We will be looking for undergraduate student researchers and assistants this Fall 2025. Please watch this space for more information in October 2025. There will be engineering, physics and ML/AI opportunities in several areas related to the research we do on Pegasus-III. In early October 2025, this page will host a link for you to indicate your interest and update a resume. Until then, please check out our website for more information on the fusion energy and plasma science research we do.
Topics of research that current Pegasus-III graduate and undergraduate students are pursuing:
- Advancing high-current electron sources for Local Helicity Injection (LHI)
- Developing, improving, and validating predictive models for LHI startup
- Neutral beam-based diagnostic development
- Magnetic structure and activity studies, magnetic diagnostic development
- Toroidal field magnet design
- Impurity and radiated power studies in LHI
- Edge current modeling for LHI plasmas
- Compatibility of LHI plasmas with subsequent current drive
- Energy confinement characterization of LHI plasmas using Thomson scattering
- Characterizing Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI) plasmas
- Modeling CHI plasma scenarios with NIMROD
- Measuring Electron Bernstein Wave (EBW) emission
- Modeling of EBW and Electron Cyclotron (EC) heating