Heidbrink's Former and Current Ph.D. Students


  • Hau Duong , Studies of fast ion confinement in the DIII-D Tokamak, graduated c. 1994, currently employed by Nanostream (biomedical research and development).
  • Emil Ruskov , Studies of fast ion confinement in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor using beam "blips", graduated c. 1996, currently employed by TriAlpha Energy (fusion research).
  • Ed Carolipio , The effect of Helical Field Perturbations on Energetic Ion Confinement in the DIII-D Tokamak, graduated 2000, currently employed by Boeing (navigation research and development).
  • Jing Fang , Studies of Second Harmonic Generation in semiconductor processing, graduated c. 2000, currently employed by Intel (semiconductor research and development).
  • George Watson , Ion species mix and ion density measurements using radio frequency waves, graduated 2003, currently employed by L3 (military research and development).
  • Liangji Zhao , Measurements of classical transport of fast ions in the Large Plasma Device, graduated 2004, currently employed by FarTech (fusion research).
  • Yadong Luo , Thesis: Fast-ion D-alpha diagnostic on DIII-D, graduated 2007, currently employed by Tri Alpha Energy (fusion research)
  • Yang Zhang , Thesis project: Fast ions and shear Alfven waves, graduated 2008, currently employed by UC Irvine (engineering research)
  • Erik Trask , Thesis project: Propagation of lower hybrid waves in a field reversed configuration plasma.
  • Wayne Harris , Thesis project: Ion flow measurements and plasma current analysis in the Irvine Field Reversed Configuration, graduated 2009, currently employed by the University of Wisconsin (fusion research).
  • Deyong Liu , Thesis project: Fast-ion studies in the National Spherical Torus Experiment: Transport by instabilities and acceleration by high harmonic fast waves, graduated 2009, currently employed by the University of Wisconsin (fusion research).
  • Thomas Roche , Thesis project (preliminary): Research in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies on the Irvine FRC.
  • Christopher Muscatello, Thesis project (preliminary): Fast-ion transport by the sawtooth instability in the DIII-D tokamak.
  • Shu Zhou, Thesis project: Fast-ion transport by drift-wave turbulence in the Large Plasma Device.
  • Nathan Bolte, Thesis project (preliminary): FRC research.