He is currently a professor at the University of California, San Diego,[1] and a director of the Fusion Theory Institute at the National Fusion Research Institute in Daejeon, South Korea, where the KSTAR Tokamak is operated.
[2] In 2011, Diamond was jointly awarded the Hannes Alfvén Prize with Akira Hasegawa and Kunioki Mima for important contributions to the theory of turbulent transport in plasmas.
[3][4] In addition to applications in controlled nuclear fusion, he also specializes in astrophysical plasmas.
[5] Diamond was raised in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, NY.
[1] In 2011, Diamond was awarded the Hannes Alfvén Prize by the European Physical Society for "laying the foundations of modern numerical transport simulations and key contributions on self-generated zonal flows and flow shear decorrelation mechanisms which form the basis of modern turbulence in plasmas".