Kenneth Lee
EPFL SPC-PB
PPH 277 (Bâtiment PPH)
Station 13
1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://spc.epfl.ch/
Research areas
Experimental divertor physicsBiography
I am a PhD student at the Swiss Plasma Center at EPFL, advised by Christian Theiler, on plasma physics and magnetic confinement fusion.I work on experimental divertor physics as part of the TCV tokamak team. I am particularly interested in alternative divertor configurations.
My academic activities include:
- TCV diagnostic specialist, responsible officer for the Reciprocating Divertor Probe Array (RDPA) system
- Scientific collaborator of the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation programme, focusing on "RT-07: Physics understanding of alternative divertor configurations as risk mitigation for DEMO"
- Teaching assistant for a graduate level plasma physics course PHYS-423 Plasma I
- Selected participant of the JT-60SA International Fusion School
Prior to EPFL, I did my undergraduate in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics at Oxford. I was born and raised in Hong Kong.
Publications
Infoscience publications
Publications
𝑋-Point Target Radiator Regime in Tokamak Divertor Plasmas
Physical Review Letters. 2025. DOI : 10.1103/physrevlett.134.185102.Access to an ELM-suppressed X-point radiator regime in TCV snowflake minus configurations
Nuclear Materials and Energy. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.nme.2024.101784.X-point radiator and power exhaust control in configurations with multiple X-points in TCV
Physics of Plasmas. 2024. DOI : 10.1063/5.0201401.Validation of SOLPS-ITER simulations against the TCV-X21 reference case
Nuclear Fusion. 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad3562.Selected publications
| K. Lee et al. (TCV Team and EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation Team) Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 185102 (2025) |
𝑋-Point Target Radiator Regime in Tokamak Divertor Plasmas |