KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr.-Ing. Gerald PINTSUK
Current positions
Head of the High Temperature Materials Laboratory at Institute of Energy and Climate Research 4, FZJ (since 2012)
EUROfusion, Project Leader for Work Package Materials (since 2017)
Previous positions (two selected)
EUROfusion, Group Leader for WPMAT-High Heat Flux Materials (2014-2016)
Research Scientist, Institute of Energy and Climate Research 2, FZJ (2004-2012)
After getting my PhD at the RWTH Aachen in 2004 and working as Post-Doc at Forschungszentrum Jülich, I became the head of the High Temperature Materials Laboratory at Forschungszentrum Jülich in 2012, focusing on characterization of the performance and damage analyses of non-irradiated and irradiated plasma facing materials and components when exposed to high heat fluxes. Since 2017, I took over the role of Project Leader for the Work Package Materials covering topics from material design interface via structural, high heat flux and functional material development, characterization, and qualification to irradiation modelling.
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Dr. Beatriz BRAÑAS
Senior Researcher - Head of IFMIF Unit. CIEMAT (Spain)
Dr. Sebastijan BREZINSEK
EUROfusion Project Leader Plasma-Wall Interactions and Exhaust
Ahmed Diallo
Program Director, ARPA-E, Washington DC, United States
Dr. Mark GILBERT
Head of research programme for fusion materials interfaces at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)
Dr. Jae-Hwan KIM
Senior principal researcher at Breeding Functional Materials Development Group, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Japan.
Prof. Akira HASEGAWA
Professor emeritus, Tohoku University, JAPAN
Prof. Xiaodong MAO
College of Sciences, Shanghai University (China)
Dr. Frederique PELLEMOINE
Senior Scientist
Prof. Haishan ZHOU
Director of Fusion Reactor Materials and Components Division, Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences