[5] Early in his career, Boedo investigated the role of externally imposed electric fields on tokamak plasmas and the corresponding velocity shear in the suppression of turbulence.
Until then, the observed effect of velocity shear on reducing turbulence was consistent with theoretical expectations, but causality had not been demonstrated.
[8] Boedo investigated the effect that injected impurities on tokamak plasmas in producing enhanced energy confinement, known as the I-mode.
[9] Boedo has also done pioneering work on the role of flows and drifts in the edge, SOL (scrape-off layer), and divertor of tokamaks.
[12] As theoretical understanding of the subject improves,[13] Boedo has continued to research the topic,[14] particularly on the scaling of intermittent transport with plasma parameters.
[15] Boedo also developed tools to study and characterize Edge Localized Modes (ELMs) at high time resolution.