Tim Luce
ITER Organization

Tim Luce

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Tim Luce is an American physicist who has worked in the field of magnetic confinement fusion for over 40 years.  He spent 30 years at General Atomics, primarily conducting experiments in plasma heating, energy confinement, and operating scenario development on the DIII-D tokamak there, but also as a visiting researcher in laboratories in Europe, Asia, and Australia.  In 2016 and 2017, Luce participated in the formulation of the present ITER Research Plan.  He joined the ITER Organization in late 2017 and is now the Head of the Science and Operation Domain and Chief Scientist.  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was awarded the inaugural Nuclear Fusion prize from the IAEA in 2006 for development of a new operating scenario relevant for the ITER tokamak.

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