Contact
| Anne E. White Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Science and Engineering DepartmentPlasma Science and Fusion Center 175 Albany Street, Building NW17-111 Cambridge, MA, 02139-4307 whitea-at-mit.edu Tel: 617-253-8667 |
About me
I joined the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT as an Assistant Professor in January 2010, where I study turbulence and transport at the Alcator C-Mod tokamak and the DIII-D tokamak. Before coming to MIT, I was a postdoc at DIII-D, working on validation of transport models and fluctuation diagnostic development. I completed my Ph.D. in 2008 at the Physics and Astronomy Department at UCLA in experimental plasma physics with Prof. Troy Carter, Dr. Lothar Schmitz and Dr. Tony Peebles (Plasma Diagnostics Group). Prior to that, I obtained my undergraduate B.S. degree at the University of Arizona in Physics and Applied Mathematics.
My team’s research program combines the development of advanced turbulence diagnostics for fusion plasmas with novel approaches to modeling and simulation. Through our work, we perform in-depth studies of heat transport and particle transport in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. We employ state-of-the-art, advanced gyrokinetic codes, such as GYRO, and a comprehensive set of unique measurements at Alcator C-Mod at DIII-D to test and validate transport models that are used to predict performance in ITER and future fusion reactors.
Together with collaborators across the fusion community, I have published 32 peer-reviewed articles. The primary journals for my field are Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, and Physics of Plasmas.
My research has been recognized with the Office of Science, DOE Early Career Award (2011-2016), and the Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in Plasma Physics, 2009.
I advise four graduate students and two undergraduate students (UROPs) at the Alcator C-Mod tokamak at MIT. Over the past two years at MIT, I have advised four other undergraduates and have worked directly with more than ten other PhD students (from the Physics, EECS, and NSE departments) at Alcator C-Mod.
Professional Activities
Department and Institute
• Founder of PSFC/C-Mod Turbulence Simulation User Group
• Undergraduate Recruiting Officer, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
• Faculty panel member, “MIT Postdocs: Mentoring and Career Development”
• Graduate Registration Officer, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
• Graduate Committee, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
• Mentor, Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT)
• Volunteer for PSFC Education and Outreach Events
• Physics operator for Alcator C-Mod tokamak
Community-wide
• Spokesperson/Leader of International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA)
Joint Experiment DIAG-03
• Executive Committee, International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference
• Referee for Physical Review Letters, Physics of Plasmas and Physica Scripta
• Local Arrangement Coordinator, Meeting of APS, Division of Plasma Physics,
• Scientific Program Committee, Meeting of APS, Division of Plasma Physics