14 February 2013
The Dutch physics funding agency FOM has awarded dr. Jonathan Citrin of the FOM Institute DIFFER the fifth and last of its prestigious YES! Fellowships for Young Energy Scientists. Over the coming four years,...
8 February 2013
On 4 February 2013, prof.dr. Ger van Middelkoop unexpectedly passed away. Ger van Middelkoop chaired the Science Advisory Committee of DIFFER (previously Rijnhuizen) for many years and was very active...
16 January 2013
On Tuesday 15 January 2013 Willem Haverkort, PhD student at CWI and DIFFER, gave a twelve minute interview on the potential of fusion energy in...
14 January 2013
In December, Mikhail Ponomarev successfully defended his PhD thesis on plasma-deposited aluminum-doped zinc oxide at Eindhoven University of Technology. Ponomarev's first promotor Richard van de Sanden,...
11 January 2013 On 17 January 2013 research engineer Hans van Eck will defend his PhD thesis on design work for Magnum-PSI, the unique linear plasma generator at DIFFER. Magnum-PSI is the first laboratory experiment in the...
10 January 2013
Hit a material with an intense enough plasma pulse, and it starts protecting itself by ejecting a protective blanket in front of it. That result from PhD candidate Jakub Zieliński might be excellent news for...
20 December 2012
On 20 december 2012, plasma physicist Jonathan Citrin defended his PhD thesis "Turbulent Transport in Tokamak Advanced Scenarios" at Eindhoven University of Technology. The committee awarded him...
18 December 2012
On 19 December 2012 Rob Wieggers of the FOM Institute DIFFER will defend his PhD at Eindhoven University of Technology. Wieggers developed and validated a brand new computer model that can simulate the intense...
6 December 2012
"Large scale storage of clean energy via carbon capture and storage in CO2 neutral fuels could solve the energy storage problems of a sustainable world", says Hans Geerlings (Shell Global...
