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Appendix D: Committee Member Biographical Information
Appendix D: Committee Member Biographical Information
Pages 406-414
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Dr. Kushner has served in several national and international leadership roles, including editor-in-chief of Plasma Sources Science and Technology, and served on several National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine studies, including the last plasma science decadal survey.
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K Birdsall Award, IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award, Semiconductor Industry Association University Research Award, and election to the National Academy of Engineering.
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, an organized research unit at UCLA. His research focuses on experimental studies of fundamental processes in magnetized plasmas and is motivated by current issues in magnetic confinement fusion energy research and in space and astrophysical plasmas including magnetic reconnection, turbulence and transport in magnetized plasmas, and the nonlinear physics of Alfvén waves.
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She served three terms on the executive committee of the IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Committee and has served as the technical program chair or co-chair for the IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, and 2021. She also served a 4-year term on the IEEE Nuclear Plasma Sciences Society administrative committee.
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She is also a member of the advi sory committee of IEEE's Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. She has served on several APS committees, including fellowship committees of DAMOP and DPP, and chaired Women in Plasma Physics Committee of the DPP.
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degree from Swarthmore College in 1997, and received the APS Apker Award and Swarthmore Elmore Prize for work on Spheromak plasma magnetic equilibria. He is a fellow of the APS DPP and a recipient of the society's Dawson award and of two LBNL Outstanding Performance awards.
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and the Institute of Physics and was the recipient of the Electrochemical Society Young Author Award, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Tegal Plasma Thinker Award, and the Plasma Prize of the Plasma Science and Technology Division of the AVS. He was named the Lam Research Distinguished Chair in Semiconductor Processing at UC Berkeley for 2011-2016.
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He has also served on the advisory committees for the United States's major user facilities for magnetic fusion research. He is the current president of the University Fusion Association, and he is one of the co-chairs for the APS DPP Community Planning Process.
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Over the years, his work has become centered in basic plasma physics where his group conducts experimental plasma physics research on dusty (complex) plasmas, magnetized plasmas and plasma diagnostic development -- with an emphasis on the particle, wave, and energy transport in LTPs.
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