Dr. Jacob King is a computational plasma physicist specializing in the development of algorithms for high-performance fusion simulations. His expertise spans a wide array of confinement concepts, including tokamaks, z-pinches (both fast liner implosion and slow millisecond scales), compact toroids, coaxial Marshall guns, mirrors, and reversed-field pinches.

Dr. King’s work integrates analytic theory, code verification, and nonlinear 3D dynamics. He focuses on the dual nature of plasma instabilities: identifying those that threaten confinement and must be suppressed, versus those that can be harnessed to flush impurities and enable steady-state operation.

A key contributor to the field's computational infrastructure, Dr. King extended the NIMROD MHD code to include resistive walls, refined initial conditions, and multiple atomic species. He also developed a time-split plasma-neutral algorithm to integrate fast atomic physics into long-duration MHD simulations. Currently, he is modernizing code for open-source use on GPU-accelerated supercomputers.

Dr. King earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He previously served as the Fusion Science Group Leader at Tech-X Corporation and is now a Partner and Senior Research Scientist at Fiat Lux.