Ian Chapman (physicist)

Sir Ian Trevelyan Chapman FREng FRS is a British physicist who is the chief executive of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).[1][2][3][4]

Chapman, CEO of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
Professor Ian Chapman, CEO of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

Education

Chapman went to school at Elizabeth College, Guernsey. He graduated from Durham University (Hild Bede College) with an M.Sci. in Mathematics and Physics in 2004.[5]

Chapman then joined UKAEA's Culham laboratory as a plasma physics PhD student with Imperial College London. His research focused on understanding and controlling instabilities in the plasma fuel within tokamak fusion devices. He received his PhD in 2008.

Career

Chapman continued his plasma physics research at Culham and progressed through a number of positions in the UK fusion programme, including Head of Tokamak Science in 2014 and Fusion Programme Manager in 2015. In October 2016 he became UKAEA's Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Sir Steven Cowley.[6]

He has published over 110 journal papers and given 30 invited lead-author presentations at international conferences. In 2015, he became a visiting professor at Durham University.[7]

International roles

Chapman has held a number of international roles in fusion research. He was a Task Force Leader for the Joint European Torus fusion device from 2012 to 2014. He was appointed a member of the programme advisory committee for US experiment NSTX-U in 2013. He has chaired international working groups for the international fusion project ITER and led work packages within the EU fusion programme.

Awards and honours

Chapman's research has been recognised with a number of notable awards, including:

Chapman was knighted in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to global fusion energy.[14]

References
  1. "Professor Ian Chapman - GOV.UK". Gov.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  2. "About us: Key staff". Ccfe.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  3. "Interview - Professor Ian Chapman, chief executive, UK Atomic Energy Authority". 9 November 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  4. "Prof. Ian Chapman to become new CEO of the UK fusion programme". Fusenet.eu. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  5. "King's New Year Honours 2023". Durham University. 9 January 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  6. "News: Rising star to lead UK's fusion energy programme". www.ccfe.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  7. "Researcher pages". www.ccfe.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  8. "STEM for BRITAIN 2017". www.setforbritain.org.uk. Archived from the original on 18 September 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  9. "The Young Scientist Prize | IUPAP: The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics". iupap.org. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  10. "2013 Paterson medal and prize". www.iop.org. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  11. "Press Release: 2014 EPS Early Career Prizes". European Physical Society. 24 September 2014.
  12. "Professor Ian Chapman FREng". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  13. "Ian Chapman". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  14. "No. 63918". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2022. p. N2.


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