James F. Drake, Jr. Professor of Physics Mailing Address: Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics A. V. Williams Bldg., Room 3311 University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742-3511 Phone: (301) 405-1471 Email: drake at umd.edu FAX: (301) 405-1678

James F. Drake, Jr. received his doctorate in physics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1975. He has been with the University of Maryland since 1978.

Professor Drake's research interest is broad, ranging from laboratory magnetic confinement fusion experiments to space plasmas. In magnetospheric physics, his research has focused on the mechanisms by which energy stored in global magnetic fields is transferred to energetic particles. In recent years, Prof. Drake and his colleagues have made important contributions to the understanding of large-scale magnetohydrodynamic activity and thermal and particle transport in laboratory plasma. He has developed computational and analytical techniques to study the rich variety of nonlinear phenomena which occur in present experiments.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Lifetime National Associate of the National Academies.

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