Prof Dmitri Uzdensky

I am a theoretical plasma physicist and astrophysicist. My scientific interest range from complex collective processes like magnetic reconnection, turbulence, and various instabilities in extreme relativistic radiative plasma environments around black holes and neutron stars, to magnetic confinement fusion, to laser-plasma interactions. 

I received my Master's Degree in 1993 at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and then my PhD in Astrophysical Sciences (Program in Plasma Physics) at Princeton University in 1998.  After postdoctoral appointments at the University of Chicago's Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics (1998-2001) and at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) in Santa Barbara (2001-2004), I returned to Princeton as an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences (2004-2009).  In 2009 I joined the Physics faculty at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016 and Full Professor in 2021. I served as Director of the Center for Integrated Plasma Studies (CIPS) at the University of Colorado from 2017 until 2023. In the 2016-2017 academic year, while on a sabbatical from CU Boulder, I held the position of Junior Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton. In 2024 I moved to the University of Oxford where I am now a Professor at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics.