Richard Buttery

Richard John Buttery is a British-American theoretical plasma physicist and the director of the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics. He is an elected fellow of the Institute of Physics

Following his graduation, Buttery joined the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, where he worked at the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) and the Joint European Torus (JET) for 16 years until 2009. In that year, Buttery relocated to the United States and joined General Atomics as a program planning coordinator for the DIII-D National Fusion Facility. In 2012, Buttery became the Director for Experimental Science and has been leading the DIII-D scientific team ever since.