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DIFFER researcher and group leader Beata Tyburska-Pueschel has been appointed as a parttime associate professor Material Science and Engineering at TU Delft. As of this summer, she will combine her work at DIFFER in Eindhoven with the professorship at the university in Delft.

Forty years of working on nuclear fusion research: what’s that like? How has fusion research changed over the years, looking at the progress that has been made and the technological developments that are taking off? Now that his retirement has come, it’s time for DIFFER’s former department head Egbert Westerhof to reflect on his career in fusion.

DIFFER has appointed Matthijs van Berkel as the new head of the institute’s Fusion Energy department. As of August 2026, the current group leader Energy Systems and Control will succeed Egbert Westerhof, who will retire this summer.

At TU/e and DIFFER, researchers are developing intelligent materials labs and autonomous experimentation to accelerate breakthroughs in energy, semiconductors, healthcare, and sustainable technologies.

Research project ‘SaltCat: Can seawater impurities improve hydrogen catalysis?’ receives funding from NWO as part of the Open Competition Domain Science-XS package 26-2. At DIFFER, researcher dr. Nabil Khossossi aims to identify whether specific seawater ions and catalyst combinations can improve hydrogen production.