Mengdi Kong

mengdi.kong@epfl.ch

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EPFL SB SPC-TCV
PPB 215 (Bâtiment PPB)
Station 13
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 65 46
+41 21 693 14 85
Office: PPB 215
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Website: https://spc.epfl.ch/

Expertise

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), plasma instabilities, 3D non-linear MHD modelling, tokamak experiments

Biography Publications Research Teaching & PhD

Professionals experiences

Physicist

2020–2023

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)

Staff scientist

2023–2023

Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL

Education

Ph.D. in Plasma physics

| Physics

2016 – 2020 EPFL
Directed by Olivier Sauter

Research

Current Research Fields

Dr. Kong's current work focuses on tokamak plasma disruptions, via numerical modelling with the JOREK code (https://www.jorek.eu/) as well as analyses of experiments on the JET and TCV tokamaks.

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Chizhou Wang, Lili Édes

Courses

Physics (for MAN)

PREPA-033

This course presents how to broach some natural phenomena by adequate modeling, and also the relevant mathematical tools, like vector calculus. Emphasis is put on everyday life phenomena, which can be described by Newtonian mechanics.