Benjamin holds a PhD in Physics for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is an expert on turbulence in stellarator devices. A computational physicist by training, he is a staff research scientist in the Department of Engineering Physics at UW-Madison working on building new tools and infrastructure for stellarator optimization, with a focus on turbulence optimization.
Prior to joining UW-Madison, Ben received a Masters from Princeton University, and a Bachelors from Caltech. He is a native of Hays, KS.