Robert Hager

Title
Research Physicist
Bio/Description

Dr. Robert Hager is a staff research physicist in the PPPL Theory Department. His main research interests are neoclassical-turbulent self-organization and transport in the edge of tokamak fusion plasmas, kinetic effects of 3D magnetic fields, kinetic-kinetic multi-scale coupling of neoclassical and turbulence codes for accelerated time advancement, and extreme-scale high-performance computing. He is one of the main authors and maintainers of the global, gyrokinetic total-f particle-in-cell code XGC (xgc.pppl.gov). Besides his research activities, Robert Hager is responsible for training and support of XGC users. Before joining the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in 2012, Robert Hager obtained a diploma in solid state physics from the University of Augsburg, Germany, in 2007 and a doctorate in plasma physics from the Technical University Munich, Germany, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics, in 2011. After graduation, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany, from 2011-2012. During his time at the University of Augsburg, he was a fellow of the German National Academic Foundation.

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