S. Sudo

Shigeru Sudo received the Dr. Sci. degree in plasma physics from Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1977. After postdoctoral work with the Institute of Plasma Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, he joined the Institute of Plasma Physics, Max-Planck-Institute (IPP-MPI), Garching, Germany, in 1977, and was a Junior Staff Member from 1979 to 1980. In 1980, he joined Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, and he engaged in the Thomson scattering diagnostics and pellet injection for the Heliotron E project. Since 1992, he has been with the Large Helical Device Project at the National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Japan, where he is currently developing the tracer-encapsulated pellet diagnostics method. Dr. Sudo is the Deputy Director-General of the National Institute for Fusion Science.