Nuno Loureiro | MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Datta arms crossed in hall in front of photo display

March 28, 2023

Exploring the bow shock and beyond

Rishabh Datta’s main focus is, “Can we create this high energy plasma that is moving supersonically in a laboratory, and can we study it? And can we learn things that are hard to diagnose in an astrophysical plasma?”

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Faces of Nuno Loureiro and Fredrick Seguin

October 21, 2022

Seven from MIT (2 from PSFC) named APS Fellows for 2022

The American Physical Society elected Prof. Nuno Loureiro and Research Scientist Fredrick Seguin to be 2022 APS Fellows, 2 of 7 from MIT.

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Photo of Noah Mandell with sculpture on MIT campus

June 28, 2022

Noah Mandell wins Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science award

Noah Mandell, a postdoctoral fellow at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), is one of two recipients of a 2022 Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science award.

PSFC News

May 9, 2022

How the Universe got its magnetic field

By studying the dynamics of plasma turbulence, MIT researchers are solving one of the mysteries of the origins of cosmological magnetic fields.

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January 3, 2022

Turbulence yields to topology

NSE PhD candidate Lucio Milanese expands a theory of turbulence to include both ionized and non-ionized fluids.

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December 21, 2020

Storm in a cosmic teacup: Discovering a new paradigm for understanding plasma turbulence

On the path to writing his PhD dissertation Lucio Milanese made a discovery - one that refocused his research and will now likely dominate his thesis.

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July 8, 2020

How to grow a cosmic magnetic field

“Tiny magnetic fields, through interaction with plasmas, can potentially increase their coherence length by many orders of magnitude to become the enormous astronomical-scale magnetic fields observed in the universe,” says graduate student Muni Zhou.

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February 11, 2019

Bose grants for 2018 fund research at the frontier of discovery

PSFC's Nuno Loureiro is one five receiving the prestigious award. The supported innovative projects challenge established norms and have the potential to be world-changing.

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December 12, 2018

Focus on plasma turbulence pays dividends in fusion energy, astrophysics for theorist Loureiro

Difficult problems with big payoffs are the life blood of MIT, so it’s appropriate that plasma turbulence has been an important focus for theoretical physicist Nuno Loureiro.

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October 16, 2018

Nuno Loureiro: Probing the world of plasmas

As a boy in Portugal, Nuno Loureiro wanted to be a scientist, even when “everyone else wanted to be a policeman or a fireman.” He’s now focused on the physics of plasma, with applications in both astrophysics and clean energy.

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May 4, 2018

Spinning data into sound

Prof. Joe Paradiso is using a modular synthesizer to translate data into artful sound – specifically data from one of the final fusion experiments on the Plasma Science and Fusion Center’s (PSFC) Alcator C-Mod tokamak.

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NEWS: Nuno Loureiro

Exploring the bow shock and beyond

Seven from MIT (2 from PSFC) named APS Fellows for 2022

Noah Mandell wins Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science award

How the Universe got its magnetic field

Turbulence yields to topology

Storm in a cosmic teacup: Discovering a new paradigm for understanding plasma turbulence

How to grow a cosmic magnetic field

Bose grants for 2018 fund research at the frontier of discovery

Focus on plasma turbulence pays dividends in fusion energy, astrophysics for theorist Loureiro

Nuno Loureiro: Probing the world of plasmas

Spinning data into sound

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