Ivan Vargas-Blanco

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Full Name	Ivan Vargas-Blanco
Occupation	Researcher
Date Of Birth	Mar 24, 1973(1973-03-24)
Age	51
Birthplace	Alajuela
Country	Costa Rica
Birth City	Alajuela Province
Horoscope	Aries

Ivan Vargas-Blanco Biography

Ivan Vargas-Blanco is one of the most popular and richest Researcher who was born on March 24, 1973 in Alajuela, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica.

Vargas-Blanco completed his secondary school studies at the Colegio Técnico Profesional Agropecuario de Aguas Zarcas in San Carlos, Alajuela. He had three kilometers daily walks followed by a one-hour truck ride to reach the school. There, he founded a scientific club and participated in The National Fairs of Science and Technology, earning several awards of merit including first place at a national level in 1989. His project received a perfect score.

The University of Costa Rica accepted Ivan Vargas-Blanco to its undergraduate program majoring in physics in 1991. One year later, concerned about the practicality of pursuing a career in physics, he switched his major to Electrical Engineering. However, the young undergraduate’s doubts were short lived. By year three he returned to a major in physics, even though the family could no longer support the studies because of economic limitations.

Ivan Vargas-Blanco Net Worth

Ivan Vargas-Blanco is one of the richest Researcher from Costa Rica. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ivan Vargas-Blanco 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ivan Vargas-Blanco (born March 24, 1973 in Alajuela, Costa Rica) is Costa Rican plasma and nuclear fusion physicist. He is renowned for his work in plasma physics and nuclear fusion. Currently, as a professor and tenured researcher at the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC), he heads the Plasma Laboratory for Fusion Energy and Applications that he founded in 2011.

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Working towards his goals in plasma research, Vargas-Blanco founded in 2008 the Grupo de Plasmas y Aplicaciones in the Tecnologico de Costa Rica (TEC), and began the purchase and acquisition of scientific equipment. In 2009, the Project Stellarator of Costa Rica 1 (SCR-1) was launched with a group of enthusiastic students. The aim was to build the first device of its kind in Latin America. Since the creation of the Plasma Laboratory for Fusion Energy and Applications in 2011, coordinator Vargas-Blanco has promoted seventeen research projects in fusion, plasmas and their applications for Costa Rican medical, agricultural and industrial uses. These projects got the attention of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States compelling them to donate a spherical tokamak, known as a MEDUSA (Madison Education Small Aspect Ratio, now known as MEDUSA-CR), to Tecnologico de Costa Rica, thus turning the university into one of the few in the world boasting both a Stellarator and a spherical tokamak.

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Jacob Ranked on the list of most popular Researcher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Costa Rica. Ivan Vargas-Blanco celebrates birthday on March 24 of every year.

By 2001, grad student Ivan Vargas-Blanco was hired as a Professor at the Tecnológico de Costa Rica, then in 2002 was awarded a two-year doctoral scholarship from the Instituto de Acustica del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain. During his second year in Spain, Vargas-Blanco was accepted into the PhD program in Plasma and Nuclear Fusion at Complutense University of Madrid, entering into the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), where the Laboratorio Nacional de Fusion is located. It was here that Vargas-Blanco developed his doctoral thesis project on local plasma transport in magnetic confinement devices. Once the two-year scholarship was over, Vargas-Blanco once again had to find gainful employment to finish his studies. Never to give up on his dreams for a career in physics, he got a scholarship from the Ministerio de Educación de España and his doctoral studies were completed on June 26, 2008.