Sajidah Ahmed

Sajidah Ahmed is a plasma physicist affiliated with the University of York and actively contributes to nuclear fusion research. Her work focuses on turbulent phenomena in magnetically confined fusion plasmas, particularly the dynamics of scrape-off layer (SOL) fluctuations and their impact on plasma-wall interactions.

• Doctoral research (2023) on Intermittent fluctuations in the boundary of magnetically confined fusion plasmas.
• Published studies in leading fusion journals on topics such as filament propagation, MHD instabilities, and pulse superposition modeling.

Research Highlights:
Her research addresses critical challenges for commercial fusion reactors, including:

• Characterizing blob-like turbulent structures in SOL regions.
• Reconstructing intermittent time series using deconvolution methods.
• Investigating density limits and plasma confinement in devices like Alcator C-Mod and MAST Upgrade.