Roger Jaspers
Department / Institute
RESEARCH PROFILE
Roger Jaspers is an Associate Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and parttime Professor at Ghent University in Belgium. His main areas of expertise include enegetic particles in fusion plasmas, alternative fusion concepts, plasma physics and spectroscopic diagnostization of ion processes in fusion plasmas (temperature, transport, flow, fast particles)
Roger’s present research focuses on spectroscopic methods to diagnose the ion population in fusion plasmas, with special emphasis on fusion born (energetic) alpha particles. For this purpose, the group collaborates with the international fusion experiments W7-X (Germany), JET (UK) and KSTAR (Korea). . Roger also leads the scientific R&D of the instrumentation development of this CXRS system for ITER.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Roger Jaspers has been a self-described ‘fusion aficionado’ since he started his PhD in 1991. In addition to organizing the interdisciplinary Fusion master program at the TU/e which started in 2012, he is chairman of the European network on fusion education: FUSENET, a member of the steering committee of the Erasmus Mundus Programme FUSION-DC and initiator of the FusionAcademy. He was seconded by FOM Rijnhuizen (presently DIFFER) to the TEXTOR tokamak in Germany for 15 year, with short visits to JET in between. Here, he was primarily involved in the study of relativistic electrons, spectroscopy, transport and MHD. At strategic level, he was involved as member of the executive Board of ITER-NL: a consortium of NRG, TU/e, TNO and FOM.
Roger also regularly contributes to leading journals, conferences and workshops. He has authored over 90 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals, on topics ranging from relativistic electrons, energy transport in plasmas, rotation, magneto-hydro-dynamics, spectroscopy and instrumentation development.
Recent Publications
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H. Reimerdes,M. Agostini,E. Alessi,S. Alberti,Y. Andrebe,H. Arnichand,J. Balbin,F. Bagnato,M. Baquero-Ruiz,M. Bernert
Overview of the TCV tokamak experimental programme
Nuclear Fusion (2022) -
T.A. Wijkamp,A. Perek,J. Decker,B. Duval,M. Hoppe,G. Papp,U.A. Sheikh,I.G.J. Classen,R.J.E. Jaspers
Tomographic reconstruction of the runaway distribution function in TCV using multispectral synchrotron images
Nuclear Fusion (2021) -
R.H.S. Bude,D. van Eester,J. van Dijk,R.J.E. Jaspers,A.B. Smolders
Accelerating simulations of electromagnetic waves in hot, magnetized fusion plasmas
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (2021) -
O. P. Ford,L. Vanó,J.A. Alonso,J. Baldzuhn,M. N.A. Beurskens,C. Biedermann,S. A. Bozhenkov,G. Fuchert,B. Geiger,D. Hartmann
Charge exchange recombination spectroscopy at Wendelstein 7-X
Review of Scientific Instruments (2020) -
R. Jaspers,J. Khachan
Measurements of diverging ion motion in an inertial electrostatic confinement device using Doppler spectroscopy
Physics of Plasmas (2019)
Current Educational Activities
- Fusion on the back of an envelope
- Heating and diagnosing fusion plasmas
- Magnetic confinement and MHD of fusion plasmas
- Fusion Master class: Design of a fusion power plant: System engineering and Nuclear technology
- Fusion Master class: Smarter than ITER
- Physics of energy: sources, transport and storage
- Fusion master class: Computational fusion
- Homologation for fusion
Ancillary Activities
- Gast hoogleraar, Universiteit Gent
- organiseren en uitvoeren van cursussen op het gebied van Kernfusie, Fusion Academy
- bestuursfunctie, stichting groene economie limburg