My activity of research concerns the analytical and numerical investigation of the behavior of of energetic electrons and ions in magnetised plasmas.

My present work is mainly focused on the acceleration of thermal electrons in the presence of the strong fields characterizing a magnetic reconnection event. The interesting features of this subject are represented both by the investigation of the complex evolving magnetic field topology in various fluid models of magnetic reconnection and by the effects of these fields on the single electron dynamics and on the global electron distribution function. This topic offers a further important aspect, namely the possibility to extend this investigation to the wide range of different environments presenting particle acceleration effects in the presence of different MHD backgrounds, both in fusion and in space plasmas.

Contact Details

Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics
Department of Physics
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

telephone:
44 (0) 24 761 50214

email:
A.Perona_at_warwick.ac.uk

office:
PS124