Ursel Fantz#
(c) IPP
| Membership Number: | 4707 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ipp.mpg.de/technologie |
Present and Previous Positions
- Division head: ITER Technology & Diagnostics, Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics, IPP
- Head of the Experimental Plasma Physics Group, Institute for Physics, Augsburg University
- since 2010 Head (acting) of the ITER Technology & Diagnostics Division at the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
- since 2008 Head of the Experimental Plasma Physics Group, Institute for Physics, University of Augsburg
- 2006 Visiting Professor at the NIFS Institute (National Institute for Fusion Science) , Toki. Japan
- since 2004 at Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics with focus on the development of negative hydrogen ion sources for ITER
- 1995 - 2004 Scientific Assistant at the Chair of Experimental Plasma Physics, University of Augsburg with focus on low temperature
- 1991 - 1995 Employed at Institute of Plasma Research at University of Stuttgart as Research Scientist for diagnostics of molecular low temperature plasmas
- 1982 - 1984 Employed as Physical Technical Assistant at the Institute of Theory in Electrical Engineering, University of Stuttgart
Fields of Scholarship
- Applied physics: surface production of negative ions
- Fusion research
- Plasma chemistry
- Negative hydrogen ion sources
- Low temperature plasma physics
- Plasma technology
- Neutral beam injection
- Plasma diagnostics
- Plasma modelling
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Award of the International Symposium on Negative Ions, Beams and Sources for recent innovative and significant achievements in the field of physics and technology
- 2006 Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the HGF (Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres) for interdisciplinary research on the topic “Development of a High-Current-RF-Driven Plasma Source for Negative Ions”
- 1996 Anton- and Klara-Röser-Prize for PhD Thesis, University of Stuttgart
- since 2018 Member of the Executive Board of the German Physical Society (DPG), area of responsibility: International Relations
- since 2018 Member of the Senate Committee and of the Grants Committee on Research Training Groups of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), the German research funding organization
- since 2017 Associate Member Delegate to the European Physics Society, the EPS Council ; 2018 elected to the Executive Commitee
- 2015 - 2017 Chair of the Project Board for "Heating and Current drive" within EUROfusion
- since 2001 Consultant and Chief Scientific Investigator for „Atomic and Molecular Data for Fusion Edge Plasmas“ at the IAEA, Vienna
