Dr. Tatsuya Kobayashi

“For his outstanding contributions on the driving mechanism of mean radial electric field and zonal flow and the impact of the radial electric field on the turbulent transport and structure formation in magnetically confined fusion plasmas”

Tatsuya Kobayashi has been an assistant professor at the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) since 2014. He graduated from the National Institute of Technology, Matsue College in 2009 after an electrical engineering course. He obtained his PhD in Physics in March 2014 at Kyushu University, where he studied basic turbulence physics in magnetized plasmas. After moving to NIFS, he continued his studies in turbulence structure formation, mainly through experimental data analysis and modeling, particularly focusing upon the nonlinear interplay between turbulence and the radial electric field. In parallel, he conducted experiments in the Large Helical Device (LHD) in order to clarify the underlying physics of the hydrogen isotope effect in transport barrier criticality.

His citation reads: Outstanding contributions on the driving mechanism of the mean radial electric field and zonal flow and the impact of the radial electric field on the turbulent transport and structure formation in magnetically confined fusion plasmas.