Dr. Pallavi Trivedi is a Computational Plasma Physicist at Theory department, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton University, USA.

She received her Ph.D. in 2019 from Homi Bhabha National Institute in India in the theoretical plasma physics conducted at the Plasma Device Theory & Simulation Division, Institute For Plasma Research, India. At IPR, her research was focused on the chirp dynamics assosiated with fast ion driven instabilities. Investigation aimed towards to understand the features of dynamics of wave-particles interaction such as excitation of electrostatic modes and phase space structures, at ion scales and electron scales in space plasma by analyzing both spacecraft data, solar wind observations and numerical results from kinetic or phase space simulations.

At PPPL, she is involved in the  “High-Fidelity Whole Device Modeling of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma” (HBPS) project, a part of the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project Whole Device Modelling (ECP WDMApp). Aim of this project is to provide a simulation framework able to model the whole device modelling of magnetically confined fusion plasma on the future Exascale supercomputers. Unlike current simulations, which model only part of the hot, charged plasma gas, the new simulations will display the physics of entire plasmas all at once. Her investigation focuses the Whole Device Modelling (WDM) for coupling core delta-f and edge total-f gyrokinetic models which will serve as a tool for understanding and predicting the H-mode of ITER and other future fusion facilities. This modelling could enable a significant speed-up of the whole device modeling simulations.