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Matthew Reinke

Dr Reinke recently joined the University of York Physics Department as part of a team of staff, students and post-docs at the York Plasma Institute working on magnetic confinement fusion. His research focuses on achieving the physics and engineering goals necessary to harness nuclear fusion as a commercial power source. By using advanced experimental facilities in the UK and abroad, the York team works to expand our basic physics understanding of high-temperature, magnetically confined plasmas.

Dr Reinke completed his undergraduate and doctoral work in the United States, earning bachelor’s degrees in Engineering Mechanics and Physics from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a PhD in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He’s worked for over 13 years at magnetic confinement fusion facilities, at the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment at UW-Madison and on Alcator C-Mod at MIT. Research focuses on the development of novel, bespoke instruments to study high temperature plasmas, using them to understand the how trace impurities can both benefit and harm fusion plasmas.