Amro Bader

I am presently a PhD researcher in Fusion Materials Science and Engineering, supervised jointly by the University of Manchester and the United Kingdom’s Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). My PhD will focus on the Deuterium-Tritium (DT) fuel cycle – a high-priority area for practical realization of fusion energy – by developing computer models to predict the transport behavior of Tritium for next generation fusion reactors.

Just prior joining the CDT, I had been actively involved with the ITER project for the past 5 years, developing first-of-a-kind diagnostic components ranging from x-ray to visible spectroscopy systems, aimed for studying fusion plasmas inside the tokamak’s core. I collaborated in due projects with multiple fusion labs including Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and others in Korea and the EU. Prior to ITER, I spent three years working at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, where I designed a Radio Frequency antenna aimed for heating the DT fuel mix to fusion-relevant temperatures inside the European DEMO project. I collaborated, in this role, with several European fusion labs, and particularly with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Germany), where I spent one year doing research with the Solid Breeding-Blanket design group for European DEMO. My research at the Max Planck Institute and KIT was funded by a grant from the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy (EUROfusion).

I obtained a Bachelors in electrical engineering from Mutah University in Jordan and a Masters in nuclear engineering from Ecole des Mines, France, and spent 6 months doing a master-internship in fundamental nuclear physics at Canada’s National Particle Accelerator Centre (TRIUMF). Following graduation from France, I worked briefly as an academic staff at Khalifa University in the UAE, before eventually joining the global quest for fusion energy.

Supervisors

• Prof Philip Edmondson