Christian Theiler receives an SNSF Eccellenza Grant
Christian Theiler © Alain Herzog, EPFL
Christian Theiler, tenure-track assistant professor at the Swiss Plasma Center, was awarded an Eccellenza Grant for his project 'Alternative divertors for improved tokamak operation'.
The Swiss National Foundation’s Eccellenza Grants aim at “researchers in all disciplines who have recently been appointed as tenure-track assistant professors at a Swiss higher education institution.” They are given each year to “highly qualified young researchers who aspire to a permanent professorship.” The goal is to support these scientists in leading generously funded research projects with their own team at a Swiss higher education institution.The Grants offer project funds up to 1,500,000 Swiss francs over five years.
“In fusion devices, such as tokamaks, the edge region of the magnetically confined plasma has to simultaneously assure good confinement of the core plasma and guarantee acceptable heat fluxes to the surrounding wall structures. We propose to use EPFL’s Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) to explore alternative magnetic geometries of the tokamak edge region, a promising path to develop a robust tokamak edge solution.”