Curriculum Vitae: Ben Dudson


York Plasma Institute
Department of Physics
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DQ
United Kingdom
benjamin.dudson@york.ac.uk
www-users.york.ac.uk/~bd512/
+44 (0) 1904 32 2229

Reader (Associate Professor) in plasma physics, Department of Physics, University of York. My research area is magnetic confinement fusion, particularly tokamaks.

I have led development of the BOUT++ plasma simulation code for 10 years, and been involved in experiments on the Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST). I collaborate with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) USA, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) USA, General Atomics, USA and the Culham Center for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in the UK. My research is funded by the UK EPSRC, and the EUROfusion consortium.

I teach undegraduate lecture courses on mathematical techniques (3rd year), and computational methods (2nd year). I have taught courses on Magnetic Confinement Fusion (MSc/PhD), computational plasma physics (MSc/PhD), Fluid Dynamics (4th year), Environmental Physics (2nd year), and Programming (1st year Python, MSc/PhD python, C and Fortran). I currently supervise three PhD students, two Postdocs, and have six graduated PhD students.

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Year Establishment Description
October 2017 - Present University of York, UK Reader
October 2014 - October 2017 University of York, UK Senior Lecturer
April 2009 - September 2014 University of York, UK Lecturer in plasma physics
Feb 2007 - April 2009 University of York, UK Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, studying Explosive instabilities in tokamaks
Oct 2003 - Jan 2008 UKAEA Fusion, and Trinity college Oxford DPhil on "Edge turbulence in the Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak". Accepted April 2008, awarded the 2009 Culham thesis prize
Oct 1999 - June 2003 Imperial College London Physics MSci (1st)

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DPhil thesis Edge turbulence in the Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak Trinity college, University of Oxford. Accepted 28th April 2008

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