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Hans van Eck is heading DIFFER's new Facilities & Instrumentation department. The department unites the research facilities that were partly under Fusion Energy and partly under Solar Fuels. A conversation about synergy, specialists, and guest researchers.

EUROfusion announces the selection of Ambrogio Fasoli as the new EUROfusion Programme Manager Elect by the EUROfusion General Assembly. His tenure will officially commence on 1 January 2024.

DIFFER is going to invest in new facilities for energy research and open these up to third parties more than ever. This is stated in the Strategy 2023 – 2028 which the institute presents today.

Two students from the Design Academy Eindhoven will spend the next few weeks transforming the gray six-meter-long and one-and-a-half-meter-wide tube of DIFFER's Ion Beam Facility into a true work of art. One side will have a cutaway like character with mainly purple and pink colors. Those colors are a reference to the colors of a plasma that is generated in the tube.

DIFFER postdoc Aaron Ho, together with former DIFFER Ph.D. student Luca Vialetto (now a postdoc in Germany at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel), have won the Rutherford Plasma Physics Communication Prize 2023. They receive the award for the podcast-style videos on their YouTube channel Coffee Breakdown.