Sibylle Günter was born on 20 April 1964 in Rostock. She took her degree
in physics at the University of Rostock in 1987. Three years later she completed
her PhD with a thesis on computational investigation of radiation from dense
plasmas in the Department of Theoretical Physics, supervised by Prof. Röpke.
From 1990 till 1996 she served as Scientific Assistant with the Chair of
Theoretical Physics I. Her studies at the University of Rostock were extended
by stays at the University of Maryland with Prof. H. R. Griem and as visiting
scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with
Dr. W. Wiese. She qualified for lectureship in 1996 with a thesis entitled
"Optical Properties of Dense Plasmas" at the University of Rostock, where
she still gives lectures. Since February of the same year she has been a
member of staff at Max-Planck-Instiute of Plasma Physics. On 1 Juli 2000
she was appointed Head of the Tokamak Physics Division. Since 2001 she is adjunct professor at Rostock University, since 2006 "Honorarprofessor" (part-time professor) at TU Munich.
Selected publications (some of them available to institute staff as
PDF):
Lauber, Ph., S. Guenter, S. Pinches: Kinetic properties of shear
Alfven eigenmodes in tokamak plasmas. Phys.
Plasmas 12, 122501
(2005).
Guenter, S. et al.: Overview of the ASDEX Upgrade results - Development
of integrated operating scenarios for ITER. Nucl.
Fusion 45, S98-S108
(2005).
Guenter, S., Q. Yu, J. Krueger, K. Lackner: Modelling of heat
transport in magnetised plasmas using non-aligned magnetic coordinates.
J. Comput. Phys. 209 354-370 (2005)
Guenter, S. et al.: The frequently interrupted regime of
neoclassical tearing modes (FIR-NTMs): Required plasma parameters and
possibilities for its active control. Nucl.
Fusion 44 524-532 (2004)
Guenter, S. and H. Zohm: Performance-limiting MHD activity and
possibilies for its active stabilization in ASDEX Upgrade. Fusion
Science and Technology 44 682-692 (2003).