Maria Gatu Johnson
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Uppsala University (2010 Ph.D.)
Maria Gatu Johnson | |
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| Born | 1978 (age 46–47) Sweden |
| Alma mater | Uppsala University (2008 M.Sc.) Uppsala University (2010 Ph.D.) |
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| Fields | Plasma physics |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Fusion Plasma Observations at JET with the TOFOR Neutron Spectrometer: Instrumental Challenges and Physics Results (2010) |
Maria Gatu Johnson (born 1978)[1] is a Swedish-American plasma physicist whose research involves the use of neutron spectrometry to study inertial confinement fusion and stellar nucleosynthesis. She works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a principal research scientist in the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center.[2]
Gatu Johnson earned a master's degree in engineering physics from Uppsala University in Sweden in 2003, and completed a Ph.D. in applied nuclear physics there in 2010.[3] Her work there involved the application of neutron spectrometry to the Joint European Torus, a magnetic confinement fusion experiment in England.[4]
She was a postdoctoral researcher at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center from 2010 to 2013, before becoming a permanent member of the research staff there.[3] In 2023 she was promoted to principal research scientist.[2] At the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, she has been in charge of the Magnetic Recoil Neutron Spectrometer (MRS) beginning in 2013.[5] In 2024 the Plasma Science and Fusion Center appointed her Assistant Director for Career Development and Community Building. [6]
