Jacob Schwartz
Currently: Staff Scientist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; Formerly: Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Dr. Jacob A. Schwartz is a staff research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
He previously worked as a postdoctoral research scholar at Princeton University, working with the Plasma Control Group to develop an open-source “systems code” for tokamaks and with ZERO Lab to study fusion’s value as part of future electricity markets and contributed to the development of the open-source GenX electricity system planning model. He earned his doctorate in Princeton’s Program in Plasma Physics, where his thesis work focused on developing a piece of technology with application for nuclear fusion reactors.