Scott Karbashewski Email & Phone Number

• 5+years working in plasma physics research with experience performing experiments on a large, linear magnetic confinement plasma device.• Proficient in Matlab and Interactive Data Language (IDL) for analyzing experimental data and communicating results.• Experienced in applying plasma theory to develop models and describe experiment results.Research Interests-------------------Basic plasma physics: • Experiments using the Large Plasma Device (LAPD) at UCLA investigating energy transport in magnetized, filamentary plasma structures.• Development of thermal wave diagnostic tools for measuring the thermal conductivity of the plasma, ballistic-diffusive transport boundaries, and anomalous thermal transport.• Multi-filament interactions and drift-Alfvén wave coupling that leads to turbulence, intermittent transport events, and chaotic dynamics.Space Science:• Interested in satellite data analysis and particle-in-cell simulations.• Dynamics of whistler waves in the Solar Wind using Parker Solar Probe measurements.• Parametric decay instabilities of whistler waves into electrostatic modes in the solar wind and radiation belts, i.e. ion acoustic waves, electron acoustic waves, and beam-driven electron modes. -------------------