Matthew Parsons
- Degree/Program
- BS Physics '15, Honors
About Me
Matthew Parsons has completed undergraduate research internships at the University of Maryland, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. After graduating from Drexel's Honors Program, he continued to work at Princeton for a year until taking on a Fulbright Study/Research Grant in France to work on the ITER project. Still in the field of nuclear fusion research, Matthew is now a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he works on controls and plasma diagnostics on the HIDRA stellarator.
Related content
NSF Fellow to combine plasma modeling with experimental work using HIDRA - July 2017
The things that aren't planned (Franco American Commission Blog) -- December 2016
Fusion Fanatic (PHC Magazine) -- October 2016
Finding Alternative Energy in France -- April 2016
Updates from the Field: Matthew Parsons -- November 2015
Last updated: September, 2018