David Schaffner
Associate Professor
Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Schaffner is an experimental plasma physicist and Associate Professor at Bryn Mawr College who builds and leads a hands-on plasma research lab studying MHD turbulence across laboratory and heliospheric contexts. With a PhD and MS from UCLA and a postdoc at Swarthmore, he combines experimental design (probe and diagnostics construction, vacuum and electronics systems) with quantitative time-series and statistical analyses in Python/IDL to probe energy transfer and dissipation in turbulent plasmas. He maintains lasting collaborations on the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment and conducts fusion-relevant edge turbulence studies on UCLA’s LAPD, while also exploring novel fusion technologies under an ARPA-E grant. Known for moving between detailed instrument development and high-level comparison to satellite observations and simulations, he brings rare depth in both hands-on experimental technique and statistical turbulence analysis.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Physics, Ph.D, Physics at University of California, Los Angeles
English
Github Skills (20)
plasma-physics10
python10
astronomy10
astrophysics10
fusion10
solar10
physics10
science10
code-analysis8
calculation7
entropy6
ada6
keccak6
apl6
complexity5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Bryn-Mawr-Plasma-Laboratory/bmplib
Oct 2020 - Jun 2023
Home for all BMPL related code
Contributions:5 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
dschaffner/BMPL
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
Home for Analysis Code for the Bryn Mawr Plasma Laboratory
Contributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 years 6 months
laboratoryplasmapythoncode-analysis
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