Stefaan Poedts: Personal homepage
Prof.Dr. Stefaan Poedts
Centrum voor Plasma-Astrofysica
Departement WiskundeCelestijnenlaan 200 B
3001 Leuven
Belgium
Phone: +32/(0)16.32.70.23
Fax: +32/(0)16.32.79.98
E-mail:
Stefaan Poedts graduated in Applied Mathematics in 1984 at the K.U.Leuven.
As 'research assistant' of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research
he obtained a PhD in Sciences (Applied Mathematics) in 1988 at the
same university. After one year as Postdoctoral researcher he left the K.U.Leuven to become a Postdoctoral researcher at
the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik in
Garching bei München.
In October 1991 he moved to the Netherlands to work in the
FOM-Instituut voor Plasmafysica 'Rijnhuizen',
first as 'scientific collaborator' and from October 1995 on as 'Senior researcher'.
In October 1996 he returned to the K.U.Leuven as Research Associate of the FWO-Vlaanderen at the Centre for Plasma Astrophysics (CPA) in the Department of mathematics. Since October 1, 2000 he is Academic Staff at the K.U.Leuven, first as 'Hoogleraar' (= 'Reader' in UK and 'associate professor' in USA) and presently as 'Gewoon hoogleraar' (= 'Professor' in UK and 'Full Professor' in USA).
Research interests:
- Solar Astrophysics: Theory and Observations
- Coronal loop dynamics
- Coronal heating mechanisms
- Space Weather
- Solar wind modeling
- Coronal Mass Ejections: initiation and IP evolution
- Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion Research (CTFR)
- Tokamak dynamics and stability
- MHD spectroscopy
