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  1. About me
  2. Contact and social media
  3. Work/Research experience
  4. Publications
  5. Conferences
  6. Teaching
  7. Education

Hi, I’m Alex. A plasma physicist. I use computer simulations to model plasma inside of tokamaks. I work for the the UK Atomic Energy Authority at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire. I am currently helping to design a fusion reactor called the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production which is a UK based nuclear fusion power plant which we aim to build by 2040.

My research interests include:

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Fig. 1 Picture of me next to a tokamak at the Culham Science Centre for Fusion Energy.
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Fig. 2 Picture of me at the St Andrews pier.

Contact and social media

If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to email me at aleksyprok@gmail.com. Here are links to my LinkedIn, Stack Exchange, GitHub and Google Scholar accounts.

Publications

Papers

Thesis

Work/Research experience

Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Fast Particle Modeller

September 2021 - Present

University of St Andrews, Research fellow

March 2021 – September 2021

I helped develop a Fortran code called Hexa to extrapolate the solar coronal magnetic field from magnetograms. I improved the accuracy of the code by allowing it fully utilise more data provided by the magnetograms. I helped improved the efficiency of the code by helping to parallelise it using MPI.

University of St Andrews, PhD Mathematics

September 2017 – March 2021 (passed viva 2nd June 2021)

My PhD used computer simulations to model MHD waves in the solar corona, working with Prof Alan Hood, Prof Ineke De Moortel, Dr Andrew Wright and funded by STFC. The areas I worked in were:

Conferences and seminars

Teaching

Each semester of my PhD, I have assisted with the teaching in the maths department at St Andrews. My teaching has mainly involved supervising computer workshops. This is where the students are given computer assignments to work on, e.g. create a program to output the first n Pythagorean triples. My job is to answer questions and deal with any computer-related issues the students have. I have also taught tutorial classes, and this is where we discuss a problem sheet with a class of 10 students.

The classes I have taught are:

Education

Unviversity of St Andrews, BSc Mathematics (First Class)

September 2014 - May 2017