Ludmila Krupnik

Lyudmyla Ivanivna Krupnik was born in 1929. She received the B.S. degree in experimental physics from the Physical and Technical Department, Kharkov State University, Kharkov, Ukraine, in 1952, and the Ph.D. degree from Kharkov State University in 1957, where her Ph.D. thesis was about atomic collisions and development of the negative ion source. She is a Ph.D. Leading Scientist. Since 1953, she has been with the Institute of Plasma Physics, National Scientific Center, “Kharkov Scientific Center of Physics and Technology,” Kharkov. Her main scientific areas of research work include atomic collisions (1950–1959), ion source and ion acceleration (1957–1960), plasma acceleration and fusion plasma diagnostics (1960–1967), and magnetic plasma confinement and beam probing diagnostics (1968–2007). Her areas of expertise are atomic collisions and fusion plasma diagnostics.