Assoc. Prof. Huibin Qiu, Nanchang University, China

Huibin Qiu, Ph.D. in Physics, M.S. Supervisor, Ganjiang Young Scholar. He has published 16 papers as first/corresponding author in Phys. Rev. E, Sci. Rep., Phys. Plasmas, Physica A and other journals, all of which were indexed by SCI; authorized/published 7 national/international/USA invention patents; published 1 educational reform paper; supervised 1 excellent thesis; is a reviewer of international journals Astrophys. Space Sci., Phys. Plasmas, Physica A, and Nuclear Fusion and Plasma Physics, and a lifetime member of the Chinese Physical Society. He joined the Department of Physics of Nanchang University in June 2017, and is a key member of Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Fusion and Information Control and a key member of the Nanchang Spherical Tokamak (NCST). It is a great physical challenge to achieve controlled nuclear fusion in magnetic confinement tokamak and solve energy shortage problem for decades. In tokamak plasma, large-scale plasma instability called disruption will halt power production of reactor and damage key components. Prediction and prevention of plasma disruption is extremely urgent and important. However, there is no analytical theory can elucidate plasma disruption physical mechanism until Qiu et al. published the work titled “Initial analytical theory of plasma disruption and experimental evidence” [Scientific Reports, 2023, 13(1): 9551]. In that work, Qiu et al. show an analytical theory of tokamak plasma disruption based on nonextensive geodesic acoustic mode theory, which can give the physical mechanism of disruption. The proposed theory has not only been confirmed by experimental data of disruption on T-10 device, but also can explain many related phenomena around plasma disruption, filling the gap in physical mechanism of tokamak plasma disruption.