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Head of U.S. ITER project named IEEE Fellow
Oak Ridge, TN, 15 February 2007: Ned Sauthoff,
an Oak Ridge physicist leading the U.S. role in a global fusion energy project,
has been named a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics
Engineers.
Sauthoff, honored for his work in plasma physics
and fusion energy, heads the U.S. portion of ITER, a joint effort by China, the
European Union, India, Japan, South Korea, the Russian Federation and the United
States to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion energy.
ITER, Latin for "the way," will be sited in
Cadarache, France. The U.S. ITER Project Office is located at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory.
Sauthoff received his bachelor's degree in
physics and master's degree in nuclear engineering from MIT in 1972 and his
Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University in 1975.
At Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Sauthoff
conducted research on plasmas, a super-hot, gas-like substance confined by
magnetic field generators, or tokamaks, inside a fusion reactor. He also led the
design of control and data systems for the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor and
headed the lab's Computer Division, Princeton Beta Experiment, and Experimental
Projects, Physics, and Plasma Science and Technology departments.
Prior to establishment in 2006 of the U.S. ITER
headquarters at ORNL, he headed PPPL's Off-Site Research Department, where he
managed fusion research on leading facilities around the world.
Sauthoff has served as President and
Vice-President for Technology Policy for IEEE-USA. He is a fellow of the
American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of
Science.
More information on the U.S. and global ITER
effort is available at
https://www.usiter.org/ and
https://www.usiter.org/.
To learn more about the IEEE Fellows program, go
to:
http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/fellows/new-fellows.html.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle
for the Department of Energy.
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