Steven Cowley Explained

Honorific Prefix:Sir
Steve Cowley
Birth Name:Steven Charles Cowley
Order:7th
Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Term Start:1 July 2018
President:Donald Trump
Joe Biden
Predecessor:Richard J. Hawryluk (interim)
Order1:31st
Title1:President of the Corpus Christi College
Term Start1:1 October 2016
Term End1:30 September 2018
Predecessor1:Richard Carwardine
Successor1:Helen Moore
Birth Place:Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England[1]
Children:Sean Cowley and Brendan Cowley
Module:
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Thesis Title:Some Aspects of Anomalous Transport in Tokamaks: Stochastic Magnetic Fields, Tearing Modes and Nonlinear Ballooning Instabilities (Convection)
Thesis Url:http://search.proquest.com/docview/303381032
Thesis Year:1985
Awards:Knight Bachelor (2018)
Glazebrook Medal (2012)[2]
Harkness Fellowship (1981–83)

Sir Steven Charles Cowley (born 1959) is a British theoretical physicist and international authority on nuclear fusion and astrophysical plasmas. He has served as director of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) since 1 July 2018.[3] Previously he served as president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, since October 2016. and head of the EURATOM / CCFE Fusion Association and chief executive officer of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).

Education

Cowley won a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Oxford and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics in 1981. He went on to study at Princeton University as a Harkness Fellow and was awarded a PhD in 1985 for research into tokamaks supervised by Russell Kulsrud.[4] [5]

Career and research

Following his PhD, Cowley completed postdoctoral research at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE). He returned to Princeton in 1987 and joined the faculty at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1993, becoming full professor in 2000. At Imperial College, London, Cowley led the plasma physics group from 2001 to 2003, while also serving as a part-time professor.[6] [7] He was appointed as the head of the EURATOM / CCFE Fusion Association in September 2008 and as CEO of UKAEA in November 2009.

On 18 March 2015, he was elected the 31st President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, his alma mater: he took up the post on 1 October 2016. He is the first scientist to hold the post.[8]

On 1 July 2018, he was appointed director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).[9]

Cowley's research interests are in plasmas and nuclear fusion, in astrophysical plasmas and the laboratory, such as the Joint European Torus (JET) and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] His research has been funded by Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[17] [18] Cowley co-chaired the National Academy of Sciences assessment of plasma science in the United States.[19] [20]

Awards and honours

Cowley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. His biography reads;

His certificate of election reads:

Cowley was also elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1998,[21] the Institute of Physics (FInstP) in 2004[22] and the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2014.[23] He was awarded and honorary fellowship of the Institute of Engineering and Technology in 2015. In 2011, he was appointed to the UK Government's Council for Science and Technology.[24]

In the 2018 Birthday Honours, Cowley was appointed a Knight Bachelor for services to science and to the development of nuclear fusion. In July 2019, Cowley was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (honoris causa) by the University of Lancaster for his standing as the international authority on fusion energy.[25]

Notes and References

  1. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
  2. Web site: Professor Steven Cowley FREng FRS. https://archive.today/20141220142138/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/new-fellows-2014/fellows/cowley,-steven . dead . 2014-12-20 . raeng.org.uk.
  3. Web site: Steven Cowley named director of DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory . Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory . 16 June 2018 . 16 May 2018 . 28 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210928132112/https://www.pppl.gov/news/2018/05/steven-cowley-named-director-doe%E2%80%99s-princeton-plasma-physics-laboratory . dead .
  4. PhD . Steven Charles. Cowley . Some Aspects of Anomalous Transport in Tokamaks: Stochastic Magnetic Fields, Tearing Modes and Nonlinear Ballooning Instabilities (Convection) . Princeton University . 1985 . Steven Cowley. 77633911. .
  5. Web site: Professor Steve Cowley. Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. https://web.archive.org/web/20150416090354/http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/researcher_detail.aspx?id=27. 2015-04-16.
  6. Web site: Chief Executive Officer, Professor Steven Cowley. gov.uk. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000344/https://www.gov.uk/government/people/steven-cowley. 2016-03-04.
  7. Davies . Sean . 16 May 2011 . Q and A – Steve Cowley – Culham Centre for Fusion Energy . E&T: Engineering and Technology Magazine . The Institution of Engineering and Technology . 6 . 5 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714122655/http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2011/05/steve-cowley.cfm . 14 July 2014 . dmy-all .
  8. Web site: Corpus announces the election of its next President. https://web.archive.org/web/20150421191159/http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/News/a/Corpus-announces-the-election-of-its-next-President/. 2015-04-21. Corpus Christi College. Oxford.
  9. Web site: Steven Cowley named director of DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. 2018-05-16. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20180516154600/https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/05/16/steven-cowley-named-director-does-princeton-plasma-physics-laboratory. 2018-05-16.
  10. Ham. C J. Connor. J W. Cowley. S C. Hastie. R J. Hender. T C. Liu. Y Q. The role of pressure flattening in calculating tearing mode stability. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 55. 12. 2013. 125015. 0741-3335. 10.1088/0741-3335/55/12/125015. 1308.2070. 2013PPCF...55l5015H. 119516411 .
  11. Schekochihin. A. A.. Astrophysical Gyrokinetics: Kinetic and Fluid Turbulent Cascades in Magnetized Weakly Collisional Plasmas. Cowley. S. C.. Dorland. W.. Hammett. G. W.. Howes. G. G.. Quataert. E.. Tatsuno. T.. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 182. 1. 2009. 310–377. 0067-0049. 10.1088/0067-0049/182/1/310. 0704.0044. 2009ApJS..182..310S. 119630468.
  12. Schekochihin. Alexander A.. Cowley. Steven C.. Taylor. Samuel F.. Maron. Jason L.. McWilliams. James C.. Simulations of the Small-Scale Turbulent Dynamo. The Astrophysical Journal. 612. 1. 2004. 276–307. 0004-637X. 10.1086/422547. astro-ph/0312046. 2004ApJ...612..276S. 119444289.
  13. Cole. M D J. Newton. S L. Cowley. S C. Loureiro. N F. Dickinson. D. Roach. C. Connor. J W. Electromagnetic effects in the stabilization of turbulence by sheared flow. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 56. 1. 2014. 015007. 0741-3335. 10.1088/0741-3335/56/1/015007. 1308.0989. 2014PPCF...56a5007C. 118432893.
  14. Hammett. G W. Beer. M A. Dorland. W. Cowley. S C. Smith. S A. Developments in the gyrofluid approach to Tokamak turbulence simulations. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 35. 8. 1993. 973–985. 0741-3335. 10.1088/0741-3335/35/8/006. 1993PPCF...35..973H. 250771660 .
  15. Howes. Gregory G.. Cowley. Steven C.. Dorland. William. Hammett. Gregory W.. Quataert. Eliot. Schekochihin. Alexander A.. Astrophysical Gyrokinetics: Basic Equations and Linear Theory. The Astrophysical Journal. 651. 1. 2006. 590–614. 0004-637X. 10.1086/506172. astro-ph/0511812. 2006ApJ...651..590H. 15344422.
  16. Beer. M. A.. Cowley. S. C.. Hammett. G. W.. Field-aligned coordinates for nonlinear simulations of tokamak turbulence. Physics of Plasmas. 2. 7. 1995. 2687. 1070-664X. 10.1063/1.871232. 1995PhPl....2.2687B. 10.1.1.22.4582.
  17. Web site: Grants awarded to Steven Cowley, EURATOM/CCFE. Research Councils UK. Swindon. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103057/http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/person/A60CD70E-B37B-4C3D-AB13-69F9D6A623D6. 2016-03-04.
  18. Web site: Grants awarded to Steven Cowley, Imperial College London. Research Councils UK. Swindon. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043738/http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/person/80A806DA-F335-4A67-A97E-962050EACFF7. 2016-03-04.
  19. Plasma Science: Advancing Knowledge in the National Interest (National Academy Press 2007)
  20. , 2009-12-22
  21. Web site: List of Fellows of the American Physical Society. 2021-04-23. en.
  22. Web site: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory profile. 2021-04-23. en.
  23. Web site: List of Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering. 2021-04-23. en.
  24. Web site: UKAEA Steven Cowley to advise UK government. 2020-10-23. ITER. en.
  25. Web site: Honorary degree for Professor Sir Steven Cowley . www.lancaster.ac.uk . Lancaster University . 18 July 2019 . en.

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