Dr. Choongseok Chang is a celebrated physicist of more than 40 years who is currently the managing principal research physicist at Princeton University's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
PRINCETON, NJ, December 05, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Choongseok Chang, PhD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Chang celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Chang is a celebrated physicist of more than 40 years who is currently the managing principal research physicist at Princeton University's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. An expert in plasma non-linear turbulence and extreme scale computing, he was hired for his position in 2011. He was elected to the lifetime fellow of the American Physical Society in 2006. He is also named as a Science Fellow of ITER, and serves the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE) as a Sitting With the Committee member. The Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering is an interdisciplinary institute designed to bring together faculty and researchers from diverse backgrounds, leveraging their broad expertise to address new and relevant computational problems and thereby contribute to the body of scientific knowledge.
As the head of the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing's Center for High-fidelity Plasma Edge Simulation, which is headquartered at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, some of the activities that Dr. Chang oversees include fusion physics, applied mathematics and computer science. He also holds the position of a joint professorship with Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Prior to joining the faculty at Princeton University, Dr. Chang was aligned with New York University for 23 years, between 1988 and 2011, as a tenured research professor in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He also taught at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology as a professor of physics for 25 years, between 1986 and 2011. In the field, Dr. Chang served two years as a staff scientist for Applied Microwave Plasma Concepts from 1984 to 1986 and five years as a senior scientist for General Atomics from 1979 to 1984.
Responsible for finding a solution relating to spontaneous containment of energy in a fusion reactor in more recent years, Dr. Chang has also been involved throughout his career with broad and in-depth research in fusion plasmas, industrial plasmas, strongly interacting biophysics systems, nonlinear chaos phenomena and radio frequency heating. Some of his more current studies have also focused on the extreme scale super-computing research activities on multiscale turbulent self-organization and transport physics in magnetically confinement plasma, as well as the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
As a seasoned researcher, Dr. Chang has authored over 200 publications in internationally recognized peer reviewed journals, produced over 15 doctorate degrees and trained two dozen postdoctoral scientists. Additionally, he has given uncountable number of plenary talks, invited talks, keynote speeches and tutorial lectures at major scientific conferences.
Heading numerous national and international advisory and executive committees throughout his career, Dr. Chang most notably oversaw the Korean tokamak physics design team activities for the Korean Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research facility from 1995 to 1998, which led to the world's most advanced tokamak research facility in operation today. He also chaired the Korean Physical Society's plasma physics division from 1998 to 2000.
Dr. Chang received a Bachelor of Science in physics at Seoul National University in 1974 and later achieved a Doctor of Philosophy in physics at the University of Texas at Austin in 1979. His past activities include the executive committee of the US Transport Task Force and the council of the U.S. Burning Plasma Organization, chairing US DOE's Exascale Requirement Review, and organizer or executive member of many international conferences. The recipient of several U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory's big computing awards for his work, Dr. Chang is also a celebrated Marquis listee who has been cited in the 66th edition of Who's Who in America.
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