Felix Warmer
Department / Institute
RESEARCH PROFILE
Felix aims to solve the energy and climate crisis by bringing sustainable as well as affordable fusion power to the energy grid. To achieve this, a fusion power plant – one of the most complex machines ever to be envisioned by mankind – must be designed in an attractive and holistic manner. Felix is working to accelerate such design activities by developing the “digital twin” of a fusion power plant following the stellarator concept. This virtual counterpart allows to integrate the complex physics, engineering, as well as economic considerations and constraints into a single modelling platform concurrently matching the interaction of all system components. Felix tackles this multidisciplinary endeavour by closely cooperating with respective experts around Europe and the World in a closely linked network. He is convinced that the virtual design optimisation of the digital twin will accelerate the deployment of fusion energy for the benefit of mankind.
Like building a Cathedral, Nuclear Fusion is a visionary and monumental endeavour, and once successful, will leave generations in awe.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Felix Warmer obtained his MSc in Physics at the Universität Leipzig, Germany, while carrying out his master thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany – the fusion research institute that is hosting the advanced stellarator Wendelstein 7-X. He continued to work there as a PhD being awarded “summa cum laude” by the Technische Universität Berlin in 2016. He then obtained a Feodor Lynen Research Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which he carried out with the support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the National Institute for Fusion Science in Japan. He then went back to work for the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald, first as a postdoctoral fellow and soon after as a permanent staff scientist. In 2022 he was appointed as a tenured Assistant Professor at TU/e.
Recent Publications
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O. Grulke,C. Albert,J. A.Alcuson Belloso,P. Aleynikov,K. Aleynikova,A. Alonso,G. Anda,T. Andreeva,M. Arvanitou,E. Ascasibar
Overview of the first Wendelstein 7-X long pulse campaign with fully water-cooled plasma facing components
Nuclear Fusion (2024) -
K. Ida,M. Yoshinuma,M. Kobayashi,T. Kobayashi,N. Kenmochi,F. Nespoli,R. M. Magee,F. Warmer,A. Dinklage,A. Matsuyama
Overview of Large Helical Device experiments of basic plasma physics for solving crucial issues in reaching burning plasma conditions
Nuclear Fusion (2024) -
Felix Wilms,Alejandro Bañón Navarro,Thomas Windisch,Sergey Bozhenkov,Felix Warmer,Golo Fuchert,Oliver Ford,Daihong Zhang,Torsten Stange,Frank Jenko
Global gyrokinetic analysis of Wendelstein 7-X discharge
Nuclear Fusion (2024) -
T. Lyytinen,A. Snicker,J. Virtanen,I. Palermo,J. Alguacil,Timo Bogaarts,F. Warmer
Proof-of-principle of parametric stellarator neutronics modeling using Serpent2
Nuclear Fusion (2024) -
Felix Warmer,J. Alguacil,D. Biek,T. Bogaarts,G. Bongiovì,V. Bykov,J.P. Catalán,R.K. Duligal,I. Fernández-Berceruelo,S. Giambrone
Overview of European efforts and advances in Stellarator power plant studies
Fusion Engineering and Design (2024)
Current Educational Activities
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