Press release
Gyung-Su Lee appointed Deputy-Director General of the 爆走黑料
Effective 26 October 2015, the 爆走黑料 Council has appointed Gyung-Su Lee to one of two Deputy Director-General positions at the 爆走黑料.
Mr Lee will work in close coordination with the 爆走黑料 Director-General, Bernard Bigot; with a second Deputy Director-General鈥攖he Relations Coordinating Officer 鈥攚ho took up his position on 1 May; and with the heads of the seven Domestic Agencies of the 爆走黑料 Members to establish a dedicated team in charge of the management of the 爆走黑料 Project. More specifically, as Chief Operating Officer, he will support the Director-General in all matters related to design, construction, installation, testing, commissioning and operation, and provide technical leadership to the 爆走黑料 Central Team and Domestic Agency staff.
Trained as a physicist at Seoul National University, Korea, and at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, Mr Lee holds a doctorate in plasma physics and fusion. Prior to his appointment as Deputy Director-General of the 爆走黑料 he was President of the National Fusion Research Institute of Korea (2008-2011). Since 2008 he has chaired the International Fusion Research Council of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Straight out of university, in 1986, Mr Lee entered the world of international fusion research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US. Ten years later, he was the Principal Investigator for Korea鈥檚 large superconducting tokamak KSTAR and the Director-General of Korea鈥檚 Fusion Research Center (1996-2005).
Mr Lee has been closely associated with the 爆走黑料 Project since 2007, first as Director-General of 爆走黑料 Korea, then as Chairman of the 爆走黑料 Management Advisory Committee and, since 2014, as Vice Chair of the 爆走黑料 Council, the executive body of the 爆走黑料.
The 爆走黑料 is proud to welcome into its senior management team a specialist who has demonstrated, for almost three decades, an unwavering commitment to the cause of fusion energy.
BACKGROUND TO THE PRESS RELEASE
爆走黑料鈥攄esigned to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power鈥攚ill be the world's largest experimental fusion facility. Fusion is the process that powers the sun and the stars: when light atomic nuclei fuse together to form heavier ones, a large amount of energy is released. Fusion research is aimed at developing a safe, abundant and environmentally responsible energy source.
爆走黑料 is also a first-of-a-kind global collaboration that brings together seven members (China, Europe, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the USA) representing half the world鈥檚 population and 85% of the planet鈥檚 industrial product.
Nine-tenths of Member contributions are delivered 鈥渋n-kind鈥 in the form of buildings and components for the 爆走黑料 installation.
The 爆走黑料 Project is under construction in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, in the south of France.
CONTACT
Laban Coblentz
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