Winners

2023 (18th)

Winner

(no winner)

Hightly reccomended

Mario Raeth (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)
"Excitation of high frequency waves in 6D kinetic Vlasov ITG simulatio"

Jean Cazabonne (EPFL ‐ Swiss Plasma Center)
"Experimental and numerical evidence of electron turbulent transport enhancement by electron-cyclotron waves in tokamaks"

Olivier Panico (LPP Polytechnique & CEA Cadarache)
"Transport and zonal flows dynamics in flux-driven interchange and drift waves turbulence"

Reviewers

A. Fujisawa (Japan)

A. Fukuyama,(Japan)

K. Ida (Japan)

T. Ido (Japan)

K. Itoh (Japan)

K. Hallatshek (Germany)

Minh Quang Tran (Switzerland)

U. Stroth (Germany)

X Garbet (France)

2022 (17th)

Winner

Ralf Mackenbach (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
"Available energy and its relation to turbulent transport"

Hightly reccomended

Zongyu Yang (Southwestern Institute of Physics, People’s Republic of China)
"An interpretable, transferable, and real-time disruption predictor in HL-2A based on deep learning"

Paul Mulholland (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
"KBM and finite beta ITG turbulence in the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator"

Reviewers

A. Fujisawa (Japan)

O. Grulke (Germany)

K. Ida (Japan)

T. Ido (Japan)

S. Inagaki (Japan)

K. Itoh (Japan)

P. Manz (Germany)

Minh Quang Tran (Swiss)

W. Morris (U.K)

F. Wagner (Germany)

M. Yagi (Jpn)

F. Zonca (Italy)

2021 (16th)

Winner

Samuele Mazzi (Aix-Marseille University and CEA IRFM, France)
"Suppression of ion-scale turbulent transport by MeV-range fast ions at JET"

Hightly reccomended

Diego Jose Cruz Zabala (U.Seville – Spain – Characterization of edge poloidal impurity asymmetries at ASDEX Upgrade)
"Characterization of edge poloidal impurity asymmetries at ASDEX Upgrade"

Nicola Offeddu (EPFL – Switzerland – Direct measurements of parallel blob extension)
"Direct measurements of parallel blob extension"

Prapti Bajaj (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- and Raumfahrt – Germany – Wave turbulence in fluid complex plasmas)
"Wave turbulence in fluid complex plasmas"

Reviewers

A. Fujisawa (Japan)

A. Fukuyama (Japan)

C. Hidalgo (Spain)

T. Ido (Japan)

S. Inagaki (Japan)

K. Itoh (Japan)

T. Klinger (Germany)

P. Manz (Germany)

Minh Quang Tran (Swiss)

W. Morris (U.K)

2019 (15th)

Winner

Til Ullmann (Stuttgart University)
"Shrinking of resonant manifold under flow shear at the stellarator TJ-K"

Hightly reccomended

Aylwin Lantchenko (EPFL)
"Modeling of Turbulent fluctuations measured in the TCV tokamak with gyrokinetc simulations and a synthetic phase contrast imaging diagnostic"

Reviewers

A. Fujisawa (Kyushu Univ. Japan)

A. Fukuyama (Kyoto Univ. Japan)

K. Ida (NIFS Japan)

S. Inagaki (Kyushu Univ. Japan)

T. Klinger (Max-Planck Institute, Germany)

K. McCarthy (CIEMAT Spain)

O. Schmidt (Wisconsin Univ. USA)

2018(14th)

Winner

A. J. Creely MIT, USA)
"Cross-Machine Validation of TGLF and GENE on Alcator C-Mod and ASDEX Upgrade"

Hightly reccomended

Ondrej Grover (CAS IoP and CTU, Czech Republic)
"Search for zonal structures on the radial electric field and Reynolds stress profiles on COMPASS"

Luis Gil (IST, Portugal)
"Edge instabilities across the L-H transition and in H-mode of ASDEX Upgrade"

Reviewers

A. Fujisawa (Kyushu Univ. Japan)

T. Carter (U.S.A)

A. Fukuyama (Kyoto Univ. Japan)

S. Inagaki (Kyushu Univ. Japan)

K. McCarthy (CIEMAT Spain)

U. Stroth (Germany)

2017 (13th)

Winner

Matteo Fontana(EPFL, Switzerland)
"Turbulence measurements with the Correlation Electron Cyclotron Emission (CECE) diagnostic in TCV"

Hightly reccomended

Nicola Bonanomi (Università di Milano-Bicocca & JET)
"Role of small-scale tubulence and multi-scale interactions in electron heat transport in JET"

Alsu Sladkomedova (Ioffe Institute)
"Impurity transport studies on the Globus-M tokamak"

Reviewers

J. Citrin (Netherlands)

A. Fujisawa (Chair, Japan)

A. Fukuyama (Japan)

S. Inagaki(Japan)

T. Klinger (Germany)

E. Westerhof (Netherlands)

F. Zonca (Italy)

2016 (12th)

Winner

Anna Medvedeva Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Institut Jean Lamour UMR 7198 CNRS, Universite de Lorraine, CEA, IRFM Technische Universität München)
"Density profile and turbulence evolution during L-H transitions studied with the ultra-fast swept reflectometer on ASDEX Upgrade"

Hightly reccomended

S. Thrysøe (DTU)
"Gas puff fuelling simulation with a combined neutral/HESEL model"

A. Lebschy (IPP, TU Munich)
"Measurement of the ExB velocity across the LOC-SOC transition"

Reviewers

S.-I. itoh (Japan)

A. Fujisawsa (Japan)

C. Hidalgo (Spain)

K. Itoh (Japan)

P. Ricci (Swiss)

R. Weynants (Belgium)

2015 (11th)

Winner

Bernhard Schmid (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
"Investigation of the energy transfer to zonal flows at the stellarator TJ-K"

Hightly reccomended

Claudia Norscini (CEA,France)
"From zonation to turbulent regime in edge plasma"

Mrco Cavedon (IPP, Germany)
"Study of the edge radial electric field during L-H transition at ASDEX Upgrade"

Reviewers

S.-I. Itoh (Japan)

I. Forno (Swiss)

K. Ida (Japan)

S. Inagaki (Japan)

K. Itoh (Japan)

V. Nauline (Denmark)

G. Tynan (U.S.A.)

C. Hidalgo (Spain)

2014 (10th)

Winner

Zhouji Huang (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))
"Investigation of plasma turbulence and geodesic acoustic modes using tangential phase-contrast imaging in the TCV tokamak"

Hightly reccomended

Bernhard Schmid (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
"Zonal flow formation in the stellarator TJ-K"

Mervat Madi (CEA, France, American Univ. Beirut)
"Effect of density fluctuations n the scrape-off layer on the lower hybrid power spectrum"

Reviewers

S.-I. Itoh (Japan)

A. Fasoli (Swiss)

I. Furnno (Swiss)

K. Ida(Japan)

K. Itoh(Japan)

V. Naulin(Denmark)

U. Stroth(Germany)

2013 (9th)

Winner

Farah Hariri (CEA, IRFM, France)
"A Flux-Coordinate Independent Field-Aligned Approach to Plasma Turbulence Simulations"

Hightly reccomended

Alexey B Altukohov (Ioff Institute, Russia)
"Turbulence wave number spectra in the FT-2 tokamak by radial correlation Doppler reflectometry"

Julien Dominski (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Simulating the effect of fine radial structures resulting from non-adiabatic passing electrons on turbulent in the ITG and TEM regimes"

Reviewers

S.-I. Itoh (Japan)

A. Fasoli (Swiss)

A. Fujisawa (Japan)

E. Gusakov (Russia)

C. Hidalgo (Spain)

K. Itoh (Japan)

U. Stroth (Germany)

2012 (8th)

Winner

Ilya Shesterikov (Ecole Royale Militaire, Belguim)
"The experimental investigation on the role of E x B flow shear in tilting and breaking of turbulent eddies"

Hightly reccomended

Benedict Geiger (IPP, Germany)
"Investigation of the fast-ion transport by FIDA spectroscopy at ASDEX Upgrade"

John hillesheim (UCLA USA)
"Observation of a critical gradient threshold for elestron temperature fluctuations in the DIII-D"

Reviewers

S.-I. Itoh (Japan)

E. Gusakov (Russia)

K. Itoh (Japan)

R. Kodama (Japan)

J. Lister (Swiss)

G. Morales (US)

V. Naulin (Denmark)

2011 (7th)

Winner

Natalia Kosolapova (Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russia and Université Henri Poincaré, France)
"Numerical modelling of turbulence wave number spectra reconstruction using radial correlation reflectometry in Tore Supra and FT-2 tokamaks"

Hightly reccomended

Alejandro Bañón Navarro (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
"Free-Energy transfers in gyrokinetic turbulence"

Daniel Carralero (CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain)
"Recent results on the search for self organisation of plasma edge fluctuations"

Reviewers

S.-I. Itoh (Japan)

G. Bonhomme (France)

A. Fujisawa (Japan)

K. Itoh (Japan)

F. Zonca (Italy)

2010 (6th)

Winner

Gregor Birkenmeier (Stuttgart University)
"Experimental investigation of effects of the magnetic field geometry on turbulent transport"

Hightly reccomended

Niels Guertler (IPP Garching)
"Numerial studies of zonal flow turbulence interaction"

Christian Maszl (Innsbruck)
"On the genesis of closed current filaments in the edge of JET"

Reviewers

S.-I. Itoh (Japan)

G. Bonhomme(France)

K. Itoh(Japan)

V. Naulin(Denmark)

F. Wagner(ggermany)

2009 (5th)

Winner

Tim Happel (EURATOM-CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain)
"Perpendicular plasma velocity and radial electric field profiles measured by Doppler reflectometry in the stellarator TJ-II"

Hightly reccomended

Alessandro Casati (EURATOM-CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain)
"Turbulence in Tore-Supra plasmas: mesurements and validation of nonlinear simulations"

Christian Theiler (EPFL, Switzerland)
"Study of filament motion and their active control"

Reviewers

S.-I. Itoh (Japan)

G. Bonhomme (France)

S. Chapman (UK)

K. Itoh (Japan)

U. Stroth (Germany)

2008 (4th)

Winner

Stella Oldenbürger (Nancy University, France)
"Investigation of cross-field transport in a linear magnetized plasma"

Hightly reccomended

Nizar Ben Ayed (UKAEA, UK)
"Edge turbulence studies of inter-ELM periods on MAST"

Silvia Perri (University of Calabria, Italy)
"Superdiffusive transport of energetic particles throuh the heliosphere"

Reviewers

S.-I. Itoh

P. H. Diamond

A. Fukuyama

M. Koepke

P. Monier-Garbet

U. Stroth

2007 (3rd)

Winner

Peter Manz (Universitat Stuttgart, Germany)
"Experimental estimation of nonlinear energy transfer in two-dimensional plasma turbulence"

Hightly reccomended

Andreas Schmid (IPP Garching, Germany)
"Characterization of Type-1 ELM induced filaments in ASDEX Upgrade"

Robert Wicks (University of Wawick, UK)
"Using mutual information to quanrify spatial correlation between simultaneous spacecraft measurements of solar wind plasma turbulence"

Reviewers

S.-I. Itoh

D. Ryutov

A. Fukuyuma

F. Wagner

2006 (2nd)

Winner

Paolo Angelino (CRPP-EPFL-Lausanne,Switaerland)
"Plasma elongation and magnetic shear effects in nonlinear simulations of ITG-zonal flow turbulencev"

Hightly reccomended

Rory Scannell (UKAEA, Abingdon, UK)
"ELM filament Studies using the edge Thomson Scattering Diagnostic on MAST"

Stefan Müller (CRPP-EPFL-Lausanne,Switaerland)
"Real space statistical characterization of turbulence and transport in the TORPEX axperiment"

Sambaran Pahari (IPR, Gandhinager, India)
"Experiments and Simulation in Small Aspect Ratio Toroidal Electron Plasma"

Reviewers

S.-I. Itoh (Japan)

M. Kaepke ( U.S.A.)

U. Samm (Germany)

A. Fukuyama (Japan)

2005 (1st))

Winner

Oliver Schmitz (Institute for Plasma Physics, FZ Juich,Germany)
"Impact of the dynamic ergodic divertor on the structure of the plasma edge at TEXTOR"

Hightly reccomended

J.Horacek (CRPP EPFL, Switzerland)
"Plasma density turbulence in TCV tokamak edgedirect comparison of experiment with 2D simulations"

TT Ribriro (Centro de Fusão Nuclear, Portugal)
"Gyrofluid turbulence computations in the edge and SOL regions of tokamak plasmas using realistic magnetic field geometry"

Reviewers

S.-I. Itoh (kyushu-univ)

M. Koepke (Univ.West Virginia)

Y. Miura (QST)