Research Experience

• Physicist, LLNL, 2004–Present
• Postdoctoral researcher, LLNL, 2001–2004
• Postdoctoral researcher, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 1999–2001
• Research assistant, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, M.I.T., 1994–1999
• Research assistant, Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, 1992–1993

Maxim Umansky is a theoretical and computational plasma physicist. His research interests include tokamak boundary plasma physics, turbulence and transport in fusion plasmas, and computational physics; he has more than 100 refereed publications in these areas.

Ph.D., Plasma Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000

M.Sc., Plasma Physics and Chemistry, Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology, 1993

• M.V. Umansky, "Analysis of high-field side plasma instabilities in tokamak edge", arXiv preprint 2409.12329, submitted to Nuclear Materials and Energy (2024).
• M.V. Umansky, R.D. Smirnov, W.R. Elwasif, and S.I. Krasheninnikov, "Modelling of edge plasma dynamics with active wall boundary conditions", Contributions to Plasma Physics e202100156 (2022).
• M.V. Umansky, B. LaBombard, D. Brunner, T. Golfinopoulos, A. Q. Kuang, M.E. Rensink, J.L. Terry, M. Wigram, and D.G. Whyte. “Study of passively stable, fully detached divertor plasma regimes attained in innovative long-legged divertor configurations”, Nuclear Fusion 60 016004, 2020.
• M.V. Umansky and D. D. Ryutov. “Toroidally symmetric plasma vortex at tokamak divertor null point”. Physics of Plasmas 23(3), 2016.
• M.D. Campanell and M.V. Umansky “Strongly Emitting Surfaces Unable to Float below Plasma Potential”, Physical Review Letters 116, 085003, 2016.
• M.V. Umansky, A.M. Dimits, I. Joseph, J.T. Omotani, and T.D. Rognlien, “Modeling of tokamak divertor plasma for weakly collisional parallel electron transport”, Journal of Nuclear Materials 463:506–509, 2015.
• M.V. Umansky, D. Brunner, B. LaBombard, and T.D. Rognlien. “Modeling of Local Edge Plasma Perturbations Induced by a Biased Probe”, Contributions to Plasma Physics 52(5): 417– 423, 2012.
• M.V. Umansky, P. Popovich, T.A. Carter, B. Friedman, and W.M. Nevins, “Numerical simulation and analysis of plasma turbulence the Large Plasma Device”, Physics of Plasmas 18(5), 2011.
• B.D. Dudson, M.V. Umansky, X. Q. Xu, P.B. Snyder, and H.R. Wilson. "BOUT++: A framework for parallel plasma fluid simulations", Computer Physics Communications 180(9):1467, 2009.
• M.V. Umansky. “On ideal stability of cylindrical localized interchange modes”, Contributions to Plasma Physics 47(6):447–450, 2007.