FPN07-24

Tillack Named FPA VP for Communications

April 18, 2007

Dr. Mark S. Tillack (University of California, San Diego) has been named Vice President, Communications, of Fusion Power Associates (FPA). In this post, he will provide advice and guidance to FPA on improving FPA communications within the community and with the public and will continue to maintain portions of the FPA web site. The post is a voluntary service to Fusion Power Associates. Mark continues his full time professional position as a Research Scientist and Lecturer in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCSD and Associate Director of the UCSD Center for Energy Research.

Mark received his Ph.D in nuclear engineering from MIT in 1983. He was a member of the Institute for Plasma and Fusion Research at UCLA from 1983 to 1994 and then spent one year as a Guest Research Scientist at the Forschungszentrum in Karlsuhe, Germany before joining the fusion group at UCSD. He was Engineering Leader for the U.S. Fusion Power Plant Studies Program, 1994-2002. In 1998, he was chosen by Fusion Power Associates Board of Directors as a recipient of its Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award.

Mark can be reached at mtillack@ucsd.edu