Thomas Klinger, born in 1965 in Eutin, studied physics at the University of Kiel. After a research period in France he took his PhD in 1994 with a thesis on gas discharge physics. As a university assistant at Kiel Klinger was concerned with drift wave turbulence and nonlinear plasma structures. After serving as visiting scientist with the Alfvén Laboratory in Stockholm, Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille and Max-Planck-Institute of Plasma Physics in Garching he qualified for lectureship in 1998 with a thesis entitled "Control of Plasma Instabilities". Shortly thereafter he was appointed Professor of Experimental Physics at Ernst-Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald, where he has headed the Institute of Physics as Managing Director from 2000 till 2001. Since April 2001 he has been Scientific Fellow at Greifswald Branch Institute of Max-Planck-Institute of Plasma Physics and Head of the Stellarator Scenario Development Division (formerly Experimental Plasma Physics Division 5).
Selected publications: (some of them available to institute staff as PDF)
H. Ehmler, K. McCormick, E. Wolfrum, R. Burhenn, P. Grigull, T. Klinger, W7AS Team (2003): Charge-exchange spectroscopy at the W7-AS stellarator employing a high-energy Li beam. Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 45 (1), 53-62 .
C. M. Franck, O. Grulke, T. Klinger (2003): Mode transitions in helicon discharges, Phys. Plasmas 10 (1), 323-325.
C. M. Franck, R. Kleiber, G. Bonhomme, O. Grulke, T. Klinger (2003): Transition from unbounded to bounded whistler wave dispersion: Reconsidered, Phys. Plasmas,10(10), 3817-3822.
C. Franck, O. Grulke, T. Klinger (2002): Transition from unbounded to bounded plasma whistler wave dispersion, Phys. Plasmas 9 (8), 3254-3258.
O. Grulke, T. Klinger (2002): Large-scale fluctuation structures in plasma turbulence,New J. Phys. 4: art. no. 67 .
K. McCormick, P. Grigull, R. Burhenn, R. Brakel, H. Ehmler, Y. Feng, F. Gadelmeier, L. Giannone, D. Hildebrandt, M. Hirsch, R. Jaenicke, J. Kisslinger, T. Klinger, S. Klose, J.P. Knauer, R. König, G. Kühner, H.P. Laqua, D. Naujoks, H. Niedermeyer, E. Pasch, N. Ramasubramanian, N. Rust, F. Sardei, F. Wagner, A. Weller, U. Wenzel, A. Werner (2002): New advanced operational regime on the W7-AS stellarator, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (1): art. no. 015001.
O. Grulke, F. Greiner, T. Klinger, A. Piel (2001): Comparative experimental study of coherent structures in a simple magnetized torus, Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion, 43 (4), 525-542.