Minh Quang Tran

Minh Quang Tran
Born	30th May 1951 Saigon
Residence	Lausanne
Fields	Plasma physics
Alma mater	EPFL

Minh-Quang Tran (born in Saigon (Vietnam) on the 30th May 1951^[1]) is a professor at the EPFL.

He graduated physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in 1973, where he did his doctoral thesis in 1977, and where has worked as professor since 1980. He works at the CRPP, with the Tokamak à configuration variable.

He was nominated Leader of EFDA (the European Fusion Development Agreement),^[2] the organisation which manages JET (Joint European Torus), the largest fusion experiment in the world, sited in England. It also supervises numerous technology programmes in Europe in support of ITER, the international experimental fusion reactor project, as well as research for future industrial reactors.

Sources and notes

1. ^ Minh Quang Tran, biography at epfl.ch
2. ^ Professor Minh-Quang Tran has been nominated Leader of EFDA (the European Fusion Development Agreement).

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Name	Tran, Minh Quang
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Date of birth	1951
Place of birth	Saigon
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