EDUCATION

PhD, Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Program in Plasma Physics

    Expected June 2015

    Thesis: “Resonant and Non-Resonant Electromagnetic Torques in Axisymmetric Plasma Devices”

MA, Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Program in Plasma Physics

    January 2012

BS, Brown University, Department of Physics

    May 2009, Magna Cum Laude, Honors

    Thesis: “Measurement of the Electromagnetic Torque on Rotating DIII-D Plasmas”

Honors and Awards

Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellow

    September 2010-

Mildred Widgoff Prize for Excellence in Thesis Preparation

    May 2009

Elected to Sigma Xi

    May 2009

American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Undergraduate Poster Award

    November 2008

National Undergraduate Fellow in Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy Sciences

    Summer 2008

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Society, Chapter Alpha of Rhode Island

    February 2008

Research Experience

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, NSTX group in collaboration with DIII-D

    November 2011-

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Beam Dynamics and Non-neutral Plasma Division

    October 2010-November 2011

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Lithium Tokamak eXperiment

    August 2009- October 2010

General Atomics DIII-D

    Summer 2008 on-site research, September 2008 - May 2005 off-site collaboration

Fermilab DØ, Collaboration from Brown University

    May 2007 - December 2007

Selected works

“Application of the Ideal Perturbed Equilibrium Code to Magnetic Diagnostic Designs in DIII-D”, N.C. Logan, E.J. Strait, J. Menard, J.K. Park, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Experimental Seminar, Princeton, USA. April, 2012.

“3D Fields and the Direct Measurement of Electromagnetic Torque in DIII-D”, N.C. Logan, E.J. Strait, J. Menard, J.K. Park, 2012 Joint Meeting of the US-Japan MHD Workshop and ITPA MHD Stability / Energetic Particle Topical Group, Toki, Japan. March, 2012.

“Thermodynamic Bounds on Nonlinear Electrostatic Fluctuations in Intense Charged Particle Beams”, N.C. Logan, R.C. Davidson, 2nd DOE SCGF Annual Research Meeting, Oak Ridge, USA. July, 2011.

“Magnetic Diagnostics for Equilibrium Reconstructions in the Presence of Nonaxisymmetric Eddy Current Distributions in Tokamaks (Invited)”, L. Berzak, A. Jones, R.Kaita, T. Kozub, N. Logan, R. Majeski, J. Menard, and L. Zakharov, Review of Scientific Instruments, 81, 10E114 (2010)

“Measurement of the Electromagnetic Torque in Rotating DIII-D Plasmas”, N.C. Logan, E.J. Strait & H. Reimerdes, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 52 (2010) 045013.

“3-D Modeling of Magnetic Fields for the Lithium Tokamak eXperiment”, N. Logan, L. Berzak, R. Kaita, R. Majeski, J. Menard, L. Zakharov, 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Chicago, USA. November, 2010.

“Measurement of the Electromagnetic Torque on a Rotating Plasma for DIII-D”, N. Logan, E.J. Strait, H. Reimerdes, 50nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Dallas, USA. November, 2008.