Miklos Porkolab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics
Professor
Cambridge, Massachusetts
porkolab@psfc.mit.edu
Office:
(617) 253-8448
Bio/Research
Professor Miklos Porkolab received his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1967, and thereafter joined the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory where he rose to the position of Senior Research Physicist and Lecturer with the rank of Professor in the Astrophysical Sciences Department in 1975. In 1977, ...
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Bio/Research
Professor Miklos Porkolab received his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1967, and thereafter joined the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory where he rose to the position of Senior Research Physicist and Lecturer with the rank of Professor in the Astrophysical Sciences Department in 1975. In 1977, he joined MIT as a professor in the Physics Department and since then he has led several pioneering experiments in radio frequency heating and non-inductive current drive on the Versator II, and the Alcator C and C-Mod tokamaks. For this work, Professor Porkolab shared the 1984 American Physical Society Excellence in Plasma Research Award (now the John Dawson Award).
From 1991–2001 he served as Editor of Physics Letters A, Plasma Physics and Fluid Dynamics subsection.
Professor Porkolab is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2007 he was awarded The Karoly Simony Memorial Plaque and Prize by the Hungarian Nuclear Society. In 2009 Prof. Porkolab won the James Clerk Maxwell Prize of the American Physical Society. In 2010 Prof Porkolab was awarded the Fusion Power Associates Distinguished Career Award.
Since 1995 he has been the Director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT.
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From 1991–2001 he served as Editor of Physics Letters A, Plasma Physics and Fluid Dynamics subsection.
Professor Porkolab is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2007 he was awarded The Karoly Simony Memorial Plaque and Prize by the Hungarian Nuclear Society. In 2009 Prof. Porkolab won the James Clerk Maxwell Prize of the American Physical Society. In 2010 Prof Porkolab was awarded the Fusion Power Associates Distinguished Career Award.
Since 1995 he has been the Director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT.
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