Minh Quang Tran#
| Membership Number: | 3018 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- January 2017 Professor Emeritus
- December 2014 Vice Chair of Commission C16 (Plasma Physics) of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
- Project Leader of the Heating and Current Drive for DEMO in the frame of the European Consortium EUROfusion
- 2003 - end of 2013 Director of the Institute for Physics of Energy and Particle (IPEP)
- 2003 - 2006 "EFDA Leader" responsible for joint European activities in the field of fusion
- Deputy Director of CRPP, 1993-1999, 1999-Sept 2014: Director General of CRPP, EPFL and Head of Research Unit of the Association Euratom-Swiss Confederation
- 1997 Professor of Plasma Physics, School of Basic Science, EPFL
- 1992 Adjunct Professor (Professeur titulaire), EPFL
- 1979 - 1993 Group Leader CRPP
- 1977 - 1979 Assistant Research Physicist and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles
- 1977 Ph.D., Physics, EPFL, Switzerland
Fields of Scholarship
- Heating of fusion plasma
- Technology (electron cyclotron heating, material science, superconductivity) for fusion reactors (ITER, DEMO)
Honours and Awards
- July 2014: President of the Swiss Physical Society
- September 2013 to July 2014 Vice President of the Swiss Physical Society
- 2011 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2005 Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Science
- 2004 Fellow of the Institute of Physics
