HTX Personnel


• Yevgeny Raitses, Principal Investigator (PI)
• Ivan Romadanov, Associate Research Physicist
• Nirbhav Chopra, PhD candidate
• Emma Devin, Graduate student
• Benjamin Benjadol, Undergraduate Student
• Enrique Merino, Research Specialist
• Alex Merzhevsky, Engineer

Co-PI's


• Nathaniel J. Fisch (Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
• Igor Kaganovich (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
• Andrei Smolyakov (University of Saskatchewan)
• Mark Cappelli (Stanford University)
• Bruce Koel (Princeton University)
• Nasr Ghoniem (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Michael Keidar (George Washington University)
• Edgar Choueiri (Princeton University)

HTX Graduate Students:


• Emma Devin, 2023, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Angelica Ottaviano, 2023, MAE Department, UCLA
• Brian Jensen, 2022, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Nirbhav Chopra, 2019, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Valentin Skoutnev, 2016, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Andy Alt, 2015, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Brian Kraus, 2014, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Marlene Patino, 2014-2016, MAE Department, UCLA
• Ivan Romadanov, 2015-2017, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
• Scott Keller, 2013, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Yuan Shi, 2012, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Leland Ellison, 2010, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Jeffrey Parker, 2009, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Erik Granstedt, 2006, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Artem Smirnov, 2001-2006, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Tim Graves, 2001, Chemical Engineering Department, Texas A&M University
• David Staack, 2001-2004, MAE Department , Princeton University
• Andy Burlingame, 2000, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Sy Stange, 2000, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Leonid Dorf, 1999-2004, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
• Andrei Litvak, 1999-2003 Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University

HTX Undergraduate Students:


• Benjamin Benjadol,, 2022-2023, MAE, Princeton University
• Kai-Mei Fu, 2000, Physics Department, Princeton University
• Kevin Ertmer, 2000, MAE, Princeton University
• Eugenio Ortiz, 2000, Physics Department, Princeton University

HTX Alumni


• Jacob Simmonds, 2022 NASA JPL, Technologist
• Ivan Romadanov, 2016, Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• Martin Griswold, 2013, Scientist, Tri Alpha Energy
• Artem Smirnov, 2006, TAE Technologies, Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
• David Staack, 2004, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M
• Leonid Dorf, 2004, Sr. Director, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Applied Materials
• Andrei Litvak, 2003, Staff Scientist, ASML

Collaborators and Links

Dmytro Sydorenko (University of Alberta, Canada)
• Amnon Fruchtman (Holon Institute of Technology)
• Richard Wirz (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Christopher Tully and Fang Zhao (Princeton University)
• Angela Capece (The College of New Jersey)
• Kentaro Hara (Texas A&M University)
• Ralf Shnieder (Universitat Greifswald, Institut fur Physik)
• Konstantin Matyash (Universitat Greifswald, Computational Science Laboratory)
• Stephan Mazuffre and Sedina Tsikata (Institut de Combustion Aerothermique Reactivite et Environnement )
• Jean-Pierre Boeuf and Laurent Garrigues (Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion D'Energie)
• Rostislav Spektor (Aerospace Corporation)
Kurt Polzin (NASA Marshall SFC)
• Panagiotis Svarnas (University of Parnas, Greece)
• Eduardo Ahedo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
• Francesco Taccogna (CNR-IMIP, Italy)
• JP Sheehan (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
• Noah Hershkowitz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Valery A. Godyak (RF Plasma Consulting)
• Vladimir Demidov (Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB)
• Vincent M. Donnelly (University of Houston)