… 3D-printed prototype holders for liquid metal in DIFFER's research facility Magnum-PSI and discovered that a … out. Using a smart geometry made it possible to avoid any material stresses due to heating and expansion. "This is … highly promising", thinks Peter Rindt: "in a fusion reactor material properties degrade faster than anywhere else, due …
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… current approaches are either using scarce and expensive materials and have limited compatibility with an … electricity supply of renewables, such as wind or solar energy.” AEM (anion exchange membrane) electrolysers … “Personally I am driven to find solutions for challenges in society. This project is a bridge between …
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… rely so much on fossil resources for their energy and raw materials? The Dutch ECCM conference on 26 June 2020 brought … materials. The big challenge is therefore to produce these fuels and chemical products via renewable electricity, … Education, Culture and Science (OCW) and the Dutch National Research Agenda (NWA). ECCM is the cross-sectoral theme to …
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… DIFFER Seminar: Integrated modelling of tokamak plasmas: … progress towards fast control-oriented frameworks, and challenges towards ITER operation. Attend this seminar? Use the registration form to attend . Abstract : … predictions relying on unverified reduced models. This seminar we review the state-of-the-art in integrated …
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… Driven to accelerate energy materials discovery Published on November 11, 2025 “The ultimate dream is to accelerate the discovery of new materials for the energy transition by combining artificial … realising a self-driving lab to accelerate renewable energy research. A self-driving lab is an automated laboratory that …
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… physics community leading to structural change in the research institutes. ‘AMOLF aims to have 25% of its … evaluation by an external gender expert institute (Joanneum Research, Austria) have set the starting point to design … a common framework to promote gender equality in European research organizations operating in the field of physics. …
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… Unique test facility into resistant materials for nuclear reactor officially launched Published … DIFFER Irradiation-Corrosion Experiment), they will develop materials resistant to the combination of heat, salt and … from the ion beam and the flowing salt", explains DIFFER researcher and project leader Beata Tyburska-Pueschel. She …
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… Wijkamp, photo Bart van Overbeeke Award Ceremony DIFFER researcher Wijkamp feels honored to receive the Shell … Wijkamp did a one-year graduation project at DIFFER. His research field was diagnostics in fusion research. A hurdle for commercial fusion reactor is the …
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… DIFFER Seminar: Optimizing fusion power plant design with … models to address the intricate physics and engineering challenges critical to achieving net electric power … power plants. Some time ago, in 2016, I was at DIFFER for a research internship focused on creating a zero-dimensional …
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… underscores DIFFER's commitment to conduct fundamental research on materials, processes, and systems for a sustainable global … grid. The road to a tokamak like ARC has several major challenges, for example on controlling the heat load on the … DIFFER's commitment to conduct fundamental research on materials, processes, and systems for a sustainable global …
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… DIFFER Seminar: Soccer, physics modelling, social habits and COVID … they are very diverse, which at the same time poses extreme challenges on the modelling of pandemic spread under a … from the University of Hamburg in 2004, then worked at a research associate at the BaBar experiment at the Stanford …
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… Berkel is group leader of the Energy Systems and Control research group, which develops system identification … transport coefficients. Science is less unique than many researchers think. Only by nature, people have something of … was a fantastic time. I really wanted to go back, and PhD research seemed to be a handy way of achieving that. Making …
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… DIFFER Seminar: Terahertz Integrated Photonics with Nonlinear Materials Attend this seminar? Use the registration form … frequencies. After Graduation, Shima was a postdoctoral researcher and fellow at EPF Lausanne and Harvard University … for classical and quantum applications on nonlinear material platforms. …
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… schedule due to extreme technical complexity and physical challenges. The development of a nuclear fusion reactor is … aimed at helping high-tech SMEs (MKBs) collaborate with research organisations on industrial R&D projects involving … of DIFFER to read more about the Integrated Modelling research group . Go to the News page. …
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… on the UK fusion machine MAST Upgrade and at the Dutch research institute DIFFER have made important progress in … realising fusion as a future energy source. Experiments of researchers in the UK and the Netherlands show that even … such a configuration and highlights the need for dedicated research in the coming years.¹ Image Figure 2. Upper-outer …
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