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Mark Tillack, Research Scientist in the Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering Department and Associate Director of the Center for Energy
Research, has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for
contributions to fusion energy technology.
Dr. Tillack is an internationally recognized expert on nuclear
technologies in the fields of magnetic and inertial fusion energy, with
more than 150 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. During his 3
decades of research and program leadership he has invented new design
concepts for the fusion power core and led research groups to resolve
those issues that are critical for the commercial success of fusion
energy. He also created a leading university laboratory for studies of
soft x-ray light sources for next-generation extreme ultraviolet
semiconductor lithography (EUVL) - an offshoot of his research on laser
fusion energy. His work has been supported by leading industries in the
US and Japan, and has had a lasting impact on the development and
deployment of next-generation lithography light sources.
The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors
upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of
the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year
cannot exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting membership.
IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the
technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career
achievement.
| Dr. Tillack received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT in 1983,
and has been a research scientist at the University of California
throughout his entire career. He served as a member of the
Administrative Committee of the Nuclear and Plasma Science Society
(NPSS), chair of the IEEE NPSS Fusion
Technology Committee and chair of the 2009 IEEE NPSS Symposium on Fusion
Engineering held in San Diego. He also serves as a member of the
American Nuclear Society Executive Committee for the Fusion Energy
Division (FED), and won the ANS FED 2008 Technical Accomplishment Award.
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