16 May 2012
Hector Alvaro Galue of the Molecular Dynamics research group successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Amsterdam on 16 May 2012. Alvaro Galue investigated the behaviour of complexe...
9 May 2012
The entire nanolayer Surface & Interface physics (nSI) department, headed by Professor Fred Bijkerk, which is currently located at FOM’s DIFFER institute in Nieuwegein, is to become part of the...
17 April 2012
On 16 April mr. Halbe Zijlstra, the Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, opened the new FOM Institute DIFFER in Nieuwegein. DIFFER is the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy...
11 April 2012
Showing how to spot and control growing turbulence in the plasma of a fusion reactor or tokamak won engineer Bart Hennen the 2012 thesis prize of the European Physical Society's Plasma Physics...
4 April 2012
In 2011, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) organised external evaluations of all its research institutes. From 28 to 30 September 2011, an evaluation panel lead by Professor Ron Parker...
21 March 2012
Creating hotter, denser plasmas than ever before: that's the goal of the new Magnum-PSI facility at FOM Institute DIFFER. On Thursday 22 March, the institute celebrated the start of Magnum-PSI's experimental...
21 March 2012
Prof.dr. Gerard Meijer will be appointed the new President of the Executive Board of Radboud University Nijmegen. He will succeed Roelof de Wijkerslooth de Weerdesteyn on 1 September 2012. 'The appointment of...
15 February 2012
In 2012 Rijnhuizen became the FOM Institute DIFFER (Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research) and embarked on its new mission of Science for Future Energy. To support new research activities and...
10 February 2012
Random isn't always random. PhD candidate Feng Liu of the EUV Lab group in DIFFER showed that the polarization of light is changed but not completely randomized after travelling through an optical fiber, as...
30 January 2012
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Jos Oomens of the FOM Institute Rijnhuizen a prestigious Vici grant. Oomens heads the Molecular Dynamics group at FOM-Rijnhuizen and is...
