Carter Chamberlain Email & Phone Number

Knoxville, Tennessee, Us

When I first joined Type One Energy's magnet program, it was just the co-founder and me, a desk, and a toolbox, without even a lab to call our own. My initiative and work filling multiple roles allowed us to achieve steady, rapid progress in developing and building this crucial stellarator component.My leadership work included: • meeting with industrial realtors to rent out facilities, • coordinating with riggers to move industrial machines, • negotiating with suppliers of scientific equipment, • spec-ing out power supplies and diagnostic tools, • purchasing office furniture, hydraulic fluid, and everything in between, • installing and monitoring security systems, • interviewing and hiring more employees, • performing outreach and demonstrations to the public, • cultivating potential investors, • overseeing flexible project management for the company's rapidly-shifting goals.This was all in addition to my scientific contributions to the company, which resulted in: • the world’s first HTS stellarator magnet, • eleven patents (for five of which I was the sole inventor), • a scientific publication with MIT collaborators, • a diverse team of over a dozen employees manufacturing and testing prototypes.I was ultimately promoted to Principal Investigator to lead my own team in the development of an entirely novel HTS cable.

San Leandro, Ca, Us

Role: Nuclear Physicist:• Employed diagnostic instruments such as plastic scintillator neutron detectors, UV spectrographs, Rogowski coils/Pearson probes as well as BDot probe construction, calibration, analog integration and digitization.• Created machine learning algorithms to optimize neutron production.• Built a Delta 3D printer on a $0 budget.• Designed and 3D printed parts for inner electrode alignment, spectroscopy optic mounts and ESD pads using a variety of materials ranging from conductive ABS to flexible filaments.• Simulated device geometry for neutron scattering, informed neutron detector deployment and calculated yield conversion factors with MCNP.• Participated in construction projects such as ultra-high vacuum chamber assembly, pneumatic drop switch interlock installation and coaxial/fiber optic cable crimping and routing.• Designed and assembled circuitry for spectrograph trigger and PMT power supplies with EMI shielding and ground loop elimination.Role: Safety Officer:• Wrote and enforced company COVID policy.• Maintained safety equipment and policies regarding lockout/tagout and machine interlocks.• Performed project risk assessments involving calculating approach boundaries for HV components and radiation dose measurements.Role: Chief Operator:• Maintained experimental SOP and trained new operators to run prototypes.• Conducted live demonstrations for visiting investors.• Invented 4 patentable upgrades to the prototype.

I've taken this time between jobs to learn some skills that I was lacking upon graduation and are necessary for my chosen career goal. Although I've mastered several programming languages, I will surely be more valuable to future employers if I become more familiar with the link between my diagnostic software and the scientific instruments that actually obtain the data. Given the prototypical nature of nuclear fusion reactors, this skill in computer engineering is even more important.By experimenting with Raspberry Pi and its components, I am filling this gap in my education with online courses and small side-projects.

I'm continuing the research I performed as a graduate student for the Quasar Outflow Group until my adviser begins his sabbatical in August.The images below show my suite of interactive Java applets and programs that are used to analyze spectral emission and absorption features seen in plasma outflows from quasars. Also used to determine ionization phase, electron density and other plasma diagnostics.

Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Us

Performed fluid dynamics experiments with Weather-in-a-Tank, an inter-university outreach project.This project consists of a tank of water on a mechanically rotating platform (emulating the Earth's rotation) and can be used to simulate various meteorological phenomenon.I worked on several engineering improvements to the apparatus. I developed circuitry for attaching a side camera, improved mechanical mounting of fans, and added circuitry allowing fine control of the fan speed.I also performed scientific research using the apparatus, including a new experiment that demonstrated the coastal up-welling effect of a freshwater-saltwater interface. I demonstrated these experiments at several scientific outreach events.

Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Us

Developed cellular-automata simulations of asteroid-Earth impacts and stellar gas dynamics.Performed research in supercomputing, including world’s first PS3 cluster.Researched induction of relativistic field-reversed magnetic loops, with applications to ultra-high frequency power transmission.

Nanoptek developed a self-contained solar collector used for photoelectrolysis of water into hydrogen fuel.I contributed to every aspect of the solar collector project. I helped develop the fuel separation mechanism in the photocatalyst core, from theoretical design to proof-of-concept demonstrations to manufacturing. I conducted international business with companies in China to obtain epoxy-encapsulated photovoltaic cells that provided bias voltage to the device, and I engineered the circuitry and structural support for attaching the cells to the prototype collector. I performed solar tracking simulations to calculate the optimal deployment density of a field of the collectors. I operated a scanning electron microscope to image the topography of the photocatalyst etching process. I measured film thicknesses using an ellipsometer. I helped manufacture the photocatalysts and performed band-gap measurements of the prototypes to determine efficiency. I operated the fully assembled collectors to measure performance.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics

Bs, Physics

High School