Dmitri A. Mossessian
Massachusetts Institute of technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
175 Albany St. NW17-180
Cambridge MA 02139
Tel: (617)-253-0885
Fax: (617)-253-0627
E-mail: mossessian@psfc.mit.edu

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 3, 1966.

Education: Graduated Leningrad State University, Department of Physics,
Leningrad, Russia, in 1989 as physicist, specializing in lasers and plasma physics.

Ph.D. in physics in 1992. A.F.Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Thesis title: "Thomson scattering diagnostics of an expanding laser produced plasma"

1996 - present: Research Scientist, MIT Plasma Fusion Center 
  • Responsible for Thomson scattering diagnostics in ALCATOR C-MOD Tokamak
  • Experimental study of the physics of high confinement mode edge transport barrier
  • Tokamak edge MHD stability studies based on results of high resolution edge Thomson scattering measurements and numerical simulations
1995 - 1996: Post Doctoral Fellow in the Optics Group, Synchrotron radiation Center (SRC),
University of Wisconsin Madison 
  • Optical design and commissioning of a new undulator beamline at SRC. 
  • Experimental study of magnetic structures in the lattice of the storage ring as sources of infrared radiation. 
  • Experiments on study of the resonant Auger processes in gases on high flux high resolution x-ray beamline at SRC. 
 1993 - 1994  Post Doctoral Fellow in the Experimental System Group,
Advanced Light Source (ALS), Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
  • Work with high resolution x-ray Transmission Grating Spectrometer (TGS) for characterization of the ALS radiation. 
  • Diagnostic measurements of two ALS undulators (U5.0 and U8.0). 
  • Commissioning of the undulator beamlines dedicated to material science and atomic and molecular physics. 
  "Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Outstanding Performance Award" for the year of 1994.
  1989 - 1992 Graduate Student in A.F.Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 
St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • Experiments on investigation of collisional and radiational processes in laser produced plasma. Numerical calculations of the population distribution of the excited levels of multicharged ions in the plasma. Soft x-ray laser plasma spectroscopy. 
  • Developed Thomson scattering diagnostic technique for time resolved measurements of the local values of density and temperature of the fast expanding laser produced plasma. 
  • Participated in experiments on creation of a high power density pulsed x-ray source using a combination of the laser produced plasma and a multilayer mirror.
  • Participated in design and construction of a soft x-ray polichromator based on multilayer mirrors.