Bruce Scott is a research plasma physicist having graduated with a Doctorate from the University of Maryland in 1985, and with the German Habilitation from the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf in 2001. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society with membership since 1979. He has several tens of first author papers in peer-reviewed journals in the field of theoretical plasma physics.

This book is the second of a two-volume set, providing a comprehensive fundamental introduction to gyrokinetic theory and gyrofluid turbulence.