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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T.O.S.J. Bosman,I.G.J. Classen,T. A. Wijkamp,A. Perek,G.L. Derks,J.T.W. Koenders,L. Martinelli,R.J.E. Jaspers
Demonstration of a sparse sensor placement technique to the limited diagnostic set in a fusion power plant
Fusion Engineering and Design (2024) -
T. Wijkamp,M. Hoppe,J. Decker,B. Duval,A. Perek,U. Sheikh,I. Classen,R. Jaspers
Resonant interaction between runaway electrons and the toroidal magnetic field ripple in TCV
Nuclear Fusion (2024) -
F. Reimold,R.J.E. Jaspers,O.P. Ford,L. Vanó,T. Klinger
Suppression of anomalous impurity transport in NBI-heated W7-X plasmas
Nuclear Fusion (2023) -
F. Reimold,R.J.E. Jaspers,A.J. Edmondson,O.P. Ford,B. Geiger,S. Jabłoński,M. Kubkowska,P. Zs Poloskei,L. Vanó,T. Klinger
Evaluation and validation of radial impurity density profiles from CXRS using neutral beam modelling in W7-X
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (2023) -
T. Wijkamp,J.S. Allcock,X. Feng,B. Lipschultz,K. Verhaegh,B. Duval,J. Harrison,L. Kogan,N. Lonigro,A. Perek
Characterisation of detachment in the MAST-U Super-X divertor using multi-wavelength imaging of 2D atomic and molecular emission processes
Nuclear Fusion (2023)
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
- organiseren en uitvoeren van cursussen op het gebied van Kernfusie, Fusion Academy
- bestuursfunctie, stichting groene economie limburg
- Gast hoogleraar, Universiteit Gent