I’m a theoretical plasma physicist working on the problem of getting Magnetic Confinement Fusion going.

The challenge is this: how do you keep a boiling turbulent 10 million ºC mass of hydrogen caged long enough to generate some energy?(Don’t worry about safety... if anything goes wrong it just cools down and goes “phut”... not very dramatic!)

For more of my physics work, please see my Publications. If you want to know more about fusion in general, have a look at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy Website.

When, on occasion, I emerge blinking into the world, I play the French Horn in the Oxford Philharmonic, write novels (none published yet) and reminisce about the fun I had in the Cambridge University Rock and Roll Acrobatic Club.

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