Professor Peter Manz – Max Planck Fellow
His research group “Physics of the Outer Rim” will be based at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald.
Peter Manz, Experimental Plasma Physics Professor at the University of Greifswald, has been appointed a Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) by the President of the Max Planck Society. “The freedom of research that this entails is rare and extremely valuable. I really appreciate it,” he said. The Max Planck Fellow program promotes collaboration between outstanding university professors and scientists at the Max Planck Society. The appointment as a Max Planck Fellow is for five years and includes the leadership of a small working group at a Max Planck Institute. Professor Manz's research group is based at the IPP in Greifswald. “We are delighted that the Max Planck Fellowship for Professor Peter Manz will enable us to further intensify our close ties with the University of Greifswald,” Professor Sibylle Günter, Scientific Director of IPP, stated.
Before accepting a professorship at the University of Greifswald in 2021, Professor Peter Manz conducted research at the Universities of Stuttgart and San Diego and then at the IPP in Garching for almost ten years. “In recent years, I have concentrated more and more on turbulence at the separatrix. This will be the focus of the investigations,” Professor Manz said. The separatrix is the magnetic interface in fusion devices that separates the edge plasma from the inner plasma, which is confined without any contact. Professor Peter Manz added: “We will apply fundamental physical concepts to fusion research – concepts, which I came into greater contact with again in the university environment and which have so far had little influence on fusion research. I have a number of ideas, and I now have the opportunity to realize some of them thanks to the Max Planck Fellowship.”
“Physics of the Outer Rim” – this is the name of the new working group that Professor Peter Manz is now setting up at IPP Greifswald. The funding of 100,000 euros per year allows for the employment of scientific staff, financing of business trips and the provision of material resources and investments in equipment. "The rest of the working group will then consist of me and students from the university," Professor Manz stated. "I am now looking for a talented physicist who is enthusiastic about working with students. You have to approach the problems theoretically and experimentally. Depending on who I can recruit for this group, the collaboration will be more experimental or theoretical. If someone reads this and thinks this could be something for him or her, please feel free to contact me."
Julia Sieber