Elena V. Belova is a Research Physicist at the Princeton University
Plasma Physics Laboratory. Her research interests include: kinetic effects on
the MHD stability; interaction of energetic particles with MHD waves; global
stability of the Field-Reversed Configurations; space plasma physics;
numerical simulations, and fluid/kinetic(gyro-kinetic) hybrid models of
plasmas. She has authored or co-authored more than 42 publications in plasma
physics. She received a M.S. in physics from Moscow Institute of
Physics and Technology (Russia), and worked at the Space Research Institute in
Moscow, Russia till 1992. She received a Ph. D. in plasma physics from Dartmouth
College, Hanover NH in 1997. Following a three year post doctoral position with
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, she joined PPPL staff in 2000. She is currently
active in the area of MHD and hybrid simulations of the Field-Reversed Configurations,
and a numerical study of the subcyclotron frequency instabilities driven by the
energetic neutral beam ions in NSTX.
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