Jack Greenwood
Fields of expertise
- Superconductors for fusion energy (LTS and HTS)
- High field measurements on superconductors with currents up to 100 kA.
- Superconductors under strain.
- Critical currents: flux pinning, Josephson junctions, and percolation theory.
- Development of superconducting magnet technologies such as demountable joints.
Biography
In September 2023 I started working in the Swiss Plasma Centre’s Superconductivity Group (SPC-SG). The group is part of EPFL and it is physically located at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Villigen, Switzerland. I am developing superconducting magnet technologies for the EU-DEMO fusion reactor and testing them in the unique SUpraLeiter Test ANlage (SULTAN) test facility. I also engage with external organisations who wish to test in SULTAN.Before joining SPC-SG I worked at the UK Atomic Energy Authority, developing remountable superconducting magnet joint technologies and magnet test facilities for the UK’s STEP fusion reactor.
Before that, I did a PhD in applied superconductivity at Durham University. My work there was focused on understanding the current transport properties of technological superconductors under strain (both HTS and LTS) in high fields.
Education
Master of Physics (MPhys)
1st Class Hons.
University of Durham, UK
2012-2016
Doctor of Philosophy - Physics
Thesis title: "Percolative Current Flow through Anisotropic, High-Field Superconductors under Strain"
University of Durham, UK
2016-2023
Magnetics and Superconductors Engineer
STEP fusion magnet technology development.
UK Atomic Energy Authority, UK
2021-2023