Oak Nelson

Position: Associate Research Scientist

Affiliation: Columbia University

Email: a.o.nelson@columbia.edu

ORCID: None

Research Website: http://oaknelson.com

Oak is a young plasma researcher currently a postdoc at Columbia. He completed his PhD work at Princeton University. He hopes to continue fusion research after graduate school with a focus on teaching and education. Oak was the chair of the Princeton Plasma graduate student committee and is engaged in several diversity and outreach programs, working actively to combat the gender- and race-related inequalities in our field and to make fusion and plasma research accessible to all.