS April Meeting,
Egedal J (March 2008), “Collisionless
magnetic reconnection; a celestial phenomenon in the laboratory”, The US-Japan
workshop on magnetic reconnection 2008,
Egedal J (July 2008), “The Role of Trapped Electrons in Guidefield Reconnection”, CMSO-meeting 2008,
Egedal J (Nov 2008), “Experimental Investigation of Spontaneous
Magnetic Reconnection in the Laboratory”, 50th Annual Meeting of the APS
Division of Plasma Physics,
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”. Funded by NSF/DOE.
Egedal J (2005) “Laboratory studies of spontaneous collisionless
magnetic reconnection”,DOE
Junior Faculty Award.
Egedal J and Porkolab M (2006) "Laboratory studies of spontaneous reconnection”. Funded by NSF/DOE.