Warren B. Mori
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| Born | Warren Bicknell Mori (1959-08-08) August 8, 1959 (age 64) |
| Education | UC Berkeley (B.S.), UCLA (M.S., Ph.D.) |
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| Fields | Plasma physics |
| Institutions | UCLA |
| Thesis | Theory and Simulations on Beat Wave Excitation of Relativisitic Plasma Waves (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Francis F. Chen, John M. Dawson, Chandrashekhar J. Joshi |
Warren Bicknell Mori (born August 8, 1959) is an American computational plasma physicist and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] He was awarded the 2020 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics[2] for his contributions to the theory and computer simulations of non-linear processes in plasma-based acceleration using kinetic theory,[3][4] as well as for his research in relativistically intense lasers and beam-plasma interactions.[5][6]
Mori received a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. He then went to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and obtained a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1984 and 1987 respectively.[1][2] For his Ph.D. in electrical engineering, Mori was supervised by plasma physicists Francis F. Chen, John M. Dawson and Chandrashekhar J. Joshi,[7] all of whom were noted for winning the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics. Mori then remained at UCLA, and has been there ever since.
Mori was a director of UCLA's Institute for Digital Research and Education.[8] He is currently a director of UCLA's Particle-in-Cell and Kinetic Simulation Software Center[9] and Plasma Simulation Group.[10]
Mori is a fellow of the American Physical Society[11] and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[2]
In 1995, Mori received the International Center for Theoretical Physics Medal for Excellence in Nonlinear Plasma Physics by a Young Researcher. He also won the 2016 Advanced Accelerator Concepts Prize of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for "his leadership and pioneering contributions in theory and particle-in-cell code simulations of plasma based particle acceleration".[12][2]
Mori was awarded the 2020 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for "leadership in and pioneering contributions to the theory and kinetic simulations of nonlinear processes in plasma-based acceleration, and relativistically intense laser and beam plasma interactions".[2]
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