Katarina is a physicist at Novatron Fusion Group, a Swedish start-up working to make fusion energy a reality. In the computation and theoretical physics team, she contributes to the design of the Novatron fusion concept — modelling and simulating how plasma behaves in the confining magnetic field, and exploring how strong electric fields can be used to improve confinement further.
Her background is unusually broad. She holds a PhD in experimental physics from CERN, where she searched for magnetic monopoles, before pivoting to neuroscience — first studying language, then consciousness and vision at Harvard and MIT. After two years applying machine learning in industry, she joined Novatron three years ago.
Katarina is an active science communicator. She has given numerous public talks, and for several years co-hosted a science podcast with a fellow physicist.
