Dr. Granetz is a principal research scientist at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. His main areas of research include MHD equilibrium and stability, disruptions, and disruption mitigation studies, both on the
Alcator series of high-field tokamaks at MIT, and through collaborations on other major tokamaks around the world. Dr. Granetz has also taught graduate student courses in plasma physics and fusion for the Physics Department and Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at MIT. He spent 2.5 years in Europe as a visiting scientist on the Joint European Torus (JET). He has also participated extensively on ITER advisory groups on MHD and disruption issues. Currently, Dr. Granetz is also part of a privately funded program at MIT to incorporate high-temperature superconductors into high field magnets for use in the SPARC tokamak, as well as future tokamak and stellarator reactors.
Dr. Granetz received his undergraduate and graduate degrees at MIT, doing
his doctoral thesis research on the early Alcator tokamaks
