Will Fuller

Will Fuller

Experimentalist, Engineer, and Adventurer

William Fuller - About Me

I am currently finishing off my PhD with the University of Warwick but I’m based at UKAEA’s Culham campus working on the MAST-U spherical tokamak. At UKAEA I am the assistant Responsible Officer (RO) for the midplane reciprocating probe (RP), which means I get to get hands-on with a tempermental pnumatic driven reciprocation system with changeble heads! This makes operation more complex and chaotic, especially when a new probe head is swapped out. I do my best to understand the system and organise the rat’s nest of cables as best I can though!

My PhD project is centered around designing a new probe head for the RP system on MAST-U, targeting turbulent measurements in the scrape-off layer (SOL). I designed a probe head named the “Turbulence Probe Head”. It has 15 different Langmuir Probes arranged in several multi-functional arrays to capture as much information from the plasma as possible.

I am a former cryogenic test engineer, where I wired, tested, and installed custom cryogenic systems across the globe. These systems were used mostly for materials research and quantum computing. I worked mostly on dry cryostats, where a small amount of Helium gas was liquified and cooled copper stages via conduction in a closed loop. But I also occasionally worked on wet cryostats which use large amounts of liquid Helium, such as dilution fridges, capable of < 5mK temperatures!

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