Amelia joined the APAM Department at Columbia in Fall of 2022 and received the DOE Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship in 2023. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Physics in 2020 from Reed College in Portland, OR. She completed her undergraduate thesis developing a numerical method to approximate particle position in a magnetic mirror field, building a magnetic mirror machine around a pre-existing glow discharge experiment. Beginning in 2020 as a SULI student, Amelia worked at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory for two years, applying the gradient and Hessian matrix methods to determine the sensitivity of magnetic island chains in permanent magnet stellarators to perturbations in permanent magnet parameters. Amelia also spoke about the importance of diversity, inclusion, and outreach efforts in the fusion community at the White House Summit on Fusion Energy in March of 2022.
Amelia Chambliss
Ph.D. Student