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Young Researcher Award Winners

2022 Young Researcher Award		[Fundamental] Yohei Kawazura Tohoku University Citation : For his theoretical and computational contributions via gyro-kinetics and reduced magnetohydrodynamics to the understanding of turbulence in accretion flows
2022 Young Researcher Award		[Basic] Swarniv Chandra Government General Degree College at Kushmandi Citation : For his pioneering and excellent work in quantum plasmas and in the development of simulation techniques that are helpful in studying interactions of plasma waves and evolution of field quantities in ultrashort duration plasmas.
2022 Young Researcher Award		[Applied] Bhagirath Ghimire University of Alabama in Huntsville Citation : For his outstanding contributions towards understanding the mechanisms of how cold plasma devices produce therapeutically important molecules for disease treatment and in utilizing this knowledge to improve their efficiency and safety in medicine.
2022 Young Researcher Award		[ Laser ] Liangliang Ji SIOM Citation : For his outstanding contributions to the laser-plasma physics at extremely high laser intensity for laser-driven particle acceleration and strong-field quantum-electrodynamics (QED) physics.
2022 Young Researcher Award		[ Space/Geomagnetism] Xuzhi Zhou Peking University Citation : For his remarkable contributions towards our understanding of the hydromagnetic wave-particle resonance in the magnetosphere, the impulsive particle acceleration in reconnection outflow flux fronts, and the cross-scale eletro-magnetic structures in space plasmas.
2022 Young Researcher Award		[ Solar ] Yang Guo Nanjing University Citation : For his significant contributions in determining the magnetic morphology and magnetic helicity of the pre-eruption structure in the solar corona
2022 Young Researcher Award		[ Astro ] Xue-Ning Bai Tsinghua University Citation : For his series of works that drive a paradigm shift in understanding the gas dynamics of weakly ionized protoplanetary disks, and for his development of the novel MHD-PIC method that enabled accurate simulations of the cosmic-ray streaming instability and first-principle characterization of the transport coefficients of low-energy cosmic-rays.
2022 Young Researcher Award		[ Magnetic Fusion ] Kunihiro Ogawa NIFS Citation : For his significant contribution to development of diagnostic systems for fusion products such as neutrons and tritons, demonstration of MeV ion confinement and visualization of beam ion profiles and transport due to MHD instabilities toward understanding fusion burning plasmas.
2021 Young Researcher Award		Hiroshi Tanabe Citation : For his unique experimental contribution to advanced imaging diagnostics, laboratory experiments of magnetic reconnection and their applications for fusion plasma heating.
2021 Young Researcher Award		Mingu Yoo Citation : For his pioneering work in discovering the fundamental mechanisms of ohmic breakdown phenomena in tokamaks by considering the self-induced electric field, which has profound practical implications for the design strategy of plasma start-up scenarios for future tokamaks such as ITER and beyond.
2021 Young Researcher Award		Sanghoo Park Citation : For his excellent work on weakly-ionized plasma science, particularly on the basic physics of the electrohydrodynamic (EHD) flow naturally produced in weakly-ionized collisional plasmas, and its stabilizing effect on plasma-liquid interface.
2021 Young Researcher Award		Tong-Pu Yu Citation : For his outstanding achievements in exploring physics in extremely intense laser-plasma interactions for novel applications e.g., brilliant X/gamma radiation, QED plasma generation, and particle acceleration.
2021 Young Researcher Award		Meng Zhou Citation : For his significant contribution to the understanding of the role of plasma waves in magnetic reconnection process, electron-scale physics in coalescing magnetic flux ropes, kinetic properties of dipolarization fronts, and magnetospheric substorms RMPP Article
2021 Young Researcher Award		Xin Cheng Citation : For his significant contribution to the understanding of the origin and early evolution of solar coronal mass ejections, turbulent magnetic reconnection in flaring current sheets, and space weather physics
2021 Young Researcher Award		Siye Ding Citation : For his fundamental contributions to the understanding and experimental development of advanced tokamak scenarios towards a steady state fusion reactor, and for elucidating, through integrated simulations, the synergism between internal transport barrier and divertor detachment in the high poloidal beta plasmas
2020 Young Researcher Award		Jiansen He Citation : For his significant contributions in observational and theoretical studies of plasma turbulence in the solar wind by investigating their wavelike nature, dissipation/heating mechanisms and cascade processes at kinetic scales.
2020 Young Researcher Award		Yutaka Ohira Citation : For his pioneering contributions to our understanding of collisionless shocks in partially ionized plasmas and to providing insights into the escape mechanism of cosmic rays from astrophysical accelerators.
2020 Young Researcher Award		Su-Ming Weng Citation : For his outstanding achievements in the field of plasma optics related to high-power laser sciences and inertial confinement fusion, and for his contributions towards plasma transport theory under extreme high field conditions.
2020 Young Researcher Award		Atsushi M. Ito Citation : For his outstanding contributions towards development of novel methods for simulation studies of plasma-material interactions and in furthering our understanding of the formation mechanism of tungsten fuzzy nanostructures induced by helium plasma irradiation.
2020 Young Researcher Award		Liang wang Citation : For his outstanding contributions to power and particle exhaust in long pulse H-mode plasmas with ITER-like tungsten divertor, including development of advanced control schemes and discoveries on the mechanism of divertor heat flux spreading in dominant RF electron heating regimes.
2020 Young Researcher Award		Minjun Choi Citation : For his exceptional contributions towards the understanding of electron transport in tokamaks arising from nonlinear interactions between magnetic islands and turbulence using imaging diagnostics and big data analysis methods. RMPP Article
2019 Young Researcher Award		Min Chen Citation : For his original contributions on ionization injection and stage coupling for laser plasma wakefield acceleration towards high quality and high energy electron beams and tunable X-ray sources.
2019 Young Researcher Award		Wei Chen Citation : For his outstanding contributions to the experimental discoveries of energetic-electron-driven beta Alfvén eigenmode as well as nonlinear interactions between toroidal Alfvén eigenmode and tearing mode in the HL-2A tokamak.
2019 Young Researcher Award		Hui Tian Citation : For his significant contributions to the generation and characteristics of small-scale magnetic activities,as well as their role in mass and energy transport that occurs in the magnetohydrodynamic environment of the solar atmosphere.
2019 Young Researcher Award		Rongsheng Wang Citation : For his outstanding contributions to the elucidation of the roles of flux ropes in energy dissipation and electron acceleration during collisionless magnetic reconnection.
2019 Young Researcher Award		Zhiyong Qiu Citation : For his fundamental contributions to the understanding of stability and radial structures of energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic modes,and nonlinear parametric interactions of zonal structures, drift wave turbulence and Alfvén eigenmodes.
2019 Young Researcher Award		Keigo Takeda Citation : For his outstanding contributions to understanding the physicochemical reactions of reactive and energetic species both in the gas phase and on the surface of plasma processes with nano-fabrication as well as bio-medical applications. RMPP Article
2018 Young Researcher Award		Takanobu Amano (Space) Citation : For his significant contributions to the simulation and theory of acceleration of non-thermal electrons in collisionless shocks in space and astrophysical plasmas.
2018 Young Researcher Award		Hideyuki Hotta (Solar/Astro) Citation : For fundamental contributions in demonstrating, via advanced high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic simulations, the important roles played by small-scale dynamo in the generation of the global-scale solar magnetic field.
2018 Young Researcher Award		Yan Feng (Basic) Citation :For seminal contributions in understanding the dynamics, transport and other properties of dusty plasmas via various experimental methods conducted in comprehensive and systematic approaches. RMPP Article
2018 Young Researcher Award		Wulyu Zhong (Magnetic Fusion) Citation : For significant scientific contributions to turbulent transport physics via a series of innovative particle and impurity transport studies in the experiments on HL-2A, Tore Supra and J-TEXT tokamaks. RMPP Article
2018 Young Researcher Award		Zheng-Xiong WANG (Fundamental) Citation : For fundamental contributions in delineating the nonlinear physics of resistive and neoclassical tearing mode instabilities and the generic mechanism of vortex flow induced stabilization of multi-scale microturbulence in tokamak plasmas. RMPP Article
2018 Young Researcher Award		Chao Chang (Applied) Citation : For seminal contributions to wave-plasma interaction in the areas of novel electromagnetic undulators for free electron lasers and microwave-driven window breakdown mechanisms.
2018 Young Researcher Award		Wei-Min Wang (Laser) Citation : For his pioneering contributions to the novel generation and characteristics studies of tera-hertz (THz) radiation using strong interactions of one or two-color laser pulse and a target.
2017 Young Researcher Award		Lu Wang Citation : For her theoretical formulation of an origin of intrinsic flow drive based on the gyro kinetic equation and for her finding of a new " turbulent acceleration " mechanism for the flow drive. “Gyrokinetic theory of turbulent acceleration of parallel rotation in tokamak plasmas” , Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 265006 (2013)
2017 Young Researcher Award		Yong-Xin Liu Citation : For his experimental study and modeling of spatiotemporal patterns of electron heating in a capacitively coupled radio-frequency plasma. “Experimental Observation and Computational Analysis of Striations in Electronegative Capacitively Coupled Radio-Frequency Plasmas”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 255002 (2016)“
2017 Young Researcher Award		Bin Qiao Citation : For his significant contributions to the novel physics of laser-driven compact ion accelerators. “Achieving Stable Radiation Pressure Acceleration of Heavy Ions via Successive Electron Replenishment from Ionization of a High-Z Material Coating”, Phys. Rev. Lett.118, 204802 (2017)
2017 Young Researcher Award		Linghua Wang Citation : For her significant contributions to the understanding of particle acceleration and transport at the Sun and in the heliosphere, as well as to the development of energetic particle detectors. “A statistical study of solar electron events over one solar cycle”, The Astrophysical Journal, 759(1), 69, 2012 RMPP Article
2017 Young Researcher Award		Guosheng Xu Citation : For his first observation of turbulence suppression by zonal flows, which triggers the low-to-high ( L-H ) confinement mode transition, as well as his new approach to solve the problem of edge-localized-mode ( ELM )-induced high transient heat load in tokamak. “Low-to-High Confinement Transition Mediated by Turbulence Radial Wave Number Spectral Shift in a Fusion Plasma”, PRL 116 (2016) 095002
2016 Young Researcher Award		Dhanya Mahalingam Balaram Citation :For her contribution on proton entry into the near-lunar plasma wave for magnetic field aligned flow on "observations of protons in the near-lunar　and deeper wake, flowing along interplanetary magnetic fields, which could originate from the tail of the solar wind velocity distribution"(S. Ichimaru) “Proton entry into the near-lunar plasma wake for magnetic field 　　aligned flow”,　Geophysical Research Letters 40(2013)2913
2016 Young Researcher Award		Kazunori Takahashi Citation : For his outstanding and definitive contributions to the problem of helicon based prasma thruster through studies of theoretical limits of diamagnetic induced momentum in a rapidly diverging magnetic nozzle.(P.K. Kaw) Citation : For his contribution on approaching the theoretical limit of diamagnetic-induced momentum in a rapidly diverging magnetic nozzle, on "measurements of axial momenta for a low-beta plasma injected in a rapidly diverging magnetic nozzle, demonstrating increase in the momentum as the magnetic fields inhibit the cross-field diffusion".(S. Ichimaru) Citation : For his experimental work giving insight into the basic plasma physics associated with helicon thruster development.(D.B.Melrose) ”Approaching the Theoretical Limit of Diamagnetic-Induced Momentum in a Rapidly Diverging Magnetic Nozzle”, PRL 110(2013)195003 RMPP Article
2016 Young Researcher Award		Wei Lu Citation : For his unique and highly intuitive elucidation of relativistic plasma wakefields in the blowout regime for particle acceleration.(P. K. Kaw) “Nonlinear Theory for Relativistic Plasma Wakefields in the Blowout Regime”, PRL 96(2006)165002
2016 Young Researcher Award		Tsuyoshi Inoue Citation : For his contribution on the acceleration Galactic cosmic rays at shocks associated with young super nova remnants, in particular his well-cited paper.(D.B.Melrose) “Toward Understanding the Cosmic-ray Acceleration at Young Supernova Remnants Interacting with Interstellar Clouds", Possible Applications to RX J1713.7−3946 The Astrophysical Journal 744(2012)71

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