Carl Richard Sovinec is an American physicist from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Sovinec is the son of Dr. Richard and Cathleen Sovinec and a 1981 graduate of Winona Senior High School in Winona, Minnesota. He attended the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[1] He was awarded the status of Fellow[2] in the American Physical Society,[3] after they were nominated by their Division of Plasma Physics in 2009,[4] for using large scale magnetohydrodynamic simulation to elucidate the roles of reconnection, relaxation and transport in self-organization processes of low field magnetic confinement devices and for providing a primary scientific leadership role in the development of the NIMROD project.