Ozgur Gurcan

1. Personal Information : ====================== **Date of Birth:** 12-12-1976 **Nationality:** Turkish **ResearcherID: A1362-2013** (<http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-1362-2013>) **Github account:**<https://github.com/gurcani> 2. Education : =========== 2018: HDR (i.e. Habilitation), Sorbonne Université 2005 : PhD University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Department of Physics. Thesis :*Nonlinear analysis of Electron Temperature Gradient Driven Turbulence.* 1999 : B.S. Middle East Technical University, Department of Physics (Advanced Physics Program). 3. Professional Experience : ========================= Dec 2009-Present : CNRS, CR, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), Ecole Polytechnique May 2008-Dec 2009 : CNRS, Postdoc, LPP, Ecole Polytechnique (at CEA-Cadarache) May 2005-May 2008 : Postdoc, UCSD, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences. Aug 2000-May 2005 : Graduate Student Researcher, UCSD, Phsyics Dept. + %25 Teaching Assistant for the first year. Jun 2004-Aug 2004 : Summer Lecturer, UCSD, Physics Dept. (Intro. Electricity and Magnetism) 1993-1994 : Computer Game Designer, Siliconworx (Istanbul Efsaneleri- Lale Savascilari, primary Amiga coder). 4. Contracts – Prizes : ==================== - Agence National de la Recherce, (2010-2014) Young Scientist Funding, 205,000 € (MTSEPT ANR-JCJC-0403-01). - 3rd author of the paper that won the 2012 Nuclear Fusion Prize (1st : Patrick H. Diamond). - Various roles in many euratom (eurofusion) projects. 5. **Research Interests:** ======================= Plasma and neutral fluid turbulence. Reduced models, fundamental turbulence studies. Zonal flows, coherent structures, pattern formation and selection, renormalization techniques in plasma physics, shell models and their application to plasma turbulence, momentum transport, intrinsic rotation and L-H transition in tokamaks, electron thermal transport, turbulence spreading and nonlocal turbulent transport in hot, magnetized plasmas. 6. Teaching Experience : ===================== - Teaching assistantship, -problem sessions and grading- first year at UCSD. - Lecturer for a summer class on introductory Electricity and Magnetism (2004). - Taught a masters level class (in the program, M2R Physique Fondamentale, Spécialité Optique Matière et Plasmas) called “Turbulence et Applications” in 2011-2012 together with Eric Buchlin. - Lecture series (Theory of Turbulence, Measurement and Analysis of Density Fluctuations, Modelling of Plasma Turbulence) in the Goal Oriented Training in Theory (GOTiT) program (March 2010). - Various invited pedagogical lectures : - “*Wave turbulence and flow self organization in magnetized fusion plasmas”* Winter school on wave turbulence, Les Houches (2012). - “*Thermodynamics of flow generation”*, 2nd East-Asian School and Workshop on Laboratory, Space, Astrophysical Plasmas, Jeju Island (2012) - Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (Wave-Flow Interaction in Geophysics, Climate, Astrophysics, and Plasmas program) Talks and Tutorials: - Turbulence, Waves and Flows in Fusion Plasmas: [http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/waveflows\_c14/gurcan/](http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/waveflows_c14/gurcan/) - Hasegawa-Mima/Hasegawa-Wakatani tutorial: <http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/waveflows14/gurcan/> - Charney-Hasegawa-Mima tutorial with Gavin Esler: [http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/waveflows14/esler\_gurcan/](http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/waveflows14/esler_gurcan/) 7. **Supervision :** ================= **Students:** ***Vincent Berionni :*** 2011-2014, %100, “Etude de l'impact des flux zonaux sur la turbulence plasma, la transition LH et la production d'entropie”. ***Shaokang Xu :*** 2015-2018: %50 avec Pierre Morel, “Reduced models in plasma turbulence” ***Ö****zg****ü****r G****ü****ltekin :*** 2013-2017 %100 (supervised him remotely with a nominal supervisor in Turkey), “Renormalization of ion temperature gradient driven turbulence” **Postdocs:** ***Christopher McDevitt:*** 2010 -2011 “Studies of turbulence driven plasma rotation” ***Pierre Morel:*** 2011-2012 “Gyrokinetic simulations, simulation-experiment comparisons” ***Romain Meyrand[1](#sdfootnote1sym):*** 2013-2015 “Weak turbulence in plasmas” ***Sumire Kobayashi[2](#sdfootnote2sym):*** 2013-2016 “Wave number spectrum and predator-prey oscillations in gyrokinetic turbulence” ***Rameswar Singh:*** 2013-2015 +3 months in 2016, “Physics of geodesic acoustic modes, and ExB suppression” ***Katy Ghantous:*** 2013-2015, “Wave number spectrum, shell models, hierarchical tree models” ***Sara Moradi:***2013 (about 6 months) “Synchronization in coupled oscillators and predator-prey dynamics”. ***Yang Li****:***2019(2 year contract from Chinese Scholarship Council) “Reduced models and Network approaches in Fusion Plasmas”. 8. **Organizational Experience:** ============================== - Scientific committee of - 6th, 7th , 8th,9thand 10thFestivals de Theorie, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 in Aix en Provence. - Scientific and the organizing committes of - Winter school “Dynamics and turbulent transport in plasmas and conducting fluids”, 2011 at Ecole Physiques des Houches. - <a name="__DdeLink__1073_440296353"></a> Selection committee of the Rencontres Nonlineaires between 2013-2016. - I organized: - the Plasma Physics Seminars in Physics Department at UCSD (2005-2008) - The journal club on plasma turbulence in the LPP (2012-2015 or so) - Working group on turbulence in CEA-Cadarache, (two PRLs in 2009). - I lead the “axe tranverse ‘turbulence’” at LPP together with Sébastien Galtier (an important aspect of our Laboratory LPP). [1](#sdfootnote1anc)Romain worked most of the time with his ex-supervisor Sebastien Galtier even though he was paid from my ANR project, which I welcomed because he was producing important physics results with Sebastian. [2](#sdfootnote2anc)Sumire was actually a postdoc of Fouad Sahraoui in Space Plasmas team, but because she had worked on fusion before, we wrote a number of papers together.

1. Personal Information : ====================== **Date of Birth:** 12-12-1976 **Nationality:** Turkish **ResearcherID: A1362-2013** (<http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-1362-2013>) **Github account:**<https://github.com/gurcani> 2. Education : =========== 2018: HDR (i.e. Habilitation), Sorbonne Université 2005 : PhD University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Department of Physics. Thesis :*Nonlinear analysis of Electron Temperature Gradient Driven Turbulence.* 1999 : B.S. Middle East Technical University, Department of Physics (Advanced Physics Program). 3. Professional Experience : ========================= Dec 2009-Present : CNRS, CR, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), Ecole Polytechnique May 2008-Dec 2009 : CNRS, Postdoc, LPP, Ecole Polytechnique (at CEA-Cadarache) May 2005-May 2008 : Postdoc, UCSD, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences. Aug 2000-May 2005 : Graduate Student Researcher, UCSD, Phsyics Dept. + %25 Teaching Assistant for the first year. Jun 2004-Aug 2004 : Summer Lecturer, UCSD, Physics Dept. (Intro. Electricity and Magnetism) 1993-1994 : Computer Game Designer, Siliconworx (Istanbul Efsaneleri- Lale Savascilari, primary Amiga coder). 4. Contracts – Prizes : ==================== - Agence National de la Recherce, (2010-2014) Young Scientist Funding, 205,000 € (MTSEPT ANR-JCJC-0403-01). - 3rd author of the paper that won the 2012 Nuclear Fusion Prize (1st : Patrick H. Diamond). - Various roles in many euratom (eurofusion) projects. 5. **Research Interests:** ======================= Plasma and neutral fluid turbulence. Reduced models, fundamental turbulence studies. Zonal flows, coherent structures, pattern formation and selection, renormalization techniques in plasma physics, shell models and their application to plasma turbulence, momentum transport, intrinsic rotation and L-H transition in tokamaks, electron thermal transport, turbulence spreading and nonlocal turbulent transport in hot, magnetized plasmas. 6. Teaching Experience : ===================== - Teaching assistantship, -problem sessions and grading- first year at UCSD. - Lecturer for a summer class on introductory Electricity and Magnetism (2004). - Taught a masters level class (in the program, M2R Physique Fondamentale, Spécialité Optique Matière et Plasmas) called “Turbulence et Applications” in 2011-2012 together with Eric Buchlin. - Lecture series (Theory of Turbulence, Measurement and Analysis of Density Fluctuations, Modelling of Plasma Turbulence) in the Goal Oriented Training in Theory (GOTiT) program (March 2010). - Various invited pedagogical lectures : - “*Wave turbulence and flow self organization in magnetized fusion plasmas”* Winter school on wave turbulence, Les Houches (2012). - “*Thermodynamics of flow generation”*, 2nd East-Asian School and Workshop on Laboratory, Space, Astrophysical Plasmas, Jeju Island (2012) - Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (Wave-Flow Interaction in Geophysics, Climate, Astrophysics, and Plasmas program) Talks and Tutorials: - Turbulence, Waves and Flows in Fusion Plasmas: [http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/waveflows\_c14/gurcan/](http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/waveflows_c14/gurcan/) - Hasegawa-Mima/Hasegawa-Wakatani tutorial: <http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/waveflows14/gurcan/> - Charney-Hasegawa-Mima tutorial with Gavin Esler: [http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/waveflows14/esler\_gurcan/](http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/waveflows14/esler_gurcan/) 7. **Supervision :** ================= **Students:** ***Vincent Berionni :*** 2011-2014, %100, “Etude de l'impact des flux zonaux sur la turbulence plasma, la transition LH et la production d'entropie”. ***Shaokang Xu :*** 2015-2018: %50 avec Pierre Morel, “Reduced models in plasma turbulence” ***Ö****zg****ü****r G****ü****ltekin :*** 2013-2017 %100 (supervised him remotely with a nominal supervisor in Turkey), “Renormalization of ion temperature gradient driven turbulence” **Postdocs:** ***Christopher McDevitt:*** 2010 -2011 “Studies of turbulence driven plasma rotation” ***Pierre Morel:*** 2011-2012 “Gyrokinetic simulations, simulation-experiment comparisons” ***Romain Meyrand[1](#sdfootnote1sym):*** 2013-2015 “Weak turbulence in plasmas” ***Sumire Kobayashi[2](#sdfootnote2sym):*** 2013-2016 “Wave number spectrum and predator-prey oscillations in gyrokinetic turbulence” ***Rameswar Singh:*** 2013-2015 +3 months in 2016, “Physics of geodesic acoustic modes, and ExB suppression” ***Katy Ghantous:*** 2013-2015, “Wave number spectrum, shell models, hierarchical tree models” ***Sara Moradi:***2013 (about 6 months) “Synchronization in coupled oscillators and predator-prey dynamics”. ***Yang Li****:***2019(2 year contract from Chinese Scholarship Council) “Reduced models and Network approaches in Fusion Plasmas”. 8. **Organizational Experience:** ============================== - Scientific committee of - 6th, 7th , 8th,9thand 10thFestivals de Theorie, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 in Aix en Provence. - Scientific and the organizing committes of - Winter school “Dynamics and turbulent transport in plasmas and conducting fluids”, 2011 at Ecole Physiques des Houches. - <a name="__DdeLink__1073_440296353"></a> Selection committee of the Rencontres Nonlineaires between 2013-2016. - I organized: - the Plasma Physics Seminars in Physics Department at UCSD (2005-2008) - The journal club on plasma turbulence in the LPP (2012-2015 or so) - Working group on turbulence in CEA-Cadarache, (two PRLs in 2009). - I lead the “axe tranverse ‘turbulence’” at LPP together with Sébastien Galtier (an important aspect of our Laboratory LPP). [1](#sdfootnote1anc)Romain worked most of the time with his ex-supervisor Sebastien Galtier even though he was paid from my ANR project, which I welcomed because he was producing important physics results with Sebastian. [2](#sdfootnote2anc)Sumire was actually a postdoc of Fouad Sahraoui in Space Plasmas team, but because she had worked on fusion before, we wrote a number of papers together.