Setthivoine You
Visiting (JSPS) Research Staff

Ono Laboratory / High Temperature Plasma Center
University of Tokyo
2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-8656
Japan

tel: +81 3 5841 6690
fax: +81 3 5841 6780
email: you(at)ts.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

I am currently at the University of Tokyo (Japan), collaborating with Prof. Yasuchi Ono and the High Temperature Plasma Center on experimental studies of magnetic relaxation. Magnetic relaxation is an interesting, fundamental plasma physics topic describing a spontaneous behaviour of magnetized plasmas. The subject is at the boundaries of fusion energy, space physics, astrophysics and space propulsion, and touches on complex topics such as magnetic reconnection, turbulence and topology.

The work is a generalization of my previous collaboration with Prof. Paul Bellan at the California Institute of Technology (USA). During my four years in sunny Pasadena, I studied experimentally the formation physics of a fusion energy confinement concept (called a spheromak), and looked at the simulation of astrophysical jets in the laboratory.

My PhD thesis was on fuelling and density control of tokamaks (the mainstream fusion energy confinement concept), focusing on the supersonic jet gas-puffing of "spherical" tokamaks. The work was undertaken at UKAEA Fusion/Culham Science Center near Oxford (UK), while I was a student at Imperial College in London and advised by Steve J. Fielding and Dr. Michael Coppins.

Born in Marseille (France) in 1975, my parents quickly took me to several African and Middle East countries, before returning to France for an international education at the Lycée International just outside Paris. After completing the baccalauréat, and upon the chance advice of my English history teacher, I crossed the Channel to study Physics in London.