Taik Soo Hahm of West Windsor was honored on November 22 by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) when he received the Kaul Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research and Technology Development. A physicist, he was cited for his analysis of plasma simulations and measurements in fusion energy research. Plasma is a hot, gaseous state of matter used as the fuel to produce fusion energy — the power source of the sun and the stars.##M:[more]##
“Taik Soo has been a world leader bringing analytic theory to bear on understanding both massive computational and detailed experimental results in the area of fusion plasma turbulence,” said PPPL Director Rob Goldston.
Hahm is the head of the Transport and Turbulence Science Focus Group at PPPL and the group leader in analytic theory at the Laboratory’s Theory Department. He joined PPPL’s research staff in 1986 after receiving a B.S. in physics from the Seoul National University in Korea in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University in 1984. He previously worked for two years as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He was elected a Fellow of American Physical Society in 1995.
