8. Career Dialogue "Prof. Benedikt Geiger - co-Principal Investigator of the HSX stellarator experiment at UW-Madison, Wisconsin"

Career Dialogue

Date: Jul 15, 2021
Time: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Benedikt Geiger
co-Principal Investigator of the HSX stellarator experiment at UW-Madison, Wisconsin
Location: Zoom
Room: For zoom details write an email to careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
Host: Career Center
Contact: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de

For the Career Dialogue we invite people with different backgrounds who will initially tell about themselves, their career or their networks and will then answer your questions and engage in a dialogue with you. The purpose of the Career Dialogue is to provide insight into different career paths, to bring you in contact with people outside IPP and to enhance our networks in all directions - science, industry, entrepreneurship, science management.

Benedikt Geiger studied physics at Ludwig Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany) and wrote his PhD thesis “Fast-ion transport studies using FIDA spectroscopy at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Hartmut Zohm (IPP Garching). After being Post-Doc in Garching for two more years, he transitioned to IPP Greifswald where he started working at the W7-X stellarator project. In 2016, he received funding for a Helmholtz young investigators group to study particle transport in W7-X and ASDEX Upgrade and in 2019, he was offered an Assistant Professorship at UW-Madison, Wisconsin. Since then, Benedikt Geiger is working in Madison as a co-Principal Investigator of the HSX stellarator experiment and leads a research group that additionally studies plasma transport at the DIII-D tokamak and at W7-X. In 2020, he received an Early Career Award by the Department of Energy for heat and particle transport studies in stellarators.