Samuel Lazerson

Position: Research Scientist

Affiliation: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory,

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Samuel Lazerson is a research scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, currently on assignment at the Wendelstein 7-X facility in Germany. Sam was awarded his Bachelors of Science in Engineering Physics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Dayton Beach in 2002. In 2010, he was awarded his Ph.D. in Space Physics from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. His dissertation focused on numerical simulations of dusty plasmas in the early proto-solar nebula. Sam has since worked on 3D MHD equilibrium reconstruction of the LHD and DIII-D device, is the current author of the stellarator optimization code STELLOPT, and is studying error fields and energetic particle confinement in the W7-X stellarator.