Tünde Fülöp — Biographical Profile
Primary Academic Discipline: Theoretical Plasma Physics|Active Research Era: Contemporary
Theoretical fusion plasma physicist; 2024 Hannes Alfvén Prize laureate for foundational work on runaway electrons, pellet ablation, and disruption mitigation in magnetic confinement.
- Chalmers University of Technology
Academic Career & Impact on Plasma Physics
Tünde Fülöp is a Professor of Physics at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, specializing in subatomic and plasma physics. Her theoretical contributions to magnetically confined fusion plasmas earned her the 2024 Hannes Alfvén Prize, shared with Per Helander of Max Planck IPP. Her primary research addresses runaway electrons in fusion plasmas — a major challenge in which electron currents accelerated by disruptions can cause catastrophic damage to tokamak walls. She has developed semi-analytical models for the pellet rocket effect and numerical characterizations of the runaway electron tail, results that directly inform safe operations of high-performance reactors like ITER and SPARC.
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