… IEEE Outstanding Student Paper Prize (OSPP) for DIFFER researcher Chris Orrico Published on December 17, 2024 … MPC Strategies for Fueling and Density Control in Fusion Tokamaks’. The prize was presented by the technical …
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… Our research Within the Plasma Material Interactions group we … is currently among the key research topics in the nuclear fusion community. Here we approach this research question at … of the confined plasma in high-performance discharges in tokamaks. When they travel down the magnetic field lines …
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… EUROfusion Engineering Grant for Hari Varadarajan: “Energy … a fascination to me” Published on November 28, 2024 DIFFER researcher Hari Varadarajan receives a 2025 EUROfusion … his project ‘Cooperative control for fusion’. Plasma in a tokamak is rotating, it has some movement when it’s going …
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… Jonathan Citrin: “I want to help build the cathedral of fusion” Published on July 12, 2022 Jonathan Citrin, leader … in the area of nuclear fusion and the beauty of his research field. Jonathan Citrin. (c) Bram Lamers/DIFFER … reduced order turbulence models in the world, used for tokamak simulation. In addition, we develop its neural …
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… PhD defense: Thomas Bosman learned to control fusion exhaust in three shots Published on April 30, 2025 … heat load is too high for any material to handle. Fusion researchers want to manage the exhaust by puffing cooling … DIFFER, Bosman used the insight that while the underlying physics of the fusion exhaust may be complex, the way the …
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… PhD defense: Ray Chandra DIFFER PhD researcher Ray Chandra will defend his thesis Plasma exhaust for fusion reactors: numerical simulation and comparison with … for future fusion reactors. Ray Chandra investigated the physics governing the reduction of heat by the cold gas …
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… 2024 (3rd prize) Published on March 25, 2025 Postdoctoral researcher Lizan Kivits has won the prestigious DISC PhD … elements plays a crucial role in this process. Impact on fusion energy research For designing controllers for plasma in fusion energy, the dependencies between various …
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… Research Control of the heat and particle exhaust The extreme conditions in a nuclear fusion reactor result in high heat and particle loads on the … and control Particle injection is fundamental for tokamak operation and connects to many control problems …
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… edge of the plasma and its interaction with the divertor. Fusion reactions in the core of the plasma create large … on each other. The divertor plasma in the ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak The plasma can erode, transport and redeposit the … of the EUROfusion consortium, which comprises 30 fusion research organisations and universities from 26 European …
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… milestone in the relocation of this unique experiment for fusion wall materials. Magnum-PSI will be fully operational … Lamers / DIFFER Wall materials for an artificial sun Fusion research aims to turn the process which powers the sun into … and beyond. External users like ITER, the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab and the European Horizon2020 consortium for …
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… First Dutch Fusion Day in Eindhoven: ‘We need Dutchness to make fusion … like VDL, VNO-NCW, ASML, TNO, Next Step Fusion, Demcon and Plasma Matters BV. Image Visitors attending the first Dutch … is pursuing active engagement with relevant and interested research institutions and industries throughout Europe, …
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… Sixteen exceptional scientists receive the EUROfusion Bernard Bigot Researcher Grant Published on September 24, 2024 The … in positive and negative triangularity in spherical tokamaks Robert Davies (MPG, Germany) Novel exhaust …
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… EUROfusion Engineering Grant Thomas Blanken Published on May 07, … prestigious Engineering Grants awarded by the European research organisation EUROfusion. These grants support … "The topic I will look into is prevention of disruptions in tokamak fusion reactors by means of real-time monitoring and …
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… the director of the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research. "Over the past year, we detailed our ambitions in … with (inter)national academia and industry." Focus on Fusion Energy and Solar Fuels In the coming years, DIFFER … Sanden. "The theme brings together expertise in chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering. This will help …
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… energy DIFFER, the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research, works on a future in which clean energy will be … located in Eindhoven. Our research focuses on two themes: Fusion Energy and Chemical Energy . We host user facilities … that strike the reactor wall, and get to understand the physics of plasma instability and turbulence. Through the …
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