Prof. Mark J. Kushner

Mark J. Kushner is the William P. Allis Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan USA. He received the BS and BA in Nuclear Engineering and Astronomy from the University of California at Los Angeles; and the MS and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology. Prof. Kushner's research areas are computational investigations of low temperature plasmas and plasma surface interactions, their fundamental properties and technological applications, in which he has extensively published. Several of the reactor and feature scale models developed by his research group are actively used by the semiconductor industry. He has served on and chaired several US National Academies policy advising studies, including the 2020 Decadal Report on Plasma Science. Prof. Kushner has received several awards from professional societies and industry and is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.