Graduate Student
Freddie is a PhD student in the Fusion Research Center; he joined in 2023. He worked in the electric propulsion industry for several years before starting graduate school to work in fusion. His research at Columbia is focused on tokamak pulse planning, specifically trajectory and start-up optimization using open source codes, including TokaMaker and TORAX.
Advisor: Carlos Paz-Soldan
Research Focus: tokamak pulse planning and optimization