Luca Guazzotto, PhD
Education
Laurea Nuclear Engineering Politecnico di Torino (Torino, ITALY) 2000
MS Mechanical Engineering University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) 2002
PhD Mechanical Engineering University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) 2005
Professional Experience
- Professor, Auburn University, 2023-present
- Associate Professor, Auburn University, 2014-2023
- Assistant Professor, Research, University of Rochester, 2012-2014
- Visiting Scientist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, 2010-2014
- Research Associate, University of Rochester, 2008-2012
- Research Associate, CNR, Istituto Gas Ionizzati RFX, 2007-2008
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005-2007
Innovation
Research Interests
- Numerical equilibrium of tokamak plasmas with flow, 2003-present
- Stability of tokamak plasmas with flow, 2006-present
- Resistive wall modes, 2005-present
- Analytic tokamak equilibrium, with and without flow
- Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of plasma flow in tokamaks, 2008-2015
- Two-fluid effects on equilibria with flow, 2011-present
- Two-fluid effects on stability of equilibria with flow, 2014-present
- Ignition and burning plasma macroscopic analysis, 2016-present
- Machine learning and applications to stellarator disruptions, 2021-present
- Anisotropic dust interactions in the PK-4 experiment, 2022-present
Engagement
- BEST Robotics competition judge for high school and middle school students, four times.
- This Is Research, Auburn University student research judge, twice.
- State Science Olympiad judge, 2019.
- Greater East Alabama Regional Science and Engineering Fair judge, 2017, 2019 and 2021.
