Curriculum Vitae, F. Wagner
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Wagner, Friedrich, Prof. Dr. rer.nat. habil.
16.11.1943, Pfaffenhofen/Schw., Germany
German
Director of Experimental Division E3
Professor at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
Tel. +49-3834-882001; fritz.wagner@ipp.mpg.de
Education and Training:
1964 - 1970 Study of physics, Techn. University, Munich; Dipl. Phys
1970 - 1972 PhD work, Techn. University, Munich; Dr. rer. nat.
1973 - 1974 Post-doc, Ohio State University, Ohio, USA
1988
Habilitation, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Career:
1975 1985
1988 1993 - 2005
1999 - 2007
Employed by Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
Assignment to a C3 position
Scientific Member of the Max-Planck Society
Member of the Board of Directors, IPP
Spokesperson of Branch-Institute of IPP in Greifswald
Teaching
1988 - 1991
1991 - 1993
1993 - 1998
1999 -
Teaching assignment, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Teaching assignment, Technical University, Munich
Honorary Professor, Technical University, Munich
Ordinary Professor, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald
Project Management
1986 - 1990 Project Head of ASDEX tokamak
1990 - 1999 Project Head of Wendelstein 7-AS stellarator
2003 - 2005 Project Head of Wendelstein 7-X stellarator
Miscellaneous
1986
Guest scientist, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton
1990 - 1998 Member of the JET- Scientific Council
1996 - 2004 Chairman of the Plasma Physics Division of EPS
1996 - 2007 Member of the editorial board of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
1999 - 2003 Member of the Research Council of the National Institute for Fusion Studies
2003 Member of the Project Advisory Committee of NCSX, Princeton
2003 Member of the International Advisory Committee of ASIPP, Hefei, Rep. of China
2006 - 2007 President-elect of the European Physical Society; member of the Executive Comm.
2006 Member of the Intern. Advisory Panel of the Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics
of the University of Warwick (UK)
2007 Member of the Intern. Advisory Committee of the MAST project, UKAEA, Culham (UK)
2007 President of the European Physical Society
2008 Chairman of the international panel to evaluate the FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics
Rijnhuizen
2008 Member of the External Advisory Board of FISICA-N; Portugal
2008 Member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal: Plasma Physics and
Controlled Fusion
2008 Member of the Fusion Advisory Board (FAB) of the EPSRC (UK)
Honours
 APS plasma physics award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research (1987)
 Fellow of the American Physical Society (1990)
 Honorary Member of the IOFFE Institute, St. Petersburg (1997)
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Fellow of the Institute of Physics (1999)
Hannes-Alfvén Prize of the European Physical Society (2007)
Scientific interests
High temperature plasma physics; magnetic confinement with tokamaks and stellarators; turbulence
and transport in toroidal systems; the role of the electric field in toroidal confinement; plasma selforganisation.
Most cited papers
REGIME OF IMPROVED CONFINEMENT AND HIGH-BETA IN NEUTRAL-BEAM-HEATED
DIVERTOR DISCHARGES OF THE ASDEX TOKAMAK
Author(s): WAGNER, F; BECKER, G; BEHRINGER, K, et al.
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 49 Issue: 19 Pages: 1408-1412 Published: 1982
Times Cited: 986
TRANSPORT IN TOROIDAL DEVICES - THE EXPERIMENTALISTS VIEW
Author(s): WAGNER, F; STROTH, U
Source: PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION Volume: 35 Issue: 10 Pages: 13211371 Published: OCT 1993
Times Cited: 162
IMPROVED CONFINEMENT IN HIGH-DENSITY OHMIC DISCHARGES IN ASDEX
Author(s): SOLDNER, FX; MULLER, ER; WAGNER, F, et al.
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 61 Issue: 9 Pages: 1105-1108 Published: AUG
29 1988
Times Cited: 127
CONFINEMENT STUDIES IN L-TYPE AND H-TYPE ASDEX DISCHARGES
Author(s): KEILHACKER, M; BECKER, G; BERNHARDI, K, et al.
Source: PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION Volume: 26 Issue: 1 Pages: 4963 Published: 1984
Times Cited: 117
DEVELOPMENT OF AN EDGE TRANSPORT BARRIER AT THE H-MODE TRANSITION OF ASDEX
Author(s): WAGNER, F; FUSSMANN, G; GRAVE, T, et al.
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 53 Issue: 15 Pages: 1453-1456 Published:
1984
Times Cited: 101
H-MODE OF THE W 7-AS STELLARATOR
Author(s): ERCKMANN, V; WAGNER, F; BALDZUHN, J, et al.
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 70 Issue: 14 Pages: 2086-2089 Published: APR
5 1993
Times Cited: 100
IMPORTANCE OF THE DIVERTOR CONFIGURATION FOR ATTAINING THE H-REGIME IN ASDEX
Author(s): WAGNER, F; KEILHACKER, M
Source: JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS Volume: 121 Pages: 103-113 Published: 1984
Times Cited: 73
TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR OF THE PLASMA CURRENT DISTRIBUTION IN THE ASDEX TOKAMAK
DURING LOWER-HYBRID CURRENT DRIVE
Author(s): MCCORMICK, K; SOLDNER, FX; ECKHARTT, D, et al.
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 58 Issue: 5 Pages: 491-494 Published: FEB 2
1987
Times Cited: 67
BORONIZATION OF ASDEX
Author(s): SCHNEIDER, U; POSCHENRIEDER, W; BESSENRODTWEBERPALS, M, et al.
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Source: JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS Volume: 176 Pages: 350-356 Published: DEC
1990
Times Cited: 61
A STUDY OF RUNAWAY ELECTRON CONFINEMENT IN THE ASDEX TOKAMAK
Author(s): KWON, OJ; DIAMOND, PH; WAGNER, F, et al.
Source: NUCLEAR FUSION Volume: 28 Issue: 11 Pages: 1931-1943 Published: NOV 1988
Times Cited: 61
IMPROVED CONFINEMENT WITH COUNTER NEUTRAL INJECTION INTO ASDEX
Author(s): GEHRE, O; GRUBER, O; MURMANN, HD, et al.
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 60 Issue: 15 Pages: 1502-1505 Published: APR
11 1988
Times Cited: 60
DIVERTOR EFFICIENCY IN ASDEX
Author(s): ENGELHARDT, W; BECKER, G; BEHRINGER, K, et al.
Source: JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS Volume: 111 Issue: NOV- Pages: 337342 Published: 1982
Times Cited: 56
EXPERIMENTAL-STUDY OF THE PRINCIPLES GOVERNING TOKAMAK TRANSPORT
Author(s): WAGNER, F; GRUBER, O; LACKNER, K, et al.
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 56 Issue: 20 Pages: 2187-2190 Published:
MAY 19 1986
Times Cited: 54
H-MODE OF W7-AS STELLARATOR
Author(s): WAGNER, F; BALDZUHN, J; BRAKEL, R, et al.
Source: PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION Volume: 36 Issue: 7 Pages: A61A74 Supplement: A Published: JUL 1994
Times Cited: 52
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