Doctoral researcher
nastasija.petkovic@ugent.be
Nastasija Petkovic has a bachelor's degree in Theoretical and Experimental Physics and a
master’s degree in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics (FUSION-EP). During her
master’s studies, she gained hands-on experience through fusion-related internships at
CEA Cadarache, IPP Prague, and Jean Lamour Institute Nancy, along with summer school
at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald.
At the moment, she is doing a joint PhD with Czech Technical University in Prague, where
her thesis focuses on the characterization of divertor fluctuations and finding a link between
divertor and SOL midplane fluctuations in COMPASS tokamak.