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To harness fusion energy on Earth, the fusion research community builds experimental reactors that trap fusion fuel and heat it to over 150 million degrees Celsius. Protecting the reactor wall from this extreme heat is a major challenge. In his research, PhD researcher Gijs Derks developed models to manage the interaction of hot fuel with the wall.

How to store renewable electricity efficiently for later use is one of the major questions of our time. The recently awarded Growth Fund Circular Batteries project REDOX BLEND aims to develop a new class of batteries for day- to week-long storage.

On February 11 it’s the ‘International day of women and girls in science’. A perfect occasion to put Loes Jansen in the spotlights. Since the summer of 2024 Loes works as a PhD candidate in the Energy Systems and Control group at DIFFER’s Fusion Energy department. What do escape rooms have to do with her career?

Adelbert Goede (7 mei 1945 - 26 januari 2026)

Nuclear fusion and astrophysics are related fields. That these fields can learn from each other is demonstrated in a recent Nature publication co-authored by DIFFER researcher MJ Pueschel. Corresponding author Bindesh Tripathi links the mechanism of magnetic-field generation to a three-decades-old study of dynamo action in fusion plasmas, albeit giving a new interpretation.