Dr. Kwan Chul Lee | Nuclear Science | Research Excellence Award
Researcher | Korea Institute of Fusion Energy | South Korea
Dr. Kwan Chul Lee is a senior researcher at the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy, Daejeon, South Korea, specializing in fusion plasma diagnostics and experimental plasma physics. His expertise includes interferometry systems, electron density measurements, intrinsic plasma rotation, and high-temperature plasma regimes in tokamak devices, particularly KSTAR. He has authored 64 peer-reviewed publications, accumulating 1,310 citations with an h-index of 22, reflecting sustained impact in nuclear fusion research. His work includes contributions to high-profile journals such as Nature, Nuclear Fusion, and Review of Scientific Instruments. Lee collaborates extensively with international fusion research teams, supporting the advancement of controlled fusion energy, a field with significant long-term societal impact for clean, sustainable power generation.
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A sustained high-temperature fusion plasma regime facilitated by fast ions
– Nature, 2022. | Citations: 93
Multi-chord IR-visible two-color interferometer on KSTAR
– Review of Scientific Instruments, 2021. | Citations: 21
Development of the upgraded single crystal dispersion interferometer (SCDI-U) and first KSTAR measurements
– Nuclear Fusion, 2024. | Citations: 1
Intrinsic rotation of fusion plasmas induced by ion–neutral charge exchange
– Current Applied Physics, 2023.
Relation of pandemics with solar cycles through ozone, cloud seeds, and vitamin D
– Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023 | Citations: 2