Hanna Schamis will be the first RSSEL graduate student to conduct research at ITER during her five month internship opportunity at the world’s largest fusion experiment in Spring 2017. Under the supervision of  Gregory de Temmerman, Coordinating Scientist Plasma Edge & PWI Science and Operations Department (SCOD)/Science Division (SD)/Tungsten Divertor & Plasma-Wall Interactions Section (TDPW),  Hanna will be working on the modeling of erosion /deposition on ITER first mirrors during glow discharge cleaning. The internship at ITER facilities in Saint Paul Lez Durance, France is an exciting opportunity that will strengthen collaboration in PMI research with Illinois, NPRE and Professor Allain’s RSSEL research group.

The ITER project is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject, which will be the world’s largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment. It is an experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor that is being built in Cadarache, southern France.