Biography

Professor Jonathan Graves shares his time with the University of York, where he is Chair in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Plasmas, and with the Swiss Plasma Center in EPFL.  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