Grant Bodner Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

Focus Areas: Disruption Mitigation, Thomson ScatteringProject lead for the investigation of dispersive shell pellets as an alternative disruption mitigation technique. Responsible for coordinating shell pellet coating/manufacture, experimental planning, and subsequent data analysis.Designated operator for the DIII-D Thomson scattering (TS) diagnostic for disruption-focused experiments. Conduct system start-up and shutdown, maintain laser alignment through the run-day, coordinate… Show more Focus Areas: Disruption Mitigation, Thomson ScatteringProject lead for the investigation of dispersive shell pellets as an alternative disruption mitigation technique. Responsible for coordinating shell pellet coating/manufacture, experimental planning, and subsequent data analysis.Designated operator for the DIII-D Thomson scattering (TS) diagnostic for disruption-focused experiments. Conduct system start-up and shutdown, maintain laser alignment through the run-day, coordinate timing of the TS burst, and verify produced profiles.Supports shattered pellet injection experiments on JET and DIII-D with a focus on assimilation physics, pellet drifts, and multiple injection scenarios. Show less

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Focus Areas: Wall Conditioning, Plasma-Wall Interactions, Thomson ScatteringAided in the implementation of an Impurity Powder Dropper (IPD) on the WEST tokamak to investigate the real-time boronization of long-pulse tokamak discharges in a full-W environment. Was responsible for IPD operation, coordination/planning of experiments, and subsequent data analysis.Developed the data analysis code for the HFS Thomson Scattering system on LTX-Beta.Assisted with the laser… Show more Focus Areas: Wall Conditioning, Plasma-Wall Interactions, Thomson ScatteringAided in the implementation of an Impurity Powder Dropper (IPD) on the WEST tokamak to investigate the real-time boronization of long-pulse tokamak discharges in a full-W environment. Was responsible for IPD operation, coordination/planning of experiments, and subsequent data analysis.Developed the data analysis code for the HFS Thomson Scattering system on LTX-Beta.Assisted with the laser alignment and some optical calibration of the ST40 Thomson scattering diagnostic. Show less

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Aided in the design of the Pegasus multi-point Thomson scattering system and was responsible for operation and maintenance of the diagnostic.Conducted various run campaigns to further the understanding of local helicity injection as a non-solenoidal start-up technique.

Madison, Wisconsin

Repaired and implemented a triple Langmuir diagnostic probe in order to evaluate the edge electron pressure structure of L and H mode discharges at very low aspect ratio.

Princeton, New Jersey

Collected and analyzed spectral data using the Long Wavelength Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer (LoWEUS) on the Lithium Tokamak Experiment (LTX).

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Nuclear Engineering And Engineering Physics

Thesis: Electron Heating During Local Helicity Injection in the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment

Master Of Science - Ms, Nuclear Engineering And Engineering Physics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Engineering Physics