Research Scientist Software Engineer Boston, MA, USA pmoroz@gmail.com

• MS, Physics & Education Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow
• PhD, Physics & Mathematics, General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
  

• Lomonosov Moscow State University
• Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
• General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science & Fusion Center
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• High Factor Solutions
• Tokyo Electron

• fusion plasmas, fusion science and technology, magnetohydrodynamics
• industrial plasmas, materials processing (plasma etching, deposition, ICP, CCP and Microwave plasma sources, etc.)
• compact and extremely-low-aspect-ratio stellarators , alternative fusion schemes
• wave physics, electromagnetic phenomena, pulsed power
• antennas, RF plasma heating and current drive
• computational methods, 2D and 3D visualization, software development, large-scale computer simulations
• numerical simulation of materials processing and feature profile evolution
• finite element methods, computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer
• artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and image processing (including those for DNA research)

Dr. Paul Moroz is a physicist and software engineer with broad interests in areas of plasma physics, materials processing, controlled fusion, wave physics, gas breakdown and electric discharge, fluid dynamics, magnitohydrodynamics, electromagnetic field theory, electrodynamics of charged particles, beam physics and pulsed power.

He developed a number of large-scale computer simulation codes including the codes for RF plasma heating and current drive capable of 3D simulation and imaging of wave excitation by RF antennas, as well as wave penetration, absorption, and mode conversion.

Another area of research includes development of advanced plasma confinement concepts for controlled fusion. Paul proposed a few novel fusion configurations including compact stellarators and hybrids and developed an innovative approach called the Spherical Stellarator, which is a concept combining very low aspect ratio coil designs with a self-induced plasma current (bootstrap current). This concept is capable of overcoming a number of problems typical to traditional approaches in controlled fusion. Helical post stellarators is one of the most compact configurations of this type.

Paul has strong interests in using latest computer advancements and various computer languages and techniques. He has developed software using C, C++, Fortran, Java, Basic and OpenGL. Paul is an experienced X-Windows, Motif, Tcl/Tk and Qt programmer. Some codes use multi-threading techniques and parallelization for multiprocessor environment.

In 1999, Paul took part in a project on optical image analysis of fragments of DNA molecules and their map assembly. He developed two software packages for object selection from images and image processing.

Current interests include research and development in the field of low temperature plasmas and plasma materials processing. Some time is devoted to development of simulation software such as 2D and 3D feature profile codes simulating materials processing at the micron and nano scales, taking into account real geometry and various collisional and chemical processes (via Monte Carlo simulations), as well as software utilizing 2D and 3D finite element methods.

Paul is a U.S. citizen and a member of the American Physical Society and American Vacuum Society. He submitted over 15 U.S. patents, and is an author or co-author of over 100 publications in refereed scientific journals and conference proceedings.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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• P. E. Moroz, "Extremely Low Aspect Ratio Stellarators", Physics Letters A 243, 60-65 (1998) (full text 0.5MB).
• P. E. Moroz, "Novel Stellarator Configuration with Double-Helix Center Post", Nuclear Fusion 38, 795-806 (1998) (full text 1.1MB).
• P. E. Moroz, "Helical Post Stellarator", Plasma Phys. Contr. Fusion 40, 1127 (1998) (full text 0.5MB).
• P. E. Moroz, "Low aspect ratio stellarators with planar coils", Plasma Phys. Contr. Fusion 39, 1841 (1997) (full text 0.4MB).
• P. E. Moroz, "Spherical tokamaks with outboard stellarator windings", Nuclear Fusion 37, 1045 (1997) (full text 0.7MB).
• P. E. Moroz, "Stellarator-Spheromak", Phys. Lett. A 236, 79 (1997) (full text 0.5MB).
• P. E. Moroz, "Spherical Stellarator concept", Stellarator News 48, 2 (1996) (full text 0.5MB).
• S.-G. Lee, D. A. Diebold, N. Hershkowitz, P. E. Moroz, "Wide solitons in an ion-beam plasma system", Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 1290 (1996).
• P. E. Moroz, "Spherical stellarator with plasma current", Physics of Plasmas 3, 3055, 1996 (full text 1.1MB).
• P. E. Moroz, "Spherical stellarator configuration", Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 651 (1996) (full text 0.5MB).
• P. E. Moroz, "Vacuum flux surfaces produced by inclined coils", Physics of Plasmas 2, 4269 (1995) (full text 1.8MB).
• P. E. Moroz, "ALFA code displayed", 15th Int. Conf. on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas, King of Prussia, USA (1994) (full text 0.2MB). .
• P. E. Moroz, "Global analysis of radio-frequency current drive", Plasma Phys. and Contr. Fusion 35, 1145 (1993) (full text 1.34MB). .
• J. A. Schmidt,..., P. E. Moroz, et al., "The design of the Tokamak Physics Experiment (TPX)", Journ. of Fusion Energy 12, 221 (1993).
• R. Majeski, P. Probert, P. E. Moroz et al., "Alfven wave experiments in the Phaedrus-T tokamak", Phys. Fluids B 5, 2506 (1993).
• P. E. Moroz et al., "Fast Wave Damping on non-Maxwellian Electrons", Physics of Fluids B 4, 2915 (1992) (full text 0.7MB).
• P. E. Moroz, P. L. Colestock, "Electron Absorption of Fast Waves in Global Wave Calculations", Plasma Phys. and Contr. Fusion 33, 417 (1991) (full text 0.8MB).
• P. E. Moroz, "On Splitting of Fast-Wave Eigenmodes by the Poloidal Magnetic Field", Sov. Physics, Lebedev Inst. Reports 7, 42 (1988).
• P. E. Moroz, "Alfven Resonance during ICR Heating", Sov. J. Plasma Phys. 13, 317 (1987).
• V. A. Batyuk, ..., P. E. Moroz et al., "Plasma Heating at the Fundamental Ion Cyclotron Frequency in the L-2 Stellarator", Sov. J. Plasma Phys. 13, 143 (1987).
• L. M. Kovrizhnykh, P. E. Moroz, "Cyclotron Absorption of Fast Magnetosonic Wave in a Stellarator", Sov. Physics JETP 60, 946 (1984).
• L. M. Kovrizhnykh, P. E. Moroz, "Fast-Wave Eigenmodes and ICRF Plasma Heating", Sov. Physics, Tech. Phys. 29, 384 (1984).
• L. M. Kovrizhnykh, P. E. Moroz, "Properties of Stellarator Magnetic Fields of Importance in RF Plasma Heating", Sov. Physics, Tech. Phys. 9, 735 (1983).
• P. E. Moroz, "Evolution of Electron Distribution Function in High-Frequency Breakdown of a Gas", Sov. Phys. JETP 50, 688 (1979).
• P. E. Moroz, "Electron Distribution Function in Gas Breakdown by an RF Pulse", Sov. J. Plasma Phys. 5, 632 (1979).

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