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...
19 January 2012
On Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 January, over 1800 physicists gathered for the biggest physics conference in the Netherlands: Physics@FOM 2012 in Veldhoven. The annual conference is the place to see...
21 December 2011 Ir. Gert Witvoet has developed smart control strategies for the so-called sawtooth instability, an always present 'hiccup' in the hot plasma of a nuclear fusion reactor. The frequency of the...
13 December 2011
Dr. Toine van den Bogaard successfully defended his PhD thesis on 13 December at Twente University. As a PhD-student at the Rijnhuizen Nanolayer Surface and Interface Physics department he investigated...
28 October 2011
In future fusion reactors, erosion and re-deposition of wall materials by the hot fusion plasma is a big concern. Scientists at FOM Rijnhuizen have studied in detail how erosion and re-deposition of carbon...
24 October 2011
Dr Anouk Rijs of the Molecular Dynamics group at FOM Rijnhuizen will be appointed as Joliot-Curie Fellow at the Dutch Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen starting 1 January 2012. This Fellowship gives talented and...
13 October 2011
On Wednesday 12 October Bart Hennen of the Tokamak Physics Group successfully defended his PhD thesis Feedback control for magnetic island suppression in tokamaks at Eindhoven University of...
11 October 2011
The new experiment Magnum-PSI of the Dutch Institute for Plasma Physics FOM Rijnhuizen produced its first magnetised plasma beam on 4 October. Magnum-PSI is the first facility to expose materials to hot,...
15 September 2011
At the surface of the sun, prominences are constantly developing. These arches of magnetised plasma continuously float through the rarefied solar atmosphere due to magnetic forces. A prominence is...
12 September 2011
On 12 September Thijs Versloot of the Rijnhuizen Plasma Diagnostics group succesfully defended his PhD thesis, titled Edge rotation and momentum transport in JET fusion plasmas, in the main...
6 September 2011 After an 18-month shutdown to upgrade the machine and four months of commissioning, the Joint European Torus (JET), the world’s largest magnetic fusion device, is ready to start new experiments. The...
24 August 2011 At the Netherlands' largest music festival in August, the 55.000 visitors expect more than just great music. This year, they were treated to visions of a sustainable future at the floating LLowlab science...
18 August 2011
Rijnhuizen director Prof.dr.ir. Richard van de Sanden has been appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) for the period 1 July 2011 – 30 June 2014. The...
16 August 2011
Dr.ir. Juergen Rapp, head of the Plasma Surface Interactions division (PSI) at FOM-Rijnhuizen, has accepted a position at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in the US, starting August 15th. In his role as plasma...
On Thursday 7 July, the Foundation FOM and the Radboud University Nijmegen signed an agreement about the relocation in 2012 of the free electron lasers FELIX and FELICE from the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics to Nijmegen. The Radboud University...
6 July 2011
The Fusion Road Show of the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen will be presented at Lowlands 2011 during three days. From 19 till 21 August people from the institute will tell the story of fusion...
22 June 2011
Researchers from the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen have provided more clarity about the stability of carbocations. They did this by determining the structure of one of these organic ions with the...
6 June 2011
This week, the Intelligent Community Forum announced the 2011 ICF most intelligent community during its annual awards ceremony at Steiner Film Studios in Brooklyn, New York (USA). Eindhoven made ICF’s...
10 May 2011
Professor Nynke Dekker has been appointed as a member of the Executive Board of FOM with effect from 1 January 2012 and will join the Governing Board of FOM with effect from 1 June 2011. She succeeds Professor...
21 February 2011
The Executive Board of the FOM foundation has started two FOM focus groups on fundamental energy research in Amsterdam and Groningen. The focus group headed by prof.dr. Kees Hummelen will work on...
31 January 2011
On Friday February 4th the Japanese National Institute for Fusion Sciences and the Dutch fusion-center FOM-Rijnhuizen will sign an agreement to cooperate in the development of nuclear fusion as a clean,...
Monday 31 January
On Friday 28 January, prof.dr. Tony Donné, head of the Rijnhuizen Fusion Physics division, gave his inauguration lecture at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Read the text of...
17 December 2010
A world first, researchers of the FOM institutes AMOLF and Rijnhuizen have produced a hologram of an atom using its own electrons. To achieve this, the physicists used the unique properties of the...
4 November 2010
The open house days of the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics in Nieuwegein were well visited this year. The students' open day on Thursday October 14th drew 315 visitors from 10 different high schools,...
The Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) and Radboud University Nijmegen signed an initial agreement this week for the relocation and funding of the laser facility FELIX/FELICE from...
30 September 2010
FOM has appointed Prof. Richard van de Sanden as director of the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen with effect from 1 January 2011.
23 August 2010
Between 20 and 22 August, over 55.000 music fans visited Lowlands, the Netherlands' largest music festival. On the floating LLowlab-stage, they found the Fusion Road Show, the fusion outreach activity of FOM...
19 July 2010
The Foundation FOM has awarded the FOM Valorisation Prize 2010 to Prof.dr. Fred Bijkerk (FOM Institute Rijnhuizen and the MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology, UT).
9 July 2010
Dr. Marco de Baar has been appointed part-time professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. Starting 1 September, De Baar will investigate 'Control and Operation of Tokamaks' at the department of Mechanical...
7 July 2010
The Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) and Eindhoven Technical University signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the relocation of the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen to the...
24 June 2010
The remarkable ability of an electron to exist in two places at once has been controlled in the most common electronic material - silicon - for the first time. The research findings - published in Nature by a...
15 June 2010
On Friday 11 June, Rijnhuizen's Hans Goedbloed and his colleagues Stefaan Poedts and Rony Keppens presented their new book "Advanced Magnetohydrodynamics - With Applications to Laboratory and Astrophysical...
9 June 2010
The Ministry of Economic Affairs has granted the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) funds from the budget of Collective Promotional Activities (CPA) to help organise the Holland@CERN event....
23 March 2010
The FOM Executive Board has indicated its preference for Eindhoven Technical University as a possible new location for the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen. The institute will be expanded to become...
5 March 2010
Researchers of the FOM Institute Rijnhuizen and German colleagues have resolved the structure of a molecule in which the atoms constantly change places. The 'chemical chameleon' CH5+ is a model...
11 Februari 2010
Dr. Tony Donné, head of the Fusion Physics department at Rijnhuizen, has been appointed part-time professor at Eindhoven Technical University. He will investigate Diagnostics of Fusion Plasmas at the...
1 December 2009
The FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen has received a SenterNovem EOS-NEO grant ('Energie Onderzoek Subsidie - Nieuw Energie Onderzoek') of €100.000 for research on cheap metal oxide...
30 November 2009
The FOM Valorisation Chapter Prize, which will be awarded for the first time in Januari 2010, will be conferred to dr. Tim Tsarfati. He receives the prize for the last chapter of his PhD thesis "...
25 November 2009
A Dutch research programme lead by dr. Tony Donné of the FOM Institute Rijnhuizen will investigate the properties of high temperature fusion plasmas. Hot fusion plasmas of 150 million degrees...
The FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen has received an FO male/female stimulation grant from the FOM Foundation, to retain the Veni award winner Dr Anouk Rijs on staff. A sum of over € 200,...
Researchers from FOM-Rijnhuizen have refined the calibration of the standard procedure to measure wall erosion in future fusion reactors. Ph.D. student Jeroen Westerhout discovered that the calibration...
In 1959, the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen was founded to become the Dutch home base for research into fusion energy. Fifty years later, Rijnhuizen is a succesfull and divers research institute...
30 September 2009
Researchers of the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen have shown that the solvent used in ElectroSpray Ionisation (ESI), a commonly used...
18 September 2009 A group of researchers from Rijnhuizen, together with colleagues from Denmark and Germany, has discovered that so-called magnetic islands in fusion reactors can reflect microwaves. Their result was...
8 September 2009
The FOM Board of Governors has appointed Professor Niek Lopes Cardozo as the new Chairman of the Board of Governors and of the Executive Board of FOM. In addition, the Governing Board of the Netherlands...
25 augustus 2009
The FOM Executive Board has appointed Professor Wim van Saarloos (1955) Director of FOM Foundation, effective 1 November 2009. He succeeds Dr Hans Chang, who stepped down in early July after 24 years with...
5 August 2009
Minister Maria van der Hoeven (Economic Affairs) has announced that she is supporting ITER-NL2, the follow-up programme of ITER-NL, with 8 million euros from the so-called FES-budget (Fonds Economische...
29 July 2009
On the Nature-website, physicist Bob Nagler (Oxford University) and his international colleagues present a breakthrough in the field of non-linear optics.
15 July 2009
Dr. Jos Oomens has been appointed professor of Action Spectroscopy by special appointment of the Stichting Physica. His research at the Amsterdam University's Faculty of Science will focus on Action...
14 July 2009
On Friday, July 10th, the permanent Rijnhuizen delegation said goodbye to their colleagues at the Jülich TEXTOR-tokamak. Researchers from Rijnhuizen did experiments at Jülich since the late '80s.
23 June 2009
Researchers and engineers at the Dutch FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen have reached the second major milestone in the construction of the plasma wall experiment Magnum-PSI. They completed the...
25 May 2009
Dutch researchers from the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen and the Technical University Eindhoven have successfully tested a new system to keep instabilities in future fusion reactors in check. Their...
29 April 2009
"Very good to excellent" is how an international external evaluation panel, chaired by prof. dr. Friedrich Wagner (director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics), judged the FOM Institute...
16 April 2009
Prof.dr. Niek Lopes Cardozo, head of the Fusion Physics department at FOM-Rijnhuizen, is leaving the institute to assume a full professorship at Eindhoven Technical University (TU/e).
3 April 2009
Also this year the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen organizes open houses for students and for the public. The open house for students takes place on Thursday 15 October 2009. The public open house...
31 March 2009
Although biologically relevant molecules are widely studied by mass spectrometry, many fundamental questions regarding their gas-phase structure remain, even for the simplest bio-active molecules. Using the...
26 February 2009
The completion of Magnum-PSI's vacuum system attracted quite some publicity. On Monday, February 23th, the Dutch science radio show Hoe?Zo! (Teleac) broadcasted interviews with Wim Koppers, Amy Shumack and...
10 February 2009
Post-doctoral researcher dr. Jan-Willem Blokland of the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, the Dutch centre for fusion research, has received one of the ten prestigious Fusion Research Fellowships...
4 February 2009
An international group of researchers including prof.dr. Wybren Jan Buma from the University of Amsterdam and dr. Anouk Rijs of the FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen have published detailed...
28 January 2009
Researchers and engineers of the FOM Institute Rijnhuizen have recently completed the vacuum system of the new plasma-wall-experiment Magnum-PSI and have found that it behaves exactly as designed. According...
16 December 2008
If you visited our Open House on October 19th, you were probably amazed by the enormous crowds of people visiting the Institute. Careful observers also saw a student with a handheld camera walking around....
International cooperation with Russion institutes will investigate fundamentals of fusion 18 November 2008
The Dutch government, via funding agency NWO, has awarded Rijnhuizen a 500 k€ Centre of...
3 November 2008
Thursday 30th of October a teaching module on nuclear fusion for secondary school pupils was certified by the Dutch Ministry of Education. This assures that the module will now become part of a new subject...
30 September 2008
Where does energy come from, how does our use of energy impact our environment and how will we meet our energy needs in the future? In the recent Dutch translation of his book Energy, powering your world,...
1 August 2008
Scientists from Germany, Canada and The Netherlands have studied tiny gold nanoparticles, so-called clusters, and found them to have fascinating arrangements of their constituent atoms. For example, twenty...
23 July 2008
The KSTAR, a fully superconducting tokamak device with advanced Nb3Sn superconducting technology, has come a long way with all critical aspects resolved and successfully tested after "assembly completion...
19 June 2008
The report contains an overview of events of the last year, a discussion of the most important scientific results and a "visitors guide", i.e. a chapter that describes the scope of all scientific and...
18 June 2008
The ITER Organisation announced on 18 June that the programme and planning of the ITER nuclear fusion experiment have been rescheduled. The new schedule expects the ITER experiment to begin in 2018, a change of...
18 June 2008
Rijnhuizen PhD Ivo Classen is awarded the 2008 EPS Plasma Physics Division PhD Research Award for his thesis entitled 'Imaging and Control of Magnetic Islands in Tokamaks'. The price was awarded during the...
29 May 2008
Tuesday May 20th Rijnhuizen was host to a group of around 30 presenters of physics shows from all over the Netherlands. The Regional Benelux group of the EuroPhysicsFun network (EPF), of which Rijnhuizen’s...
18 April 2008
Fusion for Energy (F4E), the organization for Europe's contribution to ITER, unlocks new business opportunities for industry by launching its first ever procurement.
18 April 2008
Researchers at the Universiteit van Amsterdam together with colleagues from the United States, Scotland and Italy have now developed a molecular template that applies a specific shape to the molecule they want...
Professor Niek Lopez Cardozo gave the opening speech 11 March 2008
Over seven hundred high school students from all over the world got together in New York on 6-7 March for an annual student UNIS (United...
21 February 2008
On Tuesday 19 February the Minister of Economic Affairs, Maria van der Hoeven, made a working visit to the site of the ITER nuclear fusion experiment, to which the Netherlands is an important contributor,...
14 February 2008 TU Delft has conferred an Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professorship on physicist Dr. Paul Planken. The Antoni van Leeuwenhoek chairs at TU Delft were created to promote outstanding scientists to the position of...
Within the STW Thin Film Nanomanufacturing program, a 4-year research project on multilayer optics 'beyond EUV' has been granted to FOM and the Solid State Physics/MESA+ Institute at the University of...
