Ellie Winkler

Eleanor Winkler is an incoming PhD student. She completed her bachelor's degree in physics at MIT and spent her undergraduate years experimenting with various fields to determine what she is most passionate about. Her introduction to fusion research was a summer internship in neutronics for blanket design for a fusion start-up, exploring breeders, moderators, and how to layer them for a D-D stellarator. After this experience, she continued to learn about fusion and plasma physics through her coursework. More recently, she sought to understand how the strength of magnetic fields change the ion fraction of an ion source in order to produce an H2+ beam for IsoDAR, a novel experiment that will probe particle physics beyond the standard model.