Jeff Candy General Atomics

Dr. Candy is a principal scientist in the Fusion Group at General Atomics. He is presently engaged in core plasma transport research, with primary focus on gyrokinetic theory. Together with R.E. Waltz, he developed the GYRO code. Dr. Candy received his Ph.D. from UCSD in 1994 under the supervision of M.N. Rosenbluth. He was visiting scientist at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility during 1995-96, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Fusion Studies in Texas from 1996-98, before coming to General Atomics in 1998. He has worked on a variety of topics in linear and nonlinear kinetic theory. He first pointed out the danger of very-high-n TAE modes in burning plasmas, predicted the existence of LSTAE modes, and made the first self-consistent estimates of alpha-particle transport in reactors due to TAE and fishbone modes. As an M.Sc. student he made some contributions to the field of geometric integrators. Dr. Candy has received various Canadian awards, including the Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction. In 2003, he was the inaugural recipient of the Rosenbluth award for fusion theory.