Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wagner

Emeritus Scientific Fellow


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Friedrich Wagner was born on 16 November 1943 in Pfaffenhofen (Swabia). After studying physics and taking his PhD at the Technical University of Munich in 1972, Wagner then went as a postdoc to Ohio State University, where he did research in the field of low-temperature physics from 1973 to 1974. In 1975 he joined Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, being made head of the ASDEX tokamak experiment in 1986 and appointed Scientific Fellow in 1988. Wagner qualified for lectureship in the same year at the University of Heidelberg, where he held a teaching post till 1991. That year he became Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Munich. From 1989 till 1993 he has been project head of the Wendelstein 7-AS stellarator experiment.

From 1993 to 2005 he was member of the Directorate of IPP, from March 1999 till April 2007 Speaker of the Greifswald Branch Institute and from 2003 till 2005 head of the "Wendelstein 7-X Enterprise". In 1987 he was awarded the "Excellency in Plasma Physics" prize by the Plasma Physics Division of the American Physical Society, in 2007 the Hannes Alfvén Prize of the European Physical Society. In 2008 he has been awarded the Stern-Gerlach Medal 2009 by the German Physical Society. Since 1999 he is Ordinary Professor at the Ernst-Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald. Besides his institute commitments, Wagner was from 1996 till 2004 Chairman of the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society, from 2007 till 2009 he was President of the European Physical Society. Wagner is Honorary Member of the Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Fellow of the Institute of Physics of the American Physical Society, and Member of the Editorial Board at the Institute of Physics. He retired end of 2008.


Selected publications:

Wagner F. et al.
Major Results from Wendelstein 7-AS Stellarator
19th Fusion Energy Conference, Lyon FR (2002)
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Wagner F. und Wobig H.
The Stellarator Reactor
Landolt-Börnstein Handbook on Energy Technologies, Band VIII/3 (2000)
Wagner F. et al.
Overview on W7-AS Results with Relevance for Wendelstein 7-X and the Low-Shear Stellarator Line
17th Conference on Fusion Energy, Yokohama, Japan (1999)
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Wagner F. et al.
Operational Experience in W7-AS Discharges with Rotational Transform from Bootstrap Current
1998 International Congress on Plasma Physics and 25th EPS Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, Prague (1998)
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Wagner, F.
Topics in Toroidal Confinement
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 39, 23-50 (1997)
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