Nirav Joshi

Nirav studied undergraduate physics at Bhavnagar University, India in 2002 subsequently joining the plasma diagnostics division at Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) - India’s national research institute on Nuclear Fusion. His major contribution here was determining plasma parameters, for example, temperature, density and plasma instabilities using diagnostics systems such as super-heterodyne microwave radiometer, microwave interferometer and correlation reflectometer.  Whilst working Nirav obtained his master’s degree in physics awarded by Annamalai University, India in 2007.

He has successfully designed, simulated, fabricated and tested various microwave components during which time he learnt to use various simulation software  including; HFSS, CST and ZEMAX,  as well as the operation of microwave instruments.   Nirav has contributed, as a main and contributory author, to various papers and presented his work at both national and international conferences. He has guided several summer school projects within his group, as lead and co-guide.

In March 2009, he became a DITANET trainee with the John Adams Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. His PhD centres on designing a prototype low-Q cavity Beam Position Monitor (BPM) system for the probing beam of the main Linac portion of CLIC-CERN facility.

Nirav’s main research interests include; high and low power microwave generation and its interaction with particles and application to measurement science, particle dynamics in accelerators and the study of plasma in nuclear fusion machines. In the field of technology, he is highly interested in microwave communication techniques and remote sensing, including hardware techniques in addition to software development.