Tom H Osborne

Thomas H. Osborne earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1984, at which time he joined General Atomics to work in the MHD stability and physics operations group of DIII-D. He developed many of the plasma shape control algorithms initially used on DIII-D and in the current digital shape control system. His main area of research has been H-mode physics. Dr. Osborne was cochair of the Pedestal Topical Group of the International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) until 2003.