Carl Sovinec University of Wisconsin

Carl R. Sovinec is an Associate Professor of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he has been on the faculty since June, 2001. His research interests lie in computational plasma physics and magnetohydrodynamics and in numerical methods for solving partial differential equations. He received his BS from the United States Air Force Academy in 1985, an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington in 1987, and a PhD in Plasma Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995. He served as a commissioned officer in the regular Air Force from 1985-1991, including four years as a research officer at the Phillips Laboratory in Albuquerque, NM. As a postdoctoral research associate and staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory over the period of 1995-2001, he authored a large fraction of the NIMROD physics kernel. He has continued to be directly involved in algorithm and code development and now leads the multi-institutional team. He has over 30 journal publications in the area of computational plasma physics and is currently advising six PhD thesis students.