Anne Elisabeth White is an American plasma physicist whose research focuses on magnetic confinement fusion, particularly on measuring turbulence in the flow of plasma in a tokamak, and on the comparison of experimental results to simulations based on gyrokinetics.
[5] She joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2009, and was named head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering in 2019.
[5] She held that position until 2023, until being named as associate vice president for research administration.
[6] White was the 2014 recipient of the Katherine Weimer Award for Women in Plasma Science of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, given "for fundamental contributions to the understanding of turbulent transport in tokamaks through development and application of electron cyclotron emission diagnostics and insightful comparison of plasma fluctuations with gyrokinetic simulation predictions".
[8] She was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2019, "for outstanding contributions and leadership in understanding turbulent electron heat transport in magnetically confined fusion plasmas via diagnostic development, novel experimentation, and validation of nonlinear gyrokinetic codes".