Matt Beidler
R&D Staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Beidler is an R&D staff scientist with eight years of experience advancing theoretical and computational plasma physics toward practical fusion energy. Based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he develops hybrid MHD–kinetic simulation tools—work supported by an Office of Science Early Career Award—to model disruptions and runaway electrons for ITER and future reactors. His background includes postdoctoral research on nonlinear, massively parallel extended-MHD simulations of 3D fields to suppress ELMs, linking high-performance computing with experimental fusion goals. With a Ph.D. in Computational and Theoretical Plasma Physics and a knack for uniting particle-based and fluid paradigms, he focuses on actionable optimizations for mitigation systems rather than purely academic models.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational and Theoretical Plasma Physics, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational and Theoretical Plasma Physics, 4.0 at West Virginia UniversityJohns Hopkins University
Github Skills (2)
fusion10
orbit10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ORNL-Fusion/KORC
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Kinetic Orbit Runaway Code (KORC)
Contributions:2 releases, 19 reviews, 350 commits in 3 years 6 months
kineticorbitfusionelectronsrunaways
mbeidler3/KORC_GPU
Nov 2022 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 54 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
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