Minh-Quảng Trần (born in Saigon (Vietnam) on 30 May 1951[1]) is a professor at the EPFL.
Minh Quang Trần | |
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 Trần in 2010 | |
| Born | 30 May 1951 (age 73) |
| Alma mater | EPFL |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Plasma physics |
He graduated in physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in 1973, where he did his doctoral thesis in 1977, and where he has worked as a professor since 1980. He works at the Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), with the Tokamak à configuration variable.
He was nominated Leader of EFDA (the European Fusion Development Agreement),[2] the organisation which manages JET (Joint European Torus), the largest fusion experiment in the world, sited in England. It also supervises numerous technology programmes in Europe in support of ITER, the international experimental fusion reactor project, as well as research for future industrial reactors.
Notes and references
edit- ^ Minh Quang Tran, biography at epfl.ch
- ^ Professor Minh-Quang Tran has been nominated Leader of EFDA (the European Fusion Development Agreement). Archived 18 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
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