J. Loizu receives the European Physical Society PhD Research Award
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The Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society awarded the PhD Research Award to Joaquim Loizu in recognition of his outstanding PhD thesis on ‘The role of the sheath in magnetized plasma turbulence and flows’.
At the last European Physical Society (EPS) conference on Plasma Physics, Joaquim Loizu was honored with the PhD Research Award. The laudatio was ‘Joaquim Loizu's thesis work brings significant analytical and also numerical insight into the coupling between the plasma edge and turbulent transport in tokamaks. His results, through the derivation of a complete set of boundary conditions to supply the sheath physics to fluid codes, leading to the discovery of a novel mechanism for spontaneous co-current rotation and flow reversal and the elucidation of the effect of the limiter on the scrape-off layer, are of fundamental and of applied significance. His theory turns out to be consistent with data from Torpex and also from tokamaks and is of importance for ITER operation.’
Joaquim Loizu did his PhD thesis work at the CRPP under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Ricci. The Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society grants annually up to four prizes to young scientists from the 38 European countries associated with the EPS in recognition of truly outstanding research achievements associated with their PhD study in the broad field of plasma physics.