[1][2] He received the 2014 John Dawson Award[3] and the 2016 Hannes Alfvén Prize[4] for successfully demonstrating that neoclassical tearing modes in tokamaks can be stabilized by electron cyclotron resonance heating,[5][6] which is an important design consideration for pushing the performance limit of the ITER.
[1][2] Zohm is currently at the Max Planck Institute for Physics, and an Honorary Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
[7] Zohm received his doctorate in 1990 from Heidelberg University and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany.
He has been a scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics since 1999 and heads the Tokamak scenario research area.
With his department at the ASDEX Upgrade (and JET),[8] he researches plasma states (tokamak scenarios), energy dissipation, particle control including the removal of helium ash and the control of edge instabilities (edge localized modes) for optimal operation of ITER and DEMO.