BJ Peterson

Byron J. Peterson (M'83) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1994, for his work on the measurement of currents and flows in the interchangeable module stellarator. After graduation, he continued his research on the Heliotron-E device as a Postdoctoral Fellow for one year. In 1995, he joined the National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Japan, as an Assistant Professor responsible for the development of bolometer diagnostics for the large helical device (LHD). Since the beginning of LHD experiments in 1998, he has focused on the development of imaging bolometers and the study of radiative phenomena in LHD.