Matthew Stoneking

Position: Professor of Physics

Affiliation: Lawrence University

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Matthew Stoneking is Professor of Physics at Lawrence University, a small four year college in Appleton, Wisconsin. His research on electron plasma confinement in a purely toroidal magnetic field has been supported by grants from Research Corporation, the US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. Matt’s undergraduate degree is from Carleton College in Minnesota. He got his PhD at the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he measured magnetic fluctuation-induced particle transport using a retarding field energy analyzer probe in the edge region of the MST reversed-field pinch. He taught for one year at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater before returning to the MST group for a post-doc. His post-doctoral research included work on the MST Thomson scattering system and on a study of the scaling of fluctuations and confinement with the Lundquist number. He has been at Lawrence University since 1997. He has been on the program committee for the International Workshop on Non-neutral Plasmas, chairing that committee in 2008 and will host that meeting in Appleton, Wisconsin next summer. In 2015, he spent a sabbatical at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, working on calculations for the Thomson scattering diagnostic on the W7-X Stellarator and on the APEX project which aims to produce the world’s first magnetically confined electron-positron plasma.