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Overview

Project D

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  • Topic: NRD stellarator science, STAR_Lite experiment

  • Year started: 2026

  • Affiliations: Hampton University, Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator 

  • Collaborations: 

  • Facilities: STAR_Lite

  • Codes: GACODE suite, CGYRO

  • Funding: Simons Foundation, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Project B 

Project C

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  • Topic: Impurity transport in magnetic confinement plasmas

  • Year started:  2023

  • Affiliations: MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Postdoctoral Associate

  • Collaborations: MFE-IM, DIII-D National Fusion Facility, General Atomics, IPP Garching, CEA 

  • Facilities: DIII-D, WEST, KSTAR, Perlmutter, MIT Engaging

  • Codes: GACODE suite, CGYRO, PORTALS

  • Funding: U.S. Dept. of Energy, NERSC

Project B

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  • Topic: Electron Cyclotron Emission diagnostic of thermal and suprathermal electrons in magnetic confinement plasmas 

  • Year started: 2018

  • Affiliations: EPFL Swiss Plasma Center, PhD research Assistant 

  • Collaborations: CNR Milano

  • Facilities: TCV

  • Codes: SPECE

  • Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Project A

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  • Topic: Neural Network for fast computation of plasma transport 

  • Year started:  2017

  • Affiliations: Politecnico di Torino,  Msc Research Assistant

  • Collaborations: GA Fusion Theory group

  • Facilities: DIII-D

  • Codes: GACODE suite, NEO 

  • Funding: Politecnico di Torino, BANCA SELLA 

Publications

Other lists on Google Scholar / Orcid 

  1. SK. Kim et al. incl. A. Tema Biwole, Developing the hybrid scenario in       DIII-D and KSTAR for W-compatible long-pulse operation, Nuclear Fusion,   05/2026 [C]

  2. X. Litaudon et al. incl. A. Tema Biwole, First DIII-D-West hybrid scenario   experiments for ITER-relevant long-pulse operation, Plasma Physics and     Controlled Fusion, doi: 10.1088/1361-6587/ae5adb, 05/2026 [C]

  3. A. Tema Biwole et al., Effects of tungsten radiative cooling on impurity,     heat and momentum transport in DIII-D plasmas, arXiv e-prints, 
    doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2604.06096, 04/2026 [C]

  4. L. Votta et al. incl. A. Tema Biwole, Experimental and numerical                 investigation of suprathermal electron dynamics using vertical electron     cyclotron emission, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion,
    doi: 10.1088/1361-6587/ae3344, 01/2026 [B]

  5. A. Tema Biwole et al., Cross-calibration and first vertical ECE                       measurement of electron energy distribution in the TCV tokamak,               Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, doi: 10.1088/1361-6587/ad88a0,       11/2024 [B]

  6. J. Decker et al. incl. A. Tema Biwole, Expulsion of runaway electrons         using ECRH in the TCV tokamak, Nuclear Fusion, doi: 10.1088/1741-             4326/ad6c61, 08/2024 [B]

  7. A. Tema Biwole et al., Vertical electron cyclotron emission diagnostic on   the tokamak à configuration variable, Review of Scientific Instruments,
    doi: 10.1063/5.0156000, 10/2023 [B]

  8. J. Cazabonne et al. incl. A. Tema Biwole, Experimental and numerical         investigations of electron transport enhancement by electron-cyclotron     plasma-wave interaction in tokamaks, Plasma Physics and Controlled           Fusion, doi: 10.1088/1361-6587/acf39c, 09/2023 [B]

  9. A. Tema Biwole, Measuring  the electron energy distribution from             polarized electron cyclotron radiation, PhD thesis EPFL,
    doi: 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9882, 03/2023 [B]

  10. A. Tema Biwole et al., Performance of a high vacuum, high temperature   compatible millimeter-range viewing dump for the vertical ECE                     experiment on TCV, Fusion Engineering and Design, doi: 10.1088/1741- 4326/abb918, 01/2021 [B]

  11. O. Meneghini et al. incl. A. Tema Biwole, Neural-network accelerated       coupled core-pedestal simulations with self-consistent transport of             impurities and compatible with ITER IMAS, Nuclear Fusion,
    doi: 10.1088/1741-4326/abb918, 2020 [A]

  12. D. Choi et al. incl. A. Tema Biwole, Suprathermal electron driven                 fishbone instability in the TCV tokamak, Plasma Physics and Controlled         Fusion, doi: 10.1088/1361-6587/ab5147, 11/2019 [B]

  13. A. Tema Biwole, Neural network for fast calculation of the bootstrap         current, MSc thesis Politecnico di Torino,                                                     webthesis.biblio.polito.it/7854/1, 08/2018 [A]

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