Jonathan Graves

EPFL SB SPC-TH
PPB 114 (Bâtiment PPB)
Station 13
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Research and Teaching in the field of Magnetic Fusion and Plasma physics

Jonathan Graves shares his time between the Swiss Plasma Center in EPFL where he is a Senior Scientist, and the University of York, where he is Professor of Physics and Chair in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Plasmas.  He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion.  He achieved first class joint honours in Electronic Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Nottingham, UK in 1996. During his Ph.D. (Theoretical Mechanics, University of Nottingham 1999) he was based in at Culham Laboratory, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, developing kinetic models of plasma instabilities, and participating in deuterium-tritium experimental analysis in the Joint European Torus. After a short time in industry he took a position at the Swiss Plasma Center at EPFL, becoming a Senior Scientist in 2014.  In 2015 he became a member of the EUROfusion Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) and a member of the EUROfusion DEMO Technical Advisory Group.  He became Director of the Varenna-Lausanne International Workshop in Theory of Fusion Plasmas in 2020.  In 2022 he became Chair in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Plasmas, Professor of the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, UK.  And he became Editor-in-Chief of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion in 2023.

Research Interests

Magnetohydrodynamic confinement and stability of tokamak plasmas, linear and non-linear resistive instabilities, long wavelength kinetic instabilities in tokamaks, kinetic theory, fast particle physics, 3D Alfvenic and Wave codes (LEMan code), guiding centre theory and codes (VENUS-LEVIS code), ion cyclotron resonance heating in 3D (SCENIC code), impurity transport in 3D rotating plasmas

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Research

Research

Magnetohydrodynamic confinement and stability of tokamak plasmas, linear and non-linear resistive instabilities, long wavelength kinetic instabilities in tokamaks, kinetic theory, fast particle physics, 3D Alfvenic and Wave codes (LEMan code), guiding centre theory and codes (VENUS-LEVIS code), ion cyclotron resonance heating in 3D (SCENIC code), impurity transport in 3D rotating plasmas

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Erol Balkovic, Lili Édes, Joachim Jacques Koerfer, Guillaume Raphäel Hervé Van Parys, Chizhou Wang

Past EPFL PhD Students

Antoine Baillod (2023), Daniele Brunetti (2015), Guillermo Bustos Ramirez (2023), Margot Marion Yannick Coste-Sarguet (2026), Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin (2017), Fabien Nicolas Jeanquartier (2026), Andreas Kleiner (2019), Samuel Lanthaler (2020), Eduardo José Lascas Neto (2022), Mike Machielsen (2023), Hamish William Patten (2019), Madhusudan Raghunathan (2018)

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Mattia Albergante (2011), Martin Jucker (2010), David Pfefferlé (2015)

Courses

Magnetic confinement

PHYS-731

To provide an overview of the fundamentals of magnetic confinement (MC) of plasmas for fusion.The different MC configurations are presented, with a description of their operating regimes.The basic elements of particle & energy transport, of plasma-wall interaction & of burning plasma are introduced.

Plasma instabilities

PHYS-736

To complete the theoretical knowledge acquired before the graduate studies.