Dr. Moyer's research is focused on understanding the physics of several instabilities that are critically important for ITER and other next-step tokamaks, with the goal of developing actuators to suppress or mitigate the consequences of these events. He studies the plasma stability and transport processes that control the edge and boundary of high performance, magnetically confined plasmas, including: plasma turbulence and fluctuation-driven transport, plasma rotation and radial electric field shear, L-mode to H-mode confinement transitions, turbulence suppression and transport barriers, edge localized modes (ELMs), and control of ELMs via resonant magnetic perturbations or pellet pacing.