Thomas Klinger

Thomas Klinger is experimental physicist working at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany. Born in 1965, he studied physics at the University of Kiel where he obtained his PhD in 1994. His expertise is drift wave turbulence and nonlinear structures in plasmas. He was visiting scientist in Stockholm, Marseille and Garching. In 1998 he became Professor at the University of Greifswald. In April 2001 he was appointed as Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute. Here he is the head of the “Stellarator Dynamics and Transport” Division and since 2005 he leads the large superconducting stellarator project “Wendelstein 7-X”. 

Thomas Klinger was a Falling Walls Winner in the Physical Sciences category in 2023.