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  • Council of the EU approves ITER financing

    … has taken the lead in this project. This international fusion energy project is a first-of-a kind long-term project … to build and operate a reactor to test the feasibility of fusion as an energy source. According to Commission … December 2025, with the full operation estimated in 2035. Fusion energy as a viable commercial energy source is not …
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  • Research

    … Research EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES   1. Development of complex … relation between geometry and PEC activity. The aim of this research is to give a further understanding on the … The formation of nanofuzz is a known phenomenon in fusion research due to plasma surface interaction caused by …
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  • Sharing knowledge

    … Sharing knowledge In addition to our fundamental research, we want to share our knowledge through courses, … addition, we offer PhD positions and internships for young researchers to develop their skills at our institute. PhD … Our researchers are eager to share their knowledge about fusion and chemical energy during lectures, conferences and …
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  • Aaron Ho wins prize with plasma podcast series

    … zu Kiel), have won the Rutherford Plasma Physics Communication Prize 2023. They receive the award for … other and with guests about their experiences in plasma research. The most recent episode is about women in science … (c) Still from YouTube. For students and experienced researchers Originally, Ho and Vialetto intended to create a …
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  • Photonics for Energy group moves to TU/e

    … and at different temporal and spatial scales . This research covers also applications from light harvesting and … Photonics group in the Photonics and Semiconductor Nanophysics capacity group of the Applied Physics department of TU/e . Prof. Jaime Gómez Rivas and his research group joined DIFFER from our sister institute AMOLF …
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  • Launching the Center for Computational Energy Research

    … Launching the Center for Computational Energy Research Published on June 21, 2017 On the longest day of the year the Center for Computational Energy Research (CCER) was officially opened. Scientific director … prof.dr. Frank Jenko (Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching), prof.dr. Evert Jan Meijer (Van 't Hoff …
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  • Dutch knowledge consortium for the development of molten salt reactors

    … has a (knowledge) infrastructure that is very suitable for research and development of innovative reactor technology … such as the MSR. TU Delft has been leading European research into thorium MSR for a number of years, and NRG/PALLAS in Petten has the necessary research facilities such as the High Flux (research) …
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  • Machine Learning for Control Oriented Models

    … reduction can result in a trade off with a decrease in physics fidelity. The challenge is thus to circumvent … bringing first-principle transport modelling into the tokamak control room. Applying these techniques in tokamak … a proof of principle [J.Citrin, S. Breton  et al.,  Nucl. Fusion 55 092001 (2015)] based on a 4D input dimension scan. …
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  • First materials analysis in Ion Beam Facility

    … energy materials. The ion beam facility will supply researchers from fusion, solar fuels and other materials sciences with unique … to investigate for the first time the unique chemistry, physics, and materials science which determines device …
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  • PhD defense: Michele Marin

    … PhD defense: Michele Marin DIFFER PhD-researcher Michele Marin will defend his thesis titled … is essential to predict and inform the control of the fusion burn. Multiple impurities will unavoidably be present … it within integrated modelling, identifying the crucial physics underlying the observations and validating it with …
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  • Marco de Baar appointed for second term as DIFFER director: “Connection at an early stage accelerates innovations”

    … de Baar in DIFFER's control room, a central spot within the research institute © DIFFER/Bart van Overbeeke Can you give … new group leaders." Developments in the world of nuclear fusion are moving fast. More and more commercial parties are … for chemical materials (Self Driving Lab) and an autonomous tokamak. We are taking the first steps for both …
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  • Multi-scale modeling grant to better understand artificial leaves

    … Published on April 20, 2017 In a newly granted European research project together with scientists from the … transform energy from sunlight into clean fuels, four research institutes (DIFFER and TU Delft, NL; Universidad … processes, like rearrangement of water molecules. Diffusion processes on the surface or in the electrolyte are …
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  • NWO KLEIN grant for Paola Diomede

    … Diomede (DIFFER) has been awarded an NWO-KLEIN grant for research on the conversion of molecules into valuable … is head of the DIFFER research group Computational Plasma Physics and Chemistry (CPPC). She develops and uses … more efficient plasma conversion from vibrational energy diffusion modelling, Paola Diomede, DIFFER NWO KLEIN Research …
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  • Reduction of the impact on reactor wall seen in Magnum-PSI

    … of a publication which was recently accepted by Nuclear Fusion . Jonathan van den Berg is a PhD student in the Plasma Edge Physics and Diagnostics group at DIFFER. Recent experiments … away from the wall. These results are relevant to fusion reactors like ITER, which is being built in southern …
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  • Design students turn ion beam facility into artwork

    … will be space for DIFFER's logo and for posters about the research it facilitates. The Ion Beam Facility is one of DIFFER's proverbial business cards. The device allows researchers from within and out of DIFFER to research new … conducts leading fundamental research in the fields of fusion energy and solar fuels. DIFFER ( www.differ.nl ) …
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