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Curriculum Vitae for Richard Fitzpatrick: March 2012

Personal Details:

Full Name:        Richard Fitzpatrick
Nationality:       U.S. (Naturalized 2008. Formerly UK)
Date of Birth:    15th August, 1963
Marital Status:   Married to Faith S. Steinberg, 8th March 1997

Education:
MA (Physics), University of Cambridge, First class hons. (triple first) (1984).
D.Phil (Astronomy), University of Sussex, The Axisymmetric Pulsar Magnetosphere, supervised by Prof. L. Mestel, FRS (1988).

Employment:
August 2006 to date: Professor & Research Scientist, Department of Physics & Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
September 2000 to August 2006: Associate Professor & Research Scientist, Department of Physics & Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
January 1994 to August 2000: Assistant Professor & Research Scientist, Department of Physics & Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
October 1987 to December 1993: Senior Scientific Officer, Culham Laboratory, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

Ph.D. Student Supervision:
Edmund P. Yu: ``Dynamics of tearing modes in reversed field pinches'', 2001.
Andrew Cole: ``Forced magnetic reconnection in tokamak plasmas'', 2006.

Service:
Member of Royal Astronomical Society since 1988.
Fellow of American Physical Society since 2003.
Regular reviewer for Physics Review Letters, Physics of Plasmas, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, and Nuclear Fusion.
Regular grant reviewer for the U.S. Office of Fusion Energy Sciences.

Journal Articles:
1. R. Fitzpatrick, and L. Mestel, Pulsar electrodynamics-I, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 232, 277 (1988). Citations: 28.
2. R. Fitzpatrick, and L. Mestel, Pulsar electrodynamics-II, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 232, 303 (1988). Citations: 22.
3. C.M. Bishop, R. Fitzpatrick, R.J. Hastie, and J.C. Jackson, Alpha particle induced magnetoacoustic instability in a thermonuclear plasma, Plas. Phys. Contrl. Fus. 31, 431 (1989). Citations: 0.
4. R. Fitzpatrick, On the stability of equilibria with unorthodox profiles to the resistive internal kink mode, Plas. Phys. Contrl. Fus. 31, 1127 (1989). Citations: 2.
5. R. Fitzpatrick, Linear stability of low mode number tearing modes in the banana collisionality regime, Phys. Fluids B 1, 2381 (1989). Citations: 2.
6. R. Fitzpatrick, The effect of trapped particles on the linear stability of long wavelength resistive modes, Phys. Fluids B 2, 2636 (1990). Citations: 8.
7. R. Fitzpatrick, and T.C. Hender, The interaction of resonant magnetic perturbations with rotating plasmas, Phys. Fluids B 3, 644 (1991). Citations: 139.
8. R. Fitzpatrick, C.G. Gimblett, and R.J. Hastie, On the `` $1{\scriptstyle\frac{1}{2}}$ -D'' evolution of tokamak plasmas in the case of large aspect ratio, Plas. Phys. Contrl. Fus. 34, 161 (1992). Citations: 5.
9. A.W. Morris, P.G. Carolan, R. Fitzpatrick, T.C. Hender, and T.N. Todd, Driven magnetic reconnection in the COMPASS-C tokamak, Phys. Fluids B 4, 413 (1992). Citations: 40.
10. R.J. La Haye, R. Fitzpatrick, T.C. Hender, A.W. Morris, J.T. Scoville, and T.N. Todd, Critical error fields for locked mode instability in tokamaks, Phys. Fluids B 4, 2098 (1992). Citations: 80.
11. T.C. Hender, R. Fitzpatrick, A.W. Morris, et al., Effect of resonant magnetic perturbations on COMPASS-C tokamak discharges, Nucl. Fusion 32, 2091 (1992). Citations: 117.
12. R. Fitzpatrick, The interaction of tearing modes with external structures in cylindrical geometry, Nucl. Fusion 33, 1049 (1993). Citations: 184.
13. R. Fitzpatrick, R.J. Hastie, T.J. Martin, and C.M. Roach, Stability of coupled tearing modes in tokamaks, Nucl. Fusion 33, 1533 (1993). Citations: 55.
14. R. Fitzpatrick, Effect of a nonuniform resistive wall on the stability of tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 1, 2931 (1994). Citations: 16.
15. R. Fitzpatrick, Stability of coupled tearing and twisting modes in tokamaks, Phys. Plasmas 1, 3308 (1994). Citations: 1.
16. R. Fitzpatrick, and T.C. Hender, Effect of a static magnetic perturbation on resistive mode stability in tokamaks, Phys. Plasmas 1, 3337 (1994). Citations: 16.
17. R. Fitzpatrick, Helical temperature perturbations associated with tearing modes in tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 2, 825 (1995). Citations: 251.
18. R. Fitzpatrick, and A.Y. Aydemir, Stabilization of the resistive shell mode in tokamaks, Nucl. Fusion 36, 11 (1996). Citations: 79.
19. R. Fitzpatrick, and T.H. Jensen, Stabilization of the resistive wall mode using a fake rotating shell, Phys. Plasmas 3, 2641 (1996). Citations: 64.
20. F.L. Waelbroeck, and R. Fitzpatrick, Rotation and locking of magnetic islands, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1703 (1997). Citations: 66.
21. R. Fitzpatrick, and E.P. Yu, Angular momentum injection into a Penning-Malmberg trap, Phys. Plasmas 4, 917 (1997). Citations: 4.
22. R. Fitzpatrick, Feedback stabilization of the resistive shell mode in a tokamak fusion reactor, Phys. Plasmas 4, 2519 (1997). Citations: 19.
23. T.H. Jensen, and R. Fitzpatrick, Resistive wall feedback stabilization, Phys. Plasmas 4, 2997 (1997). Citations: 34.
24. R. Fitzpatrick, The effect of a partial resistive shell on the magnetohydrodynamical stability of tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 4, 4043 (1997). Citations: 3.
25. R. Fitzpatrick, and E.P. Yu, Optimum design of feedback coils for the control of external modes in tokamaks, Phys. Plasmas 5, 2340 (1998). Citations: 15.
26. R. Fitzpatrick, Bifurcated states of a rotating tokamak plasma in the presence of a static error-field, Phys. Plasmas 5, 3325 (1998). Citations: 98.
27. R. Fitzpatrick, Formation and locking of the ``slinky mode'' in reversed field pinches, Phys. Plasmas 6, 1168 (1999). Citations: 39.
28. R. Fitzpatrick, and E.P. Yu, Feedback stabilization of resistive shell modes in a reversed field pinch, Phys. Plasmas 6, 3536 (1999). Citations: 34.
29. R. Fitzpatrick, S.C. Guo, D.J. DenHartog, and C.C. Hegna, Effect of a resistive vacuum vessel on dynamo mode rotation in reversed field pinches, Phys. Plasmas 6, 3878 (1999). Citations: 36.
30. R. Fitzpatrick, and E.P. Yu, Nonlinear dynamo mode dynamics in reversed field pinches, Phys. Plasmas 7, 3610 (2000). Citations: 12.
31. R. Fitzpatrick, F. L. Waelbroeck, Nonlinear dynamics of feedback modulated magnetic islands in toroidal plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 7, 4983 (2000). Citations: 15.
32. A. Bhattacharjee, R. Fitzpatrick, and Xiaogang Wang, Comment on ``Improved boundary layer analysis of forced magnetic reconnection due to a boundary perturbation'' [Phys. Plasmas 7, 875 (2000)], Phys. Plasmas 8, 374 (2001). Citations: 5.
33. R. Fitzpatrick, Conceptual design of an active feedback system for the control of the resistive shell mode in tokamaks, Phys. Plasmas 8, 871-884 (2001). Citations: 12.
34. R. Fitzpatrick, and E. Rossi, Control of tearing modes in toroidal fusion experiments using ``designer'' error-fields, Phys. Plasmas 8, 2760 (2001). Citations: 7.
35. R. Fitzpatrick, E. Rossi, and E.P. Yu, Improved evolution equations for magnetic island chains in toroidal pinch plasmas subject to externally applied resonant magnetic perturbations, Phys. Plasmas 8, 4489, (2001). Citations: 5.
36. R. Fitzpatrick, and P. Zanca, Phase-locking of tearing modes in the reversed field experiment, Phys. Plasmas 9, 2707 (2002). Citations: 21.
37. R. Fitzpatrick, A simple model of the resistive wall mode in tokamaks, Phys. Plasmas 9, 3459, (2002). Citations: 46.
38. E. Lazzaro, R.J. Buttery, T.C. Hender, P. Zanca, R. Fitzpatrick, M. Bigi, T. Bolzonella, R. Coelho, M. DeBenedetti, S. Nowak, O. Sauter, and, M. Stamp, Error field locked modes thresholds in rotating plasmas, anomalous braking and spin-up, Phys. Plasmas 9, 3906, (2002). Citations: 51.
39. R. Fitzpatrick, Plasma parameter scaling of the error-field penetration threshold in tokamaks, Phys. Plasmas 10, 1782 (2003). Citations: 16.
40. R. Fitzpatrick, A numerical study of forced magnetic reconnection in the viscous Taylor problem, Phys. Plasmas 10, 2304 (2003). Citations: 10.
41. R. Fitzpatrick, A. Bhattacharjee, Z.W. Ma, and T. Linde, Wave driven magnetic reconnection in the Taylor problem, Phys. Plasmas 10, 4284 (2003). Citations: 2.
42. R. Fitzpatrick, Scaling of forced magnetic reconnection in the Hall-magnetohydrodynamical Taylor problem, Phys. Plasmas 11, 937 (2004). Citations: 50.
43. S.A. Sabbagh, J.M. Bialek, R.E. Bell, A.H. Glasser, B.P. LeBlanc, J.E. Menard, F. Paoletti, M.G. Bell, R. Fitzpatrick, E.D. Fredrickson, A.M. Garofalo, D.A. Gates, S.M. Kaye, L.L. Lao, R. Maingi, D. Mueller, G.A. Navratil, D. Stutman, W. Zhu, and the NSTX Reseach Team, The resistive wall mode and feedback control physics design in NSTX, Nucl. Fusion 44, 560 (2004). Citations: 26.
44. B.E. Chapman, R. Fitzpatrick, D. Craig, P. Martin, and G. Spizzo, Observation of tearing mode deceleration and locking due to eddy currents induced in a conducting shell, Phys. Plasmas 11, 2156 (2004). Citations: 13.
45. M. Shilov, C. Cates, R. James, A. Klein, O. Katsuro-Hopkins, Y. Liu, M.E. Mauel, D.A. Mauer, G.A. Navratil, T.S. Pedersen, N. Stillis, R. Fitzpatrick, and S.F. Paul, Dynamical plasma response of resistive wall modes to changing external magnetic perturbations, Phys. Plasmas 11, 2573 (2004). Citations: 27.
46. A. Cole, and R. Fitzpatrick, Forced magnetic reconnection in the inviscid Taylor problem, Phys. Plasmas 11, 3525 (2004). Citations: 5.
47. R. Fitzpatrick, Scaling of forced magnetic reconnection in the Hall-magnetohydrodynamical Taylor problem with arbitrary guide-field, Phys. Plasmas 11, 3961 (2004). Citations: 15.
48. R. Fitzpatrick, and F. Porcelli, Collisionless magnetic reconnection with arbitrary guide field, Phys. Plasmas 11, 4713 (2004). Citations: 28.
49. A. Cole, and R. Fitzpatrick, Response to ``Comment on `Forced magnetic reconnection in the inviscid Taylor problem' '', Phys. Plasmas 11, 5736 (2004). Citations: 0.
50. K.W. Madison, P.K. Patel, M. Allen, D. Price, R., Fitzpatrick, and T. Ditmire, Role of laser-pulse duration in the neutron yield of deuterium cluster targets, Phys. Rev. A 70, 053201-1-7 (2004). Citations: 39.
51. R. Fitzpatrick, and F.L. Waelbroeck, Two-fluid magnetic island dynamics in slab geometry. I. Isolated islands, Phys. Plasmas 12, 022307 (2005). Citations: 12.
52. R. Fitzpatrick, and F.L. Waelbroeck, Two-fluid magnetic island dynamics in slab geometry. II. Islands interacting with resistive walls or resonant magnetic perturbations, Phys. Plasmas 12, 022308 (2005). Citations: 7.
53. R. Fitzpatrick, P.G. Watson, and F.L. Waelbroeck, Two-fluid magnetic island dynamics in slab geometry: Determination of the island phase velocity, Phys. Plasmas 12, 082510 (2005). Citations: 10.
54. S.C. Prager, J. Adney, A. Almagri, J. Anderson, A. Blair, D.L. Brower, M. Cengher, B.E. Chapman, S. Choi, D. Craig, S. Combs, D.R. Demers, D.J. Den Hartog, B. Deng, W.X. Ding, F. Ebrahimi, D. Ennis, G. Fiksel, R. Fitzpatrick, C. Foust, C.B. Forest, P. Franz, L. Frassinetti, J. Goetz, D. Holly, B. Hudson, M. Kaufman, T. Lovell, L. Marrelli, P. Martin, K. McCollam, V.V. Mirnov, P. Nonn, R. O'Connell, S. Oliva, P. Piovesan, I. Predebon, J.S. Sarff, G. Spizzo, V. Svidzinski, M. Thomas, E. Uchimoto, R. White, M. Wyman, Overview of results in the MST reversed field pinch experiment, Nucl. Fusion 45, S276 (2005). Citations: 7.
55. R. Fitzpatrick, and F.L. Waelbroeck, Effect of drift-acoustic waves on magnetic island stability in slab geometry, Phys. Plasmas 12, 122511 (2005). Citations: 9.
56. A. Cole, and R. Fitzpatrick, Drift-magnetohydrodynamical model of error-field penetration in tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 13, 032503 (2006). Citations: 28.
57. R. Fitzpatrick, and J. Bialek, Stability of the resistive wall mode in HBT-EP plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 13, 072512 (2006). Citations: 5.
58. R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck, and F. Militello, The influence of the ion polarization current on magnetic island stability in a tokamak plasma, Phys. Plasmas 13, 122507 (2006). Citations: 20.
59. F.L. Waelbroeck, R. Fitzpatrick, and D. Grasso, Effect of sheared flow on magnetic islands, Phys. Plasmas 14, 022302 (2007). Citations: 5.
60. R. Fitzpatrick, Effect of an error-field on the stability of the resistive wall mode, Phys. Plasmas 14, 022505 (2007). Citations: 2.
61. R. Fitzpatrick, and F. Porcelli, Erratum: Collisionless magnetic reconnection with arbitrary guide-field [Phys. Plasmas 11, 4713 (2004)], Phys. Plasmas 14, 049902 (2007). Citations: 13.
62. E.J. Strait, A.M. Garofalo, G.L. Jackson, M. Okabayashi, H. Reimerdes, M.S. Chu, R. Fitzpatrick, R.L. Groebner, Y. In, R.J. LaHaye, M.J. Lanctot, Y.Q. Liu, G.A. Navratil, W.M. Solomon, H. Takahashi, and the DIII-D Team, Resistive wall mode stabilization by slow plasma rotation in DIII-D tokamak discharges with balanced neutral beam injection, Phys. Plasmas 14, 056101 (2007). Citations: 29.
63. R. Fitzpatrick, Interaction of scrape-off layer currents with magnetohydrodynamical instabilities in tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 14, 062505 (2007). Citations: 4.
64. R. Fitzpatrick, and F.L. Waelbroeck, Hypersonic drift-tearing magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 14, 122502 (2007). Citations: 3.
65. R. Fitzpatrick, and F.L. Waelbroeck, Drift-tearing magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 15, 012502 (2008). Citations: 6.
66. R. Fitzpatrick, Scaling of the peak magnetic reconnection rate in the inviscid Taylor problem, Phys. Plasmas 15, 024503 (2008). Citations: 0.
67. F. Militello, F.L. Waelbroeck, and R. Fitzpatrick, Interaction between turbulence and a nonlinear tearing mode in the low beta regime, Phys. Plasmas 15, 050701 (2008). Citations: 17.
68. R. Fitzpatrick, A sharp boundary model for the vertical and kink stability of large aspect-ratio vertically elongated tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 15, 092502 (2008). Citations: 1.
69. F.L. Waelbroeck, F. Militello, R. Fitzpatrick, and W. Horton, Effect of electrostatic turbulence on magnetic islands, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 51, 015015 (2009). Citations: 6.
70. R. Fitzpatrick, A simple ideal magnetohydrodynamical model of vertical disruption events in tokamaks, Phys. Plasmas 16, 012506 (2009). Citations: 3.
71. R. Fitzpatrick, Error-field induced electromagnetic torques in a large aspect-ratio. low-beta, weakly shaped tokamak plasma, Phys. Plasmas 16, 032502 (2009). Citations: 1.
72. R. Fitzpatrick, and F.L. Waelbroeck, Effect of local ExB flow shear on the stability of magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 16, 052502 (2009). Citations: 2.
73. R. Fitzpatrick, and F.L. Waelbroeck, Effect of flow damping on drift-tearing magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 16, 072507 (2009). Citations: 2.
74. R. Fitzpatrick, Magnetic reconnection in weakly collisional highly magnetized electron-ion plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 17, 042101 (2010). Citations: 3.
75. R. Fitzpatrick, and F.L. Waelbroeck, Locked magnetic island chains in toroidally flow damped tokamak plasmas, Plasma Phys. Control. Nuclear Fusion 52, 055006 (2010). Citations: 3.
76. R. Fitzpatrick, and F.L. Waelbroeck, A drift-magnetohydrodynamical fluid model of helical magnetic island equilibria in the pedestals of H-mode tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 17, 062503 (2010). Citations: 2.
77. R. Fitzpatrick, A nonideal error-field response model for strongly shaped tokamak plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 17, 112502 (2010). Citations: 0.
78. R. Fitzpatrick, Theory of nonaxisymmetric vertical displacement events in tokamaks, Nucl. Fusion 51, 053007 (2011). Citations: 0.

Invited Talks:
1. MHD modes in rotating tokamak plasmas, 13th International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, Washington DC, 1990.
2. Non-linear theories of interacting magnetic islands, Joint Varenna-Lausanne International Workshop, Varenna, Italy, 1992.
3. Effect of a non-uniform resistive wall on the stability of tokamak plasmas, International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, Dallas TX, 1994.
4. Bifurcated states of a rotating tokamak plasma in the presence of a static error-field, International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, Atlanta GA, 1998.
5. Nonlinear dynamics of dynamo modes in reversed field pinches, Centennial Meeting of American Physical Society, Atlanta GA, 1999.
6. Dynamo mode dynamics in reversed field pinches, 41st Annual Meeting of American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Seattle WA, 1999.
7. Nonlinear dynamics of feedback modulated magnetic islands, Innovative Confinement Concept 2000 Meeting, Berkeley CA, 2000.
8. Control of tearing modes via ``designer'' resonant magnetic perturbations, International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, Santa Fe NM, 2001.
9. Phase locking of tearing modes in reversed field pinches, International RFP Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, 2002.
10. Plasma parameter scaling of the error-field penetration threshold in tokamaks, 44th Annual Meeting of American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Orlando FL, 2002.
11. Wave driven magnetic reconnection in the Taylor problem, Interelation between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space Conference, Whitefish MT, 2003.
12. A new set of reduced 2-D fluid equations, Conference of Italian Plasma Physics, Florence, Italy, 2004.
13. A new set of reduced 2-D fluid equations, Office of Fusion Energy Science Remote Theory Seminar, Austin TX, 2004.
14. Introduction to magnetic island theory, Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics, Plasma Physics Winter School, UCLA CA, 2005.
15. Determining the phase velocity of magnetic islands in two-fluid plasmas, 9th Plasma Easter Meeting, Turin, Italy, 2005.
16. External modes and resistive wall modes, International School of Fusion Reactor Technology, Course on ``Global and Local Control of Tokamak Plasmas'', Erice, Sicily, 2005.
17. Interaction of scrape-off layer currents with magnetohydrodynamical instabilities in tokamak plasmas, 3rd IAEA Technical Meeting on the Theory of Plasma Instabilities, York UK, 2007.
18. Interaction of scrape-off layer currents with magnetohydrodynamical instabilities in tokamak plasmas, 2007 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, Annapolis MD, 2007.
19. Introduction to magnetic island theory, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, 2007 Summer College on Plasma Physics, Trieste, Italy, 2007.
20. Magnetic islands in plasmas, 50th Annual Meeting of American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Dallas TX, 2008.
21. Fundamentals of magnetic island theory in tokamaks, 4th ITER International Summer School, Austin TX, 2010.
22. Magnetic reconnection in tokamaks, Summer School on MHD and Kinetic Processes in Laboratory, Space and Astrophysical Plasmas, Beijing, China, 2011.
23. Spontaneous healing and growth of locked magnetic island chains in stellarator plasmas, US-Japan Workshop, Toki City, Japan, 2012.

Books:
1. Euclid's Elements (Lulu, 2007) ISBN: 978-0615179841.
  
  An edition of Euclid's Elements of Geometry consisting of the definitive Greek text of J.L. Heiberg (1883-1885) accompanied by a modern English translation and a Greek-English lexicon.
2. Maxwell's Equations and the Principles of Electromagnetism (Infinity Science Press, Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2008) ISBN: 978-1934015209.
  
  A textbook aimed at upper-division physics majors.

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