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Fatima Ebrahimi
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Fatima Ebrahimi is an Iranian-American physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University. Ebrahimi received a BSc in Physics from the Tehran Polytechnic University (Amirkabir University of Technology) in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003 under the supervision of PPPL Director Stewart Prager. She has collaborated with Ellen Gould Zweibel, Dalton Schnack (American Physical Society Fellow), and many other leading physicists. In 2016, she proposed that magnetic reconnection - the process in which magnetic field lines snap together and release energy - can be triggered by motion in nearby magnetic fields. In November 2020 she proposed a plasma-based rocket propulsion system using magnetic fields rather than more-conventional electrical fields to propel exhaust material. |
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