Biography

Prof. Jonathan P. Graves is a Senior Scientist at EPFL and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of York, UK.  He achieved first class joint honours in Electronic Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Nottingham, UK in 1996. He completed his Ph.D. in Theoretical Mechanics from the University of Nottingham, UK, three years later in 1999. During his Ph.D. he was based in the Culham theory group of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, developing kinetic descriptions of the internal kink instability, and participating in deuterium-tritium experimental analysis in the Joint European Torus. After a short time in industry, and a postdoc at Nottingham University, he took a position at the Swiss Plasma Center at EPFL, becoming a Senior Scientist in 2014, and became an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of York, UK, in 2020.  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 is on the editorial board for the journal Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, and in 2020 became Scientific Secretary of the Varenna-Lausanne International Workshop in Theory of Fusion Plasmas.

Current work

Magnetohydrodynamic confinement and stability of tokamak plasmas, 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, theory of plasma continua

Research Interests

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