Fatima Ebrahimi Fatima Ebrahimi Title Principal Research Physicist Website Website Email [email protected] Bio/Description Fatima Ebrahimi is a Principal Research Physicist at the PPPL Theory Department and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University. She has over 20 years of experience in extended MHD theory and high-performance computations with broad applications to laboratory fusion and astrophysical plasmas, as well as successful experience working with experimentalists at major university and national laboratories (including NSTX-NSTX-U, MST, Madison dynamo experiment, and the Princeton Magnetorotational Instability (MRI) experiment). Her main research interests and contributions include theory and applications of plasmoid-mediated reconnection in new areas of plasma physics (e.g. startup current drive in fusion plasmas, space propulsion, and nonlinear edge localized modes in tokamaks), direct large-scale dynamo field calculations and subsequent major computational contributions for the experimentally observed Standard MRI, this also include the discovery of a new global magneto-curvature mode in differentially rotating systems. Ebrahimi is the inventor of the concept for a plasma thruster utilizing fast magnetic reconnection for the first time (Journal of Plasma Physics 86, Issue 6, 2020, the most read article in JPP). Ebrahimi earned her BS, MS from Tehran Polytechnic and her Ph.D from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Selected Publications ORCID Related News Using artificial intelligence to speed up and improve the most computationally intensive aspects of plasma physics in fusion PPPL wins three major DOE awards for supercomputing fusion projects Research reveals how plasma swirling around black holes can produce heat and light New concept for rocket thruster exploits the mechanism behind solar flares