Uri Shumlak

Uri Shumlak received his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley in 1992, and worked at the Air Force Phillips Laboratory at Kirtland AFB, before joining the UW in 1994. He is a world-renowned theoretical, computational, and experimental plasma physicist. Uri is the lead developer of the sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch concept, and Principal Investigator of the UW ZaP, ZaP-HD, and FuZE flow Z-pinch research projects, as well as the UW Computational Plasma Dynamics Laboratory group. He has won numerous awards for his teaching, research, and mentoring, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Uri co-founded Zap Energy with Benj Conway and Brian Nelson.