Patrick H. Diamond

Patrick Henry Diamond is an American theoretical plasma physicist. He is currently a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and a director of the Fusion Theory Institute at the National Fusion Research Institute in Daejeon, South Korea, where the KSTAR Tokamak is operated.

In 2011, Diamond was jointly awarded the Hannes Alfvén Prize with Akira Hasegawa and Kunioki Mima for important contributions to the theory of turbulent transport in plasmas. In addition to applications in controlled nuclear fusion, he also specializes in astrophysical plasmas.

Early life and career
Diamond was raised in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, NY. He graduated St. Anselm’s Elementary School and Xavierian High School, both located in Bay Ridge Brooklyn, NY Diamond received his Ph.D. in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Honors and awards
In 1986, he was inducted a fellow of the American Physical Society. In 1988, he became a Sloan Research Fellow.

In 2011, Diamond was awarded the Hannes Alfvén Prize by the European Physical Society for "laying the foundations of modern numerical transport simulations and key contributions on self-generated zonal flows and flow shear decorrelation mechanisms which form the basis of modern turbulence in plasmas".